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. 2024 Apr 24;12:e17097. doi: 10.7717/peerj.17097

Table 2. Levels of physical activity or sedentary behaviour.

PA SB
Caleyachetty et al. (2015) 71.4% (69.5–73.3) reported low physical activity N/A
Peltzer & Pengpid (2016) The prevalence of physical inactivity was 80.4%, ranging from 74.8% in Myanmar to 90.7% in Cambodia Sedentary behaviour 33.0%, ranging from 10.5% in Cambodia and Myanmar to 42.7% in Malaysia.
Darfour-Oduro et al. (2018) Adolescents in India were the most active (29.5%) in terms of meeting the WHO recommendation for daily PA N/A
Vancampfort et al. (2018) N/A The prevalence of ≥3 h/day of sedentary behaviour were 30.6%
Ashdown-Franks et al. (2019a) The prevalence of adequate levels of PA in the past was 7.3%. N/A
Ashdown-Franks et al. (2019b) N/A The overall prevalence of SB were: <1 h/day 38.7%; 1–2 h/day 34.3%; 3–4 h/day 15.8%; 5–8 h/day 7.7%; and > 8 h/day 3.6%.
Ashdown-Franks et al. (2019c) N/A The prevalence of SB was as follows: <1 h/d: 38.4%; 1 to 2 h/d: 35.4%; 3 to 4 h/d: 15.6%; 5 to 8 h/d: 7.3%; and >8 h/d: 3.4%.
Vancampfort et al. (2019a) N/A The prevalence of <1, 1–2, 3–4, 5–8, and >8 h of leisure-time sedentary behaviour were 41.4%, 32.9%, 14.8%, 7.4%, and 3.6%.
Vancampfort et al. (2019b) N/A The prevalence of high leisure-time sedentary behaviour was 26.6% while 2.8% used cannabis at least once in the past 30 days (1–2 times 1.4%; 3–9 times 0.8%; 10–19 times 0.3%; ≥20 times 0.3%).
Vancampfort et al. (2019c) N/A The overall prevalence of ≥3 h/day of leisure-time sedentary behaviour was 26.4% (95% CI [25.6–27.2%]).
Vancampfort et al. (2019b) The overall prevalence of adequate physical activity was 15.3% (95% CI [14.5–16.1%]) N/A
Liu et al. (2021) The prevalence of active school travel was 37.0% N/A
Ma et al. (2020) A total of 15.3% of young adolescents achieved the recommended level for sufficient physical activity A total of 15.3% of young adolescents achieved and 64.6% achieved a low sedentary behaviour
Wang et al. (2020) N/A Sedentary behaviour of >2 h/day was observed in 32.7% of the youth (ranging from 9.6% in Myanmar to 53.5% in Saint Lucia)
Xu et al. (2020) The overall prevalence of physical activity, active transportation, physical education, and sedentary behaviour was 15.2%
(95% CI [13.7–16.7%]), 39.5% (95% CI [34.9–44.0%]), and 18.8% (95%
CI [16.1–21.5%]).
The overall prevalence of sedentary behaviour was 34.6% (95% CI [28.4–40.7%]).
Aboagye et al. (2021) Among those who reported physical education contributed to 67.9%, of the prevalence. N/A
Hoogstoel et al. (2021) A total of 62.0% of the adolescents had insufficient physical activity (inactive). N/A
Ozeylem, de la Torre-Luque & Essau (2021) The percentage of physical activity practice in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines and Thailand was 19.4%, 23.7%, 30.18%, 21.66%, 15.2%, and 24.71%. N/A
Qi et al. (2021) Overall, 15.4% (13.7–17.2) of respondents reported the ideal levels for physical activity N/A
Smith et al. (2021) The prevalence of 31.4% (no physical activity) The prevalence of 26.4% (≥3 h/day sedentary behaviour).
Vancampfort et al. (2021) The prevalence of MVPA/day last week were 15.3% (girls 12.1%; boys 18.4%) The prevalence of 3 h/day of leisure-time sedentary behaviour were 26.3% (girls 26.2%; boys 26.5%)
Khan, Khan & Burton (2022) Overall, 86% were not sufficiently active (<7 days/week of ≥60 min/day). Overall, 31% had high SB (≥3 h/day)
Ma et al. (2022) N/A The overall prevalence of leisure sedentary time more than 2 h/day was 35.3%, lowest in Nepal (9.5%) and highest in
Kuwait (63.5%).