Table 2.

Associations between physical activity pattern and psychological distress (GHQ-12 > 3). N = 108,011

Physical activity pattern	Cases/N	Model 1 Odds Ratio (95% CI)	Model 2 Odds Ratio (95% CI)	Model 3 Odds Ratio (95% CI)
Inactive	9096/54,655	1.0 (Reference)	1.0 (Reference)
Insufficiently activea	2768/20,234	0.73 (0.69, 0.76)	0.81 (0.77, 0.85)	1.0 (Reference)
Insufficiently activeb	688/5225	0.70 (0.65, 0.76)	0.79 (0.72, 0.86)	1.00 (0.91, 1.10)
Weekend warriorc	1001/8921	0.58 (0.54, 0.63)	0.68 (0.63, 0.73)	0.84 (0.77, 0.91)
Regularly actived	2100/18,976	0.58 (0.55, 0.61)	0.68 (0.64, 0.72)	0.86 (0.80, 0.92)

Model 1 adjusted for age and sex

Model 2 adjusted for age, sex, smoking, social-occupational class, BMI, longstanding illness, survey year

Model 3 uses covariates from model 2 but insufficiently active as reference category (N = 53,356)

Physical activity patterns were defined as follows:

‘Inactive’ was defined as not reporting any moderate- or vigorous-intensity physical activities;

^aInsufficiently active’ was defined as reporting one or two physical activity sessions per week totaling <150 min·wk.⁻¹ in moderate- and <75 min·wk.⁻¹ in vigorous-intensity activities

^b‘Insufficiently active’ was defined as reporting three or more physical activity sessions per week totaling <150 min·wk.⁻¹ in moderate- and <75 min·wk.⁻¹ in vigorous-intensity activities

^c‘Weekend warrior’ was defined as reporting ≥150 min·wk.⁻¹ in moderate- or ≥75 min·wk.⁻¹ in vigorous-intensity activities from one or two sessions

^d‘Regularly active’ was defined as reporting ≥150 min·wk.⁻¹ in moderate- or ≥75 min·wk.⁻¹ in vigorous-intensity activities from three or more sessions