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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Phys Act Health. 2016 Jan 18;13(7):726–732. doi: 10.1123/jpah.2015-0534

Table 2.

Differences in Baseline Physical Activity Parameters, Less Active and More Active States

Less active state More active state
Mean SD Mean SD P value
Light Activity
Total bouts per
day
75.76 14.20 79.48 16.62 <0.01
Average minutes
per bout
5.60 1.47 5.16 1.51 <0.001
Average MET
score per bout
1.99 0.12 2.15 0.14 <0.001
Total minutes per
day
405.15 69.99 397.27 81.67 0.01

Moderate/
Vigorous
Activity
Total bouts per
day
4.63 2.46 12.98 4.91 <0.001
Average minutes
per bout
1.32 0.55 1.40 0.17 <0.001
Average MET
score per bout
3.67 0.14 3.89 0.20 <0.001
Total minutes per
day
6.18 3.72 18.96 7.79 <0.001

Other
Parameters
Minutes per day
sedentary
398.81 143.85 382.96 126.18 0.09
BMI for age
percentile
72.53 27.71 67.44 29.37 0.74
Weight for age
percentile
61.37 29.85 59.60 28.48 0.75