Socioeconomic and ethnic differences in children's vigorous intensity physical activity: a cross-sectional analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate if daily vigorous physical activity (VPA), adjusted for minutes of moderate physical activity (MPA) performed, differs by socioeconomic position or ethnicity in a large sample of UK children with objectively measured physical activity.

Design

Nationally representative prospective cohort study.

Setting

UK children born between 2000 and 2002.

Participants

5172 children aged 7-8 with valid accelerometer data for ≥10 hour on ≥3 days, including 1 weekend day.

Main outcome measures

Time spent in VPA (>3841 counts per min).

Explanatory measures

Maternal education, annual household Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development equivalised income, ethnicity.

Results

Multivariable linear regression models fitted to e

SUBMITTER: Love R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6549689 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature