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. 2025 Feb 25;25:168. doi: 10.1186/s12888-025-06612-x

Table 2.

Association between the weekend warrior and anxiety by survey-weighted logistic regression models, NHANES 2007–2012 (N = 13,740)

Case/Participants Model 1
OR (95% CI)
P-value Model 2
OR (95% CI)
P-value Model 3
OR (95% CI)
P-value
Compared to inactive
Inactive 2,105/7,289 1 [Reference] - 1 [Reference] - 1 [Reference] -
Insufficiently active 471/2,037 0.70 (0.61, 0.80) < 0.001 0.69 (0.60, 0.79) < 0.001 0.71 (0.62, 0.82) < 0.001
Weekend warrior 124/607 0.62 (0.46, 0.83) 0.002 0.63 (0.46, 0.86) 0.005 0.65 (0.48, 0.90) 0.010
Regularly active 848/3,807 0.71 (0.62, 0.81) < 0.001 0.72 (0.62, 0.83) < 0.001 0.75 (0.65, 0.87) < 0.001
P for trend < 0.001 < 0.001 0.002

Model 1: no covariates were adjusted

Model 2: gender, age, race/ethnicity, education level, marital status and PIR were adjusted

Model 3: gender, age, race/ethnicity, education level, marital status, PIR, BMI, smoking status, alcohol status, sleep duration, hypertension and diabetes were adjusted