Effects of gender, activity type, class location and class composition on physical activity levels experienced during physical education classes in British secondary schools: a pilot cross-sectional study

Delextrat, Anne; Esser, Patrick; Beale, Nick; Bozon, Floris; Eldridge, Emma; Izadi, Hooshang; Johansen-Berg, Heidi; Wheatley, Catherine; Dawes, Helen

doi:10.1186/s12889-020-09698-y

Table 6 Summary of physical activity in PE model estimates (β coefficient) for Model 1 (classes as random effects and schools as fixed effects) and Model 2 (fully nested random effects model), 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) and p-values

From: Effects of gender, activity type, class location and class composition on physical activity levels experienced during physical education classes in British secondary schools: a pilot cross-sectional study

Model 1 Estimates	SPA		LPA		MPA		VPA		MVPA
Model 1 Estimates	β	95% CI	β	95% CI	β	95% CI	β	95% CI	β	95% CI
Girl^a	0.33	−0.09 -0.74	0.03	−0.50 – 0.56	0.03	−0.41 – 0.46	0.04	− 0.32 – 0.40	0.05	− 0.36 – 0.46
Art^b	0.44	− 0.07 –0.95	0.29	− 0.46 – 1.04	0.28	− 0.53 – 1.10	− 0.96***	−1.54 – − 0.39	− 0.4	−1.07 – 0.27
Fitness^b	0.71*	0.19–1.23	− 0.11	− 0.80 – 0.59	−0.7	− 1.45 – 0.05	0.36	− 0.17 – 0.89	− 0.15	−0.77 – 0.46
Racket^b	0.3	−0.10 –0.71	0	−0.59 – 0.58	0.45	−0.26 – 1.15	−0.75***	− 1.23 – − 0.28	−0.21	− 0.77 – 0.35
Indoors^c	0.43*	0.10–0.76	0.21	−0.28 – 0.70	− 0.43	− 1.02 – 0.15	−0.54*	− 0.93 – − 0.14	−0.63*	− 1.09 – − 0.16
Girl:Art^d	− 0.04	−0.69 –0.61	− 0.24	− 1.05 – 0.57	−0.24	− 0.91 – 0.43	0.16	− 0.38 – 0.71	−0.1	− 0.72 – 0.52
Girl:Fitness^d	−0.3	− 1.05 –0.45	0.18	− 0.70 – 1.06	0.25	− 0.47 – 0.98	−0.4	−1.00 – 0.19	− 0.14	−0.81 – 0.53
Girl:Racket^d	−0.32	−1.06 –0.42	0.37	−0.48 – 1.22	−0.01	− 0.73 – 0.71	−0.42	− 1.01 – 0.16	− 0.24	−0.90 – 0.42
Boys-only^e			0.32	−0.08 – 0.73	0.65*	0.18–1.12	− 0.03	−0.36 – 0.29	0.26	−0.12 – 0.64
Girls-only^e			0.11	−0.47 – 0.69	−0.32	− 0.97 – 0.33	−0.68*	−1.13 – − 0.23	−0.67*	−1.20 – − 0.14
Model 2 Estimates							VPA		MVPA
							β	95% CI	β	95% CI
Girl^a							0.05	−0.30 – 0.41	0.05	−0.36 – 0.46
Art^b							−0.94**	−1.50 – − 0.38	−0.40	−1.07 – 0.27
Fitness^b							0.34	−0.18 – − 0.92	−0.15	− 0.77 – 0.46
Racket^b							−0.78**	−1.22 – − 0.35	−0.21	− 0.77 – 0.35
Indoors^c							−0.47	− 0.90 – − 0.05	−0.63*	−1.09 – − 0.16
Girl:Art^d							0.19	−0.36 – 0.74	−0.10	− 0.72 – 0.52
Girl:Fitness^d							−0.46	−1.05 – 0.13	− 0.14	−0.81 – 0.53
Girl:Racket^d							−0.43	−1.01 – 0.15	− 0.24	−0.90 – 0.42
Boys-only^e							0.02	−0.30 – 0.33	0.26	−0.12 – 0.64
Girls-only^e							−0.71*	−1.18 – − 0.23	−0.67*	− 1.20 – − 0.14

^a Reference category: Boys; ^b Reference category: Ball games^{; c} Reference category: Outdoors;
^d Reference category: Boys:Ball games; ^e Reference category: Co-education
*** p < 0.001; ** p < 0.01; * p < 0.05

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