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. 2016 Aug 30;16(1):898. doi: 10.1186/s12889-016-3586-8

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