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Table 4 Average minutes and seconds (standard deviation) taken by children to complete a 1.6 km run/walk by parental exercise

From: Parental exercise is associated with Australian children's extracurricular sports participation and cardiorespiratory fitness: A cross-sectional study

Parental exercise

Boys

Girls

Both active

7 m 48 s (4.2 s)

9 m 30 s (4.8 s)

Mother active only

8 m 6 s (4.2 s)

9 m 42 s (5.4 s)

Father active only

8 m 0 s (3.6 s)

9 m 48 s (6.0 s)

Both inactive

8 m 6 s (3.0 s)

9 m 54 s (5.4 s)

Test of association

p < 0.001

p < 0.001

  1. Values are least squares means (standard error) adjusted for age, SES & school type