Table 6.
Associations between the use of emergency services and physical activity level in the general Spanish population aged 18–69 years compared by sex, according to the ENSE 2017.
| Men (n = 8199) | Women (n = 8942) | Total (n = 17,141) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAL | Yes n (%) |
No n (%) |
p | Yes n (%) |
No n (%) |
p | Yes n (%) |
No n (%) |
p |
| Inactive n = 2482 |
407 (35.2) a | 749 (64.8) b | 0.002 | 550 (41.5) a | 776 (58.5) b | <0.001 | 957 (38.6) a | 1525 (61.4) b | <0.001 |
| Walkers n = 7901 |
883 (26.5) a | 2452 (73.5) a | 1409 (30.9) a | 3157 (69.1) a | 2292 (29.0) a | 5609 (71.0) a | |||
| Low n = 2339 |
244 (22.7) a | 833 (77.3) b | 353 (28.0) a | 909 (72.0) b | 597 (25.5) a | 1742 (74.5) b | |||
| Medium n = 2349 |
315 (24.7) a | 958 (75.3) a | 285 (26.5) a | 791 (73.5) b | 600 (25.5) a | 1749 (74.5) b | |||
| High n = 1353 |
227 (25.9) a | 650 (74.1) a | 127 (26.7) a | 349 (73.3) b | 354 (26.2) a | 999 (73.8) b | |||
| Very High n = 717 |
99 (20.6) a | 382 (79.4) b | 60 (25.4) a | 176 (74.6) a | 159 (22.2) a | 558 (77.8) b | |||
| Total n = 17,141 |
2175 (26.5) | 6024 (73.5) | 2784 (31.1) | 6158 (68.9) | 4959 (28.9) | 12,182 (71.1) | |||
Values presented in absolute and relative frequencies; n: number of participants; %: Percentage; PAL: Physical Activity Level); PAI: Physical Activity Index; only considers vigorous and moderate physical activity. Scores between 0 and 67.5; Inactive: PAI = 0; reports not walking at least one day a week for more than 10 min at a time; Walkers PAI = 0; reports walking at least one day a week for more than 10 min at a time; Low: PAI = 1–15; Medium: PAI = 16–30; High: PAI = 31–45; Very high: PAI > 45; Yes: used emergency services at least once in the last 12 months; No: did not use emergency services at least once in the last 12 months; p: p-value from chi-square test; a, b: Pairwise z-test for independent proportions. Each subscript corresponds to a subset whose column proportions do not differ from each other at the 0.05 level.