Examining Factors of Accelerometer-Measured Sedentary Time in a Sample of Rural Canadian Children
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Design and Data Collection
2.2. Dependent Variable: Sedentary Time
2.3. Independent Variables
2.3.1. Child-Level
2.3.2. Day-Level
2.4. Statistical Analyses
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Variable | Source | Description |
---|---|---|
Child-level | ||
Socio-demographic | ||
Gender | Child survey (categorical) | Self-reported gender as boy or girl (boy/girl) |
Ethnicity | Child survey (categorical) | Ethnicity coded as either Caucasian or Indigenous and other ethnicity (Caucasian or Indigenous and Visible Minority) |
Age | Child survey (continuous) | Age in years |
Home and neighbourhood environment | ||
Maternal education | Parent survey (categorical) | Mother’s education (high school and below/college and above) |
Family composition | Child survey (categorical) | Number of parents in the main household (two parents/lone parent) |
Screen-time rules | Child survey (categorical) | Self-reported if child had screen-time rules (yes/no) |
Screen in bedroom | Child survey (categorical) | Self-reported if child had a screen in their bedroom (yes/no) |
Urbanicity | GIS (categorical) | Categorical variable regarding whether the child lives in or outside the two settled communities (rural-small town/rural) |
Day-level | ||
Maximum temperature | Historical weather data (continuous) | Continuous variable data based on maximum temperature from closest weather station |
Rain days | Historical weather data (categorical) | Categorical variable based on whether it had rained that day (rain vs. no rain) |
Snow days | Historical weather data (categorical) | Categorical variable based on whether it had snowed that day snow (snow/no snow) |
Day type | Weekday or weekend day (categorical) | Categorical variable based on whether data were collected during a weekday or weekend day (weekday/weekend) |
Variable | n | % |
---|---|---|
Child-level | ||
Socio-demographic | ||
Gender | ||
Boy | 34 | 39.5 |
Girl | 52 | 60.5 |
Ethnicity | ||
Caucasian | 51 | 59.3 |
Indigenous or visible minority | 35 | 40.7 |
Age, mean (std dev) | 10.6 | 1.4 |
Home and neighbourhood environment | ||
Maternal education | ||
High school or below | 21 | 24.4 |
College and above | 65 | 75.6 |
Family composition | ||
Two-parent household | 73 | 84.9 |
Lone-parent household | 13 | 15.1 |
Screen-time rules | ||
Yes | 41 | 47.7 |
No | 45 | 52.3 |
Screen in room | ||
Yes | 17 | 19.8 |
No | 69 | 80.2 |
Urbanicity | ||
Rural small town | 44 | 51.2 |
Rural | 42 | 48.8 |
Day-level | ||
Maximum temperature mean (std dev) | 10 | 9.5 |
No rain or snow | 16 | 59.3 |
Rain days | 4 | 14.8 |
Snow days | 7 | 25.9 |
Day type | ||
Weekday | 18 | 66.7 |
Weekend | 9 | 33.3 |
Outcome Variable | ||
Sedentary Time mean (std dev) | 445.9 | 100.8 |
Variable | Category | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Est | SE | p-Value | Est | SE | p-Value | Est | SE | p-Value | ||
Intercept | 442.08 | 22.30 | 470.11 | 15.15 | 462.16 | 25.48 | ||||
Gender (ref: Girls) | Boys | −28.91 | 12.32 | 0.02 | −30.53 | 12.21 | 0.01 | |||
Ethnicity (ref: Caucasian) | Indigenous and visible minority | 1.92 | 13.06 | 0.88 | 3.56 | 12.87 | 0.78 | |||
Age | Years | 14.37 | 4.19 | <0.01 | 12.79 | 4.21 | <0.01 | |||
Mother’s education (ref: High school or below) | College or above | 14.64 | 10.85 | 0.18 | 18.82 | 10.85 | 0.08 | |||
Family composition (ref: Two) | One | 10.88 | 18.11 | 0.55 | 3.48 | 18.28 | 0.85 | |||
Screen in room (ref: No) | Yes | 5.87 | 15.00 | 0.70 | 3.46 | 14.84 | 0.82 | |||
Screen-time rules (ref: No) | Yes | −13.42 | 12.26 | 0.27 | −11.08 | 12.12 | 0.36 | |||
Urbanicity (ref: Rural-small town) | Rural | 4.40 | 15.35 | 0.77 | 7.81 | 15.23 | 0.61 | |||
Maximum temperature | −1.70 | 0.87 | 0.05 | −1.65 | 0.87 | 0.06 | ||||
Rain days (ref: No) | Yes | −30.96 | 19.56 | 0.11 | −32.06 | 19.42 | 0.10 | |||
Snow days (ref: No) | Yes | −23.07 | 18.65 | 0.22 | −19.60 | 18.62 | 0.29 | |||
Day type (ref: Weekday) | Weekend day | −2.80 | 13.77 | 0.84 | −1.56 | 13.67 | 0.91 |
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Button, B.L.G.; Martin, G.; Clark, A.F.; Graat, M.; Gilliland, J.A. Examining Factors of Accelerometer-Measured Sedentary Time in a Sample of Rural Canadian Children. Children 2020, 7, 232. https://doi.org/10.3390/children7110232
Button BLG, Martin G, Clark AF, Graat M, Gilliland JA. Examining Factors of Accelerometer-Measured Sedentary Time in a Sample of Rural Canadian Children. Children. 2020; 7(11):232. https://doi.org/10.3390/children7110232
Chicago/Turabian StyleButton, Brenton L. G., Gina Martin, Andrew F. Clark, Megan Graat, and Jason A. Gilliland. 2020. "Examining Factors of Accelerometer-Measured Sedentary Time in a Sample of Rural Canadian Children" Children 7, no. 11: 232. https://doi.org/10.3390/children7110232