Table 3.
Mean physical activity and calorie expenditure during physical activity for the participants at baseline and after the intervention
| Mean | F value | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before intervention | After intervention | Group | Time | Group × time | |||
| Controls | Intervention | Controls | Intervention | ||||
| Distance (m/day) | 631 ± 59 | 1293 ± 129 | 614 ± 56 | 3501 ± 287 | 32.88** | 0.46 | 23.21** |
| Duration (min/day) | 74 ± 11 | 135 ± 26 | 72 ± 10 | 203 ± 35 | 7.79** | 0.43 | 0.42 |
| Calorie expenditure (kcal/day) | 50.16 ± 8.2 | 134.34 ± 34.6 | 46.74 ± 7.5 | 359.24 ± 62.4 | 45.48** | 0.99 | 455.79** |
1 Based on repeated measures GLM (df = 1) after adjusting for the confounding effects of genotype, age, and anthropometric variables at (P < 0.05)* and (P < 0.01)**