Table 1.
Characteristics of the Romsås in Motion Study participants by compliance to IPAQ-L
| IPAQ-L complete, N = 2274 |
IPAQ-L missing or incomplete, N = 676 |
P-value2 | |
| Age, mean (SD) | 47.1 (9.8) | 46.7 (10.1) | NS |
| Education, years, mean (SD) | 12.1 (3.7) | 11.1 (4.1) | < 0.001 |
| Full-time employment, % | 64 | 57 | < 0.01 |
| "Western" country of birth, % | 84 | 60 | < 0.001 |
| Good health in general, % | 69 | 58 | < 0.001 |
| No regular hard LPA last year1, % | 37 | 47 | < 0.001 |
| BMI, kg/m2, mean (SD) | 26.8 (4.7) | 26.8 (4.6) | NS |
1According to a short questionnaire on hard leisure-time physical activity (LPA) in the main study questionnaire [6]. 2Chi-square test or unpaired t-test, p-values are two-tailed.