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. 2019 Mar 20;16:28. doi: 10.1186/s12966-019-0791-8

Table 3.

Sleep and PA as moderators of the associations between depression, emotional eating and 7-year change in adiposity indicatorsa

Night sleep duration (hours per night) Total PA (minutes per week)
6 h 7 h 8 h 9 h Sleep * latent factor interaction 95.7 minb 743.7 minb 1391.7 minb PA * latent factor interaction
β (SE)c β (SE)c β (SE)c β (SE)c β (SE) β (SE)c β (SE)c β (SE)c β (SE)
Models for BMI
 EE 2007 ➔ BMI change 0.212 (0.047)
P < 0.001
0.139 (0.032)
P < 0.001
0.066 (0.035)
P = 0.059
−0.006 (0.054)
P = 0.905
−0.073 (0.027)
P = 0.007
0.106 (0.042)
P = 0.012
0.108 (0.030)
P < 0.001
0.110 (0.043)
P = 0.010
0.000 (0.000)
P = 0.937
 Depression 2007 ➔ BMI change 0.073 (0.075)
P = 0.333
0.128 (0.054)
P = 0.019
0.184 (0.063)
P = 0.003
0.239 (0.093)
P = 0.010
0.056 (0.043)
P = 0.192
0.267 (0.076)
P < 0.001
0.174 (0.053)
P = 0.001
0.082 (0.079)
P = 0.300
0.000 (0.000)
P = 0.097
Models for WC
 EE 2007 ➔ WC change 0.209 (0.047)
P < 0.001
0.147 (0.032)
P < 0.001
0.086 (0.036)
P = 0.017
0.024 (0.056)
P = 0.662
−0.062 (0.028)
P = 0.026
0.133 (0.042)
P = 0.002
0.125 (0.031)
P < 0.001
0.116 (0.043)
P = 0.006
0.000 (0.000)
P = 0.778
 Depression 2007 ➔ WC change 0.124 (0.075)
P = 0.101
0.145 (0.055)
P = 0.008
0.166 (0.064)
P = 0.009
0.187 (0.094)
P = 0.045
0.021 (0.043)
P = 0.622
0.191 (0.077)
P = 0.013
0.172 (0.054)
P = 0.001
0.154 (0.078)
P = 0.049
0.000 (0.000)
P = 0.737

BMI body mass index, EE emotional eating, PA physical activity, WC waist circumference

aModels were adjusted for age and gender

b1 SD below the mean (95.7 min/week), mean (743.7 min/week), and 1 SD above the mean (1391.7 min/week)

cEstimates were derived by calculating simple slope tests at different values of the moderator [49]