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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Res Q Exerc Sport. 2013 Sep;84(3):323–328. doi: 10.1080/02701367.2013.814041

Table 2.

Panel A: means with standard deviations and medians with inter-quartile ranges for total minutes of sedentary, all measures. Panel B: proportion of MSTQ-reported waking time spent sitting and proportion of accelerometer wear-time <100 counts (relative sedentary time).

A MSTQ
(minutes
sitting)
Activity
Log
(minutes
sitting)
Accelerometer
(minutes <100
counts)
B MSTQ %
(% of
waking time
sitting)
Relative
accelerometer
(% weartime
<100 counts)
Workday
  n 25 22 21 25 21
  Mean (SD) 659.2 (221.2) 450.0* (183.4) 550.9 (89.1) 65.2% (21.4) 63.3% (8.2)
  Median (IQR) 660 (480, 840) 420 (315, 600) 518 (491, 586) 64.7% (46.9, 82.9) 62.1% (56.9, 68.9)
Non-workday
  n 25 21 16 25 16
  Mean (SD) 568.2 (228.9) 414.3* (161.6) 478.6 (80.1) 60.6% (24.9) 63.8% (9.0)
  Median (IQR) 570 (390, 720) 420 (315, 510) 486.5 (421.5, 521) 61.8% (40.6, 75.0) 65.4% (56.7, 69.1)

Note. SD = standard deviation, IQR = inter-quartile range

*

For the same type of day, significantly different from MSTQ at p<0.05, paired t-test