Self-reported domain-specific and accelerometer-based physical activity and sedentary behaviour in relation to psychological distress among an urban Asian population

Table 1 Participants’ characteristics in SH2 study and physical activity sub-study

	Overall (n = 2653)		Subsample (n = 703)		p-value*
	n	(%)	n	(%)	p-value*
Age (Med, IQR)	45.0 (34.0–58.0)		46.0 (35.0–58.0)		0.50
Age Group					0.47
18–29	433	16.3	115	16.4
30–39	534	20.1	135	19.2
40–49	592	22.3	162	23.0
50–59	515	19.4	154	21.9
60–79	579	21.8	137	19.5
Gender					0.04
Men	1193	45.0	285	40.5
Women	1460	55.0	418	59.5
Ethnicity					0.74
Chinese	1770	66.7	469	66.7
Indian	402	15.2	97	13.8
Malay	387	14.6	110	15.6
Others	94	3.5	27	3.8
Marital status					0.11
Not married^a	952	35.9	275	39.1
Married	1701	64.1	428	60.9
Education level					< 0.01
Secondary & below	800	30.2	161	22.9
Pre-tertiary	1210	45.6	356	50.6
University & above	643	24.2	186	26.5
Employment status					0.18
Unemployed	677	25.5	162	23.0
Employed	1976	74.5	541	77.0
BMI, kg/m² (Med, IQR)	23.6 (21.0–26.5)		23.7 (21.1–26.6)		0.33
BMI category					0.33
≤ 22.9 Normal	1174	44.3	291	41.4
≥ 23.0 & ≤27.4 Overweight	978	36.9	279	39.7
≥ 27.5 Obese	501	18.9	133	18.9
Smoking status					0.22
Never smoker	1873	70.6	513	73.0
Ever smoker	780	29.4	190	27.0
Alcohol drinking					0.08
Non-drinker	1433	54.0	360	51.2
Irregular drinker	984	37.1	291	41.4
Regular drinker	236	8.9	52	7.4
Psychological distress
K6 score ≥ 14	224	8.4	69	9.8	0.25
K6 (Med, IQR)	7.0 (6.0–10.0)		8.0 (6.0–10.0)	0.05
GHQ-12 score ≥ 2	577	21.7	175	24.9	0.08
GHQ-12 (Med, IQR)	0 (0–1.0)		0 (0–1.0)		0.57
Asthma	281	10.6	69	9.8	0.55
Cancer	52	2.0	16	2.3	0.60
Diabetes mellitus	235	8.9	52	7.4	0.22
Heart attack	34	1.3	9	1.3	0.99
Stroke	31	1.2	1	0.1	0.01
Presence of at least one disease	172	6.5	136	19.3	< 0.01

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