Table 3.
Characteristics of study participants: age, screen time, physical activity, and KIDMED index for the total study population and according to sex.
| Total | Children (8–11 Years) | Adolescents (12–16 Years) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | |||||||||
| Variables | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
| Age (years) | 12.5 | 2.3 | 10.4 | 1.0 | 10.4 | 1.0 | 14.3 | 1.3 | 14.3 | 1.3 | ||
| Daily screen time (minutes) | 207.9 | 143.2 | 184.0 | 144.8 | 124.5 | 108.6 | * | 271.6 | 144.7 | 235.1 | 128.3 | * |
| MVPA/week (minutes) | 870.0 | 540.3 | 1037.9 | 518.3 | 886.6 | 494.7 | * | 929.9 | 554.9 | 677.1 | 520.8 | * |
| MVPA/day (minutes) | 124.3 | 77.2 | 148.3 | 74.0 | 126.7 | 70.7 | * | 132.8 | 79.3 | 96.7 | 74.4 | * |
| KIDMED index | 6.8 | 2.5 | 7.0 | 2.5 | 7.1 | 2.5 | 6.7 | 2.4 | 6.4 | 2.5 | * | |
*, p < 0.05 for the difference of means between sexes.