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Table 1 Participant characteristics

From: The association between physical activity, sedentary behavior, sleep, and body mass index z-scores in different settings among toddlers and preschoolers

Variables

Total (n = 100)

Adiposity measure

 

 BMI z-scorea

0.5 (0.8)

Movement behaviors inside child care

 

 Number of valid weekdaysb

4.6 (0.8)

 Accelerometer wear time (hours/day)b

5.7 (1.5)

 LPA (hours/day)b

1.8 (0.3)

 MVPA (hours/day)b

0.5 (0.3)

 Sedentary time (hours/day)b

3.4 (0.5)

 Sedentary bouts (hours/day) lasting

 

  1–4 minb

1.3 (0.2)

  5–9 minb

0.6 (0.2)

  10–14 minb

0.4 (0.2)

   ≥ 15 minb

0.5 (0.3)

 Daytime Sleep (hours/day)c

1.2 (0.9)

Movement behaviors outside of child care

 

 MVPA (hours/day)c

1.0 (0.4)

 Screen time (hours/day)c

2.1 (1.1)

 Non-screen time (hours/day)c

1.8 (0.9)

 Nighttime sleep (hours/night)c

10.3 (1.0)

Covariates

 

 Age (months)c

38.5 (12.1)

 Sex

 

  Femalec

47.0 %

  Malec

53.0 %

 Parental Education

 

  Grade 9–12c

11.0 %

  Community/Technical Collegec

22.0 %

  University (e.g., undergraduate, teacher’s college)c

49.0 %

  Graduate University (e.g., master’s, doctorate, medicine)c

18.0 %

  1. Values represent mean (standard deviation) for continuous variables and percentage for categorical variables; BMI body mass index, LPA light physical activity, MVPA moderate-to-vigorous physical activity
  2. aResearcher measured variable; bAccelerometer measured variable; and cParental-questionnaire measured variable