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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 29.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Sports Med. 2014 May 13;48(13):1043–1047. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2014-093520

Table 4.

SRMs of activPAL and Actigraph for sedentary and physical activity behaviours

Baseline Intervention Δ (Intervention
−baseline)



Mean (SE) Mean (SE) Mean (SE) SRM Effect size
activPAL
  Sitting/lying (min/day) 353.8 (9.7) 337.3 (9.5) −16.5 (6.7)* 0.300 0.208
  Standing (min/day) 97.2 (8.8) 104.9 (9.2) 7.8 (6.0) 0.159 0.108
  Stepping (min/day) 41.9 (3.5) 49.7 (3.2) 7.9 (2.6)** 0.376 0.278
  Steps/day 3763 (284) 4601 (299) 838 (235)*** 0.436 0.360
  Sit-to-stand transitions 28.7 (1.3) 31.73 (1.3) 3.1 (0.9)** 0.397 0.289
Actigraph
  Sedentary behaviour (min/day) 384.6 (7.7) 370.0 (7.2) −14.6 (5.5)** 0.327 0.232
  LPA (min/day) 69.3 (4.0) 75.2 (4.1) 5.9 (2.9)* 0.245 0.177
  LMPA (min/day) 25.9 (2.6) 30.0 (2.0) 4.1 (1.4)** 0.350 0.194
  MPA (min/day) 13.0 (1.3) 16.2 (1.5) 3.1 (1.0)** 0.371 0.298
  VPA (min/day) 0.2 (0.1) 0.5 (0.2) 0.3 (0.2) 0.220 0.432
*

p<0.05;

**

p<0.01;

**

p<0.001 for non-directional t test. Sedentary behaviour: <100 cpm; LPA: 100–759 cpm; LMPA: 760–1951 cpm; MPA: 1952–5724 cpm; VPA: ≥5725 cpm.

LMPA, lifestyle moderate-intensity physical activity; LPA, light-intensity physical activity; MPA, moderate-intensity physical activity; SRM, standardised response mean; VPA, vigorous-intensity physical activity.