Associations of social and environmental supports with sedentary behavior, light and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in obese underserved adolescents

Table 1 Participant demographics and psychosocial characteristics (n = 181)

Variable	Mean	Standard deviation
Female (count/%)	109	60%
Ethnicity (count/%)
African American	143	79%
Caucasian	21	12%
Latino	15	8%
Other	2	1%
Age (yrs)	13.3	2.1
BMI (kg/m²)	33.5	7.0
MVPA (average min/day)	27.6	21.2
Light PA (average min/day)	237.0	71.4
Sedentary behavior (average min/day)	749.0	123.0
Self-efficacy for PA	2.0	0.5
Parental nurturance	4.7	0.9
Parental support	2.6	1.1
Parental limit-setting	3.8	1.0
Parental monitoring	3.5	0.9
Home resources	5.4	2.4
Neighborhood support	2.7	0.5

Note: Values reported using a single imputation and shown as Mean (SD) or Count (%). Self-efficacy was reported using a 3-point scale. Parenting and neighborhood variables were reported using 5-point scales. Home resources were summed and ranged from 0–12. For all scales, higher scores indicated more of the construct. Environmental measures were parent-reported perceptions of home resources and neighborhood supports.

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