Table 2.
Logistic regression analysis: Odds ratios and 95 % confidence intervals for meeting the step count recommendations in children on weekdays and weekend days, separately for mother-child and father-child pairs included in the model (controlled for children’s and their parents’ age and overweight/obesity)
| Step counts (SC) recommendation 11,500 steps/day | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weekdays | Weekends | |||||||||||
| %a | OR | 95 % CI | %a | OR | 95 % CI | %a | OR | 95 % CI | %a | OR | 95 % CI | |
| Mother in the model | Father in the model | Mother in the model | Father in the model | |||||||||
| Parent | n = 115 | n = 74 | n = 115 | n = 74 | ||||||||
| Step counts | ||||||||||||
| < 10,000 steps/day | 51.9 | Ref. | 50.0 | Ref. | 31.9 | Ref. | 50.0 | Ref. | ||||
| ≥ 10,000 steps/day | 60.6 | 1.26 | 0.52–3.10 | 71.8 | 2.63 | 0.83–8.38 | 77.6 | 9.67*** | 3.57–26.23 | 70.7 | 2.70 | 0.91–8.02 |
| Screen time | ||||||||||||
| < 2 h per day | 56.3 | Ref. | 59.6 | Ref. | 49.4 | Ref. | 57.9 | Ref. | ||||
| ≥ 2 h per day | 59.1 | 1.36 | 0.43–4.31 | 65.0 | 2.18 | 0.45–10.62 | 53.8 | 0.64 | 0.22–1.82 | 64.1 | 1.83 | 0.55–6.04 |
| Children | n = 115 | n = 74 | n = 115 | n = 74 | ||||||||
| Gender | ||||||||||||
| Boys | 61.4 | Ref. | 61.9 | Ref. | 56.1 | Ref. | 69.0 | Ref. | ||||
| Girls | 52.5 | 0.69 | 0.28–1.67 | 60.0 | 0.75 | 0.21–2.62 | 45.9 | 0.60 | 0.25–1.47 | 51.4 | 0.33* | 0.11–0.99 |
| Daily screen time | ||||||||||||
| < median | 65.5 | Ref. | 71.4 | Ref. | 54.0 | Ref. | 67.7 | Ref. | ||||
| ≥ median | 48.3 | 0.37* | 0.15–0.90 | 52.4 | 0.19* | 0.43–0.85 | 47.5 | 1.19 | 0.47–3.03 | 56.5 | 0.32 | 0.09–9.33 |
| Kindergarten | ||||||||||||
| Step counts | ||||||||||||
| < median | 36.1 | Ref. | 38.9 | Ref. | 39.3 | Ref. | 50.0 | Ref. | ||||
| ≥ median | 78.9 | 6.20*** | 2.6–14.9 | 80.5 | 8.78*** | 2.61–29.60 | 63.2 | 2.63* | 1.09–6.34 | 70.7 | 3.05 | 0.99–6.66 |
| Nagelkerke R2 | 0.30** | 0.38** | 0.35*** | 0.25 | ||||||||
SC, step counts; ST, screen time; % a, proportion of children (daughter, sons) who met the pedometer-based recommendation for daily step counts 11,500 steps/day in a given row (e.g. 60.6 % of the children, whose mothers reached ≥ 10,000 steps/day on weekdays, met the recommendation of 11,500 steps/day); OR, odds ratio; 95 % CI, confidence interval; Ref., reference group
*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001; R 2, Nagelkerke coefficient of determination, logistic model, Enter method