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Table 2 Proportion of participants meeting the MVPA, screen time, and sleep duration recommendations and combinations of these recommendations by study site

From: Proportion of children meeting recommendations for 24-hour movement guidelines and associations with adiposity in a 12-country study

Country (site)

None

(%)

MVPA

(%)

ST

(%)

SLEEP

(%)

MVPAā€‰+ā€‰ST

(%)

MVPAā€‰+ā€‰SLEEP

(%)

STā€‰+ā€‰SLEEP

(%)

MVPAā€‰+ā€‰STā€‰+ā€‰SLEEP

(%)

Australia (Adelaide)

7.1

55.4

35.3

75.8

19.7

41.5

27.3

14.9

Brazil (Sao Paulo)

28.8

43.9

23.9

29.9

11.3

9.8

8.7

3.4

Canada (Ottawa)

14.4

42.6

44.8

58.6

20.3

24.7

29.4

14.0

China (Tianjin)

21.1

15.1

59.1

34.2

6.2

4.9

19.8

1.5

Colombia (BogotĆ”)

16.8

59.5

31.8

37.6

19.2

21.1

13.0

7.8

Finland (Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa)

19.1

61.4

33.0

28.2

20.8

15.6

11.9

6.7

India (Bangalore)

22.4

25.0

62.0

26.9

16.5

8.0

17.7

6.0

Kenya (Nairobi)

16.3

58.1

42.2

31.3

27.2

16.6

10.9

6.5

Portugal (Porto)

28.5

35.1

45.4

18.1

15.8

4.1

9.2

2.0

South Africa (Cape Town)

13.0

51.7

34.0

60.7

17.7

32.7

21.0

11.9

UK (Bath and North East Somerset)

8.0

50.7

26.8

75.8

14.5

36.5

21.7

11.4

USA (Baton Rouge)

28.5

26.5

32.0

43.0

7.2

9.9

15.1

2.1

All sites

19.0

44.1

39.3

41.9

16.6

18.2

16.7

7.2

  1. Meeting the recommendations is defined as ā‰„60Ā min/day for MVPA, ā‰¤2Ā h/day for screen time, and between 9 and 11Ā h/night for sleep duration
  2. MVPA and sleep duration were based on accelerometer-determined while screen time was self-reported
  3. MVPA moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, ST screen time, SLEEP sleep duration