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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 8.
Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2011 May;43(5):905–912. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181fca1ea

TABLE 3.

Self-reported physical activity in FM patients and healthy controls (CO).

FM (n = 39) CO (n = 40) P a Effect Size CL
Job-related (MET·min·wk−1) 911 ± 2497 1310 ± 2469 0.10 0.60
Transportation (MET·min·wk−1) 231 ± 293 747 ± 1204 0.002* 0.70
Housework (MET·min·wk−1) 1193 ± 1548 122 ± 974 0.20 0.58
Recreation (MET·min·wk−1) 443 ± 743 1183 ± 1300 0.01* 0.66
Total (MET·min·wk−1) 2741 ± 3081 4338 ± 3232 0.006* 0.68
Sitting time (min·d−1) 412 ± 194 374 ± 142 0.81 0.52
Walking (min·d−1) 32 ± 42 59 ± 58 0.01* 0.67
Moderate (min·d−1) 59 ± 58 70 ± 52 0.18 0.59
Vigorous (min·d−1) 5 ± 16 17 ± 21 <0.001* 0.70

All measures are expressed as mean ± SD.

*

Significant at α = 0.05 after family-wise correction for multiple comparisons using the Holm method.

a

Analyzed using Mann–Whitney U test.