Table 6.
Factors associated with fitness tracker steps and GENEactiv moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and sleep 14-day free-living data
Correlation between Fitness Tracker Steps & GENEactiv Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity | Correlation between fitness tracker and GENEactiv Sleep | ||||
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Mean Correlation (SD) | p-value | Mean Correlation (SD) | p-value | ||
Categorical Variables | |||||
Fitness tracker | Flex | 0.68 (0.27) | 0.674 | 0.47 (0.27) | 0.220 |
ChargeHR | 0.72 (0.29) | 0.30 (0.35) | |||
Arm worn | Dominant | 0.66 (0.32) | 0.434 | 0.38 (0.35) | 0.817 |
Non-Dominant | 0.75 (0.22) | 0.35 (0.31) | |||
Gender | Male | 0.73 (0.19) | 0.683 | 0.23 (0.33) | 0.133 |
Female | 0.68 (0.33) | 0.44 (0.31) | |||
Age group | 65–69 | 0.86 (0.12) | 0.313 | 0.35 (0.36) | 0.705 |
70–79 | 0.66 (0.32) | 0.41 (0.32) | |||
80–89 | 0.66 (0.24) | 0.25 (0.36) | |||
Living status | Alone | 0.62 (0.35) | 0.332 | 0.44 (0.18) | 0.446 |
With Spouse | 0.74 (0.25) | 0.33 (0.39) | |||
Health Issues | No | 0.76 (0.18) | 0.540 | 0.31 (0.37) | 0.634 |
Yes | 0.68 (0.30) | 0.39 (0.32) | |||
Prescribed Medications | No | 0.75 (0.20) | 0.703 | 0.41 (0.40) | 0.728 |
Yes | 0.69 (0.30) | 0.35 (0.32) | |||
Fall in past year | No | 0.75 (0.20) | 0.040* | 0.38 (0.35) | 0.716 |
Yes | 0.49 (0.45) | 0.32 (0.19) | |||
Problems staying | No | 0.70 (0.23) | 0.937 | 0.48 (0.33) | 0.081 |
asleep | Yes | 0.70 (0.35) | 0.24 (0..29) | ||
Continuous Variables | |||||
Correlation | p-value | Correlation | p-value | ||
Age | −0.32 | 0.086 | −0.004 | 0.984 | |
Body Mass Index | 0.15 | 0.279 | −0.05 | 0.823 | |
Distance walked in 2MWT(1) | 0.12 | 0.520 | −0.15 | 0.482 | |
Distance walked in 2MWT(2) | 0.17 | 0.368 | −0.18 | 0.400 | |
PASE (baseline) | 0.29 | 0.148 | −0.167 | 0.459 | |
Post_PASE | .030 | 0.876 | 0.077 | 0.721 |
Note. 2MWT: two minute walk test, PASE: Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly. All 30 fitness tracker device data were utilised in the step data however only 10 Flex and 14 ChargeHR devices were utilised in the sleep analysis data. p-values for categorical variables from ANOVA or t-test comparing correlations between groups. *statistically significant at p-value <0.05