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Biological, socio-demographic, work and lifestyle determinants of sitting in young adult women: a prospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: Sitting is associated with health risks. Factors that influence sitting are however not well understood. The aim was to examine the biological, socio-demographic, work-related and lifestyle determinants of sitting time (including during transport, work and leisure) in young adult Austral...

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Autores principales: Uijtdewilligen, Léonie, Twisk, Jos WR, Singh, Amika S, Chinapaw, Mai JM, van Mechelen, Willem, Brown, Wendy J
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3904408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24457004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-5868-11-7
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author Uijtdewilligen, Léonie
Twisk, Jos WR
Singh, Amika S
Chinapaw, Mai JM
van Mechelen, Willem
Brown, Wendy J
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Twisk, Jos WR
Singh, Amika S
Chinapaw, Mai JM
van Mechelen, Willem
Brown, Wendy J
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description BACKGROUND: Sitting is associated with health risks. Factors that influence sitting are however not well understood. The aim was to examine the biological, socio-demographic, work-related and lifestyle determinants of sitting time (including during transport, work and leisure) in young adult Australian women. METHODS: Self-reported data from 11,676 participants (aged 22–27 years in 2000) in the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health were collected over 9 years in 2000, 2003, 2006 and 2009. Generalised Estimating Equations were used to examine univariable and multivariable associations of body mass index (BMI), country of birth, area of residence, education, marital status, number of children, occupational status, working hours, physical activity, smoking, alcohol intake and stress with week- and weekend-day sitting time. RESULTS: Compared with women in the respective referent categories, (1) women with higher BMI, those born in Asia, those with less than University level education, doing white collar work, working 41–48 hours a week, current smokers, non, rare or risky/high risk drinkers and those being somewhat stressed had significantly higher sitting time; and (2) women living in rural and remote areas, partnered women, those with children, those without a paid job and blue collar workers, those working less than 34 hours a week, and active women had significantly lower sitting time. CONCLUSIONS: Among young adult Australian women, those with higher BMI, those born in Asia, those with higher level occupations and long working hours, were most at risk of higher sitting time. These results can be used to identify at-risk groups and inform intervention development.
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spelling pubmed-39044082014-01-29 Biological, socio-demographic, work and lifestyle determinants of sitting in young adult women: a prospective cohort study Uijtdewilligen, Léonie Twisk, Jos WR Singh, Amika S Chinapaw, Mai JM van Mechelen, Willem Brown, Wendy J Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act Research BACKGROUND: Sitting is associated with health risks. Factors that influence sitting are however not well understood. The aim was to examine the biological, socio-demographic, work-related and lifestyle determinants of sitting time (including during transport, work and leisure) in young adult Australian women. METHODS: Self-reported data from 11,676 participants (aged 22–27 years in 2000) in the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health were collected over 9 years in 2000, 2003, 2006 and 2009. Generalised Estimating Equations were used to examine univariable and multivariable associations of body mass index (BMI), country of birth, area of residence, education, marital status, number of children, occupational status, working hours, physical activity, smoking, alcohol intake and stress with week- and weekend-day sitting time. RESULTS: Compared with women in the respective referent categories, (1) women with higher BMI, those born in Asia, those with less than University level education, doing white collar work, working 41–48 hours a week, current smokers, non, rare or risky/high risk drinkers and those being somewhat stressed had significantly higher sitting time; and (2) women living in rural and remote areas, partnered women, those with children, those without a paid job and blue collar workers, those working less than 34 hours a week, and active women had significantly lower sitting time. CONCLUSIONS: Among young adult Australian women, those with higher BMI, those born in Asia, those with higher level occupations and long working hours, were most at risk of higher sitting time. These results can be used to identify at-risk groups and inform intervention development. BioMed Central 2014-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3904408/ /pubmed/24457004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-5868-11-7 Text en Copyright © 2014 Uijtdewilligen et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Chinapaw, Mai JM
van Mechelen, Willem
Brown, Wendy J
Biological, socio-demographic, work and lifestyle determinants of sitting in young adult women: a prospective cohort study
title Biological, socio-demographic, work and lifestyle determinants of sitting in young adult women: a prospective cohort study
title_full Biological, socio-demographic, work and lifestyle determinants of sitting in young adult women: a prospective cohort study
title_fullStr Biological, socio-demographic, work and lifestyle determinants of sitting in young adult women: a prospective cohort study
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title_short Biological, socio-demographic, work and lifestyle determinants of sitting in young adult women: a prospective cohort study
title_sort biological, socio-demographic, work and lifestyle determinants of sitting in young adult women: a prospective cohort study
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3904408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24457004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-5868-11-7
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