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. 2017 Jun 14;17:147. doi: 10.1186/s12887-017-0894-9

Table 2.

Total time accumulated in sedentary bouts of different length for specific time periods

During school hours weekday (8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.) After-school hours weekday (4:00-6:00 p.m.) Evening period weekday (6:00-10:00 p.m.) Weekday Weekend day
SED bouts 2-5 min
Total time accumulated (min) 76.1 20.8 31.4 137.9 121.3
Proportion of SED time (%) 26.9b,c 28.3a,c 26.2a,b 26.3 26.7
SED bouts 5-10 min
Total time accumulated (min) 58.4 14.2 25.5 107.0 88.7
Proportion of SED time (%) 20.3c 19.6c 21.3a,b 19.9d 18.8
SED bouts 10-20 min
Total time accumulated (min) 44.5 7.3 17.2 81.0 63.2
Proportion of SED time (%) 15.3b 11.3a,c 15.2b 14.6d 12.8
SED bouts 20-30 min
Total time accumulated (min) 16.1 1.6 5.5 29.9 22.7
Proportion of SED time (%) 5.6b 2.9a,c 5.2b 5.4d 4.5
SED bouts ≥30 min
Total time accumulated (min) 11.2 0.7 5.7 33.8 28.9
Proportion of SED time (%) 3.8c 2.9c 6.1a,b 5.7 5.3
SED time
Total SED time (min) 284.1 71.5 117.3 532.8 463.9
Proportion of wear time (%) 64.0b,c 59.8a,c 65.9a,b 64.1d 61.9

SED sedentary

asignificantly different from during school hours period

bsignificantly different from after school hours period

csignificantly different from the evening time period

dsignificantly different from a weekend day