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Table 1 Subject characteristics

From: Development and pilot evaluation of a mobile app on parent-child exercises to improve physical activity and psychosocial outcomes of Hong Kong Chinese children

 

Overall (n = 67)

Users (n = 52)

Non-Users (n = 15)

p-value

Parent gender, n(%)

   

–

 Female

67 (100%)

52 (100%)

15 (100%)

 

 Male

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

 

Parent age, mean(SD)

43.13 (5.22)

43.46 (5.04)

42.00 (5.84)

0.343

Parent education level, n(%)

   

0.059

 Primary education or below

4 (6.00)

3 (5.90)

1 (7.70)

 

 Secondary education

25 (37.30)

18 (35.30)

7 (53.80)

 

 Post-secondary education

6 (9.00)

3 (5.90)

3 (23.10)

 

 Tertiary education

29 (43.30)

27 (52.90)

2 (15.40)

 

 Missing

3 (4.50)

–

–

 

Parent employment, n(%)

   

0.002

 Employed

35 (52.20)

33 (64.70)

2 (15.40)

 

 Unemployed

29 (43.30)

18 (35.30)

11 (84.60)

 

 Missing

3 (4.50)

–

–

 

Child gender, n(%)

   

0.146

 Female

13 (19.40)

8 (15.38)

5 (33.33)

 

 Male

54 (80.60)

44 (84.62)

10 (66.67)

 

Child age, mean(SD)

10.52(2.10)

10.38(2.20)

11.00(1.69)

0.321

Monthly household income (HKD ‘000), mean(SD)

73.05(88.56)

74.02 (73.81)

69.11(137.80)

0.865