Skip to main content

Table 1 Differences Between Intervention and Waitlist Control Group Participants on Baseline Characteristics

From: Testing a physical education-delivered autonomy supportive intervention to promote leisure-time physical activity in lower secondary school students: the PETALS trial

 

Total Sample

Intervention

Waitlist

Sig.

Students

N = 370

N = 174

N = 196

 

 Age, years

14.50 (0.69)

14.69 (0.62)

14.34 (0.71)

<.001

 Gender, n (%)

   

.358

  Boy

182 (49.19)

90 (51.72)

92 (46.94)

 

  Girl

188 (50.81)

84 (48.28)

104 (53.06)

 

 PA, minutes/week

  Total PA

1322.75 (822.09)

1244.46 (826.80)

1392.25 (813.68)

.046

  Vigorous PA

411.70 (344.87)

415.32 (354.90)

408.48 (336.59)

.970

  Moderate PA

437.74 (347.10)

427.41 (332.27)

446.92 (360.34)

.823

  Walking

473.31 (409.73)

401.73 (389.34)

536.85 (417.81)

.001

 PA, MET-minutes/week

  Total PA

6606.47 (4206.17)

6357.89 (4288.37)

6827.14 (4130.26)

.163

  Vigorous PA

3293.58 (2758.96)

3322.53 (2839.21)

3267.88 (2692.75)

.970

  Moderate PA

1750.98 (1388.38)

1709.66 (1329.09)

1787.66 (1441.38)

.823

  Walking

1561.91 (1352.10)

1325.71 (1284.82)

1771.60 (1378.76)

.001

 Perceived autonomy support

5.68 (0.89)

5.73 (0.82)

5.64 (0.95)

.343

Teachers

N = 29

N = 16

N = 13

 

 Age, years

42.83 (9.53)

42.13 (9.77)

43.69 (9.54)

.668

 Teaching experience, years

15.21 (9.48)

14.81 (10.09)

15.69 (9.04)

.809

 Provision of autonomy support

5.39 (0.55)

5.40 (0.55)

5.39 (0.57)

.953

 Provision of control

3.77 (0.94)

4.10 (0.84)

3.36 (0.93)

.032

  1. Note. PA Physical activity. Data presented as means (standard deviations) unless otherwise noted. Differences compared using the Chi-square and t-tests. Physical activity MET-minutes were calculated by multiplying days of doing each type of physical activity × minutes spent doing each type of physical activity × MET value. MET values were set at 3.3 for walking, 4.0 for MPA, and 8.0 for VPA [67]