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Table 3 Participant characteristics for groups by domain

From: Children’s physical activity during a segmented school week: results from a quasi-experimental education outside the classroom intervention

Characteristic

EOtC

Classroom

PE

Recess

Before/after school

Weekend

n, (% girls)

141 (64.5)

176 (63.1)

175 (62.9)

194 (63.4)

193 (63.7)

192 (63.5)

Age, years

10.2 ± 0.9

10.5 ± 1.0

10.1 ± 1.0

10.5 ± 1.0

10.5 ± 1.0

10.5 ± 1.0

BMI percentilea

47.3 ± 26.5

46.5 ± 26.8

46.5 ± 26.8

46.5 ± 26.8

46.5 ± 26.8

46.6 ± 26.9

Total eventsb

184

3525

242

1723

1764

381

Hours per person

5.1 ± 1.5

19.9 ± 3.7

1.9 ± 0.5

4.6 ± 1.3

37.6 ± 9.4

26.4 ± 2.6

  1. Age, BMI percentile and Hours per person are reported as mean ± standard deviation
  2. a BMI percentile were calculated based on the definition by Barlow & Dietz [32]
  3. b ‘Total events’ refers to number of events in the given domain