Relationship between mothers’ enjoyment and sedentary behavior and physical activity of mother–child dyads using a movement-to-music video program: a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial

Table 1 Background characteristics of the participants in the intervention and control groups

		Intervention	Control		Difference between groups, p value
	n	mean (SD) / n (%)	n	mean (SD) / n (%)
Mothers
Age (in 2015)	50	36.4 (4.6)	58	38.2 (5.1)	0.059^a
Married or cohabited	50	45 (90.0)	58	58 (100.0)	0.019^b
Number of children	50	2.5 (1.1)	57	2.4 (0.9)	0.88^a
Employment, at work	50	40 (80.0)	58	51 (87.9)	0.30^b
BMI	50	27.1 (5.2)	58	27.5 (5.3)	0.80^a
Perceived health in VAS (0–100)	49	75.9 (16.3)	58	74.1 (13.3)	0.26^a
Children
Age	50	6.6 (0.5)	58	6.5 (0.5)	0.18^a
Gender, girls	50	23 (46.0)	58	34 (58.6)	0.25^b
BMI-for-age	50	22.2 (4.0)	56	22.2 (4.1)	0.84^a
Daycare or preschool	50	47 (94.0)	58	55 (94.8)	1.00^b

Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation (SD) or the number of participants (n, %)
^a A Mann-Whitney U-test
^b A Fisher’s exact test

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