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Comparison of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Patterns by Sex, Geographical Location, and Time of the Week in Mexican Adolescents

Edtna Jáuregui-Ulloa
,
Julissa Ortiz-Brunel
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Alejandro Gaytán-González
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Raúl Soria-Rodríguez
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José Marcos Pérez-Maravilla
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Martín Francisco González-Villalobos
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Deborah Salvo
,
Darren E. R. Warbuton
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Juan Ricardo López-Taylor
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Version 1 : Received: 25 September 2024 / Approved: 26 September 2024 / Online: 26 September 2024 (10:51:48 CEST)

How to cite: Jáuregui-Ulloa, E.; Ortiz-Brunel, J.; Gaytán-González, A.; Soria-Rodríguez, R.; Pérez-Maravilla, J. M.; González-Villalobos, M. F.; Salvo, D.; Warbuton, D. E. R.; López-Taylor, J. R. Comparison of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Patterns by Sex, Geographical Location, and Time of the Week in Mexican Adolescents. Preprints 2024, 2024092102. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.2102.v1 Jáuregui-Ulloa, E.; Ortiz-Brunel, J.; Gaytán-González, A.; Soria-Rodríguez, R.; Pérez-Maravilla, J. M.; González-Villalobos, M. F.; Salvo, D.; Warbuton, D. E. R.; López-Taylor, J. R. Comparison of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Patterns by Sex, Geographical Location, and Time of the Week in Mexican Adolescents. Preprints 2024, 2024092102. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.2102.v1

Abstract

Excess sedentary behaviour (SB) and insufficient physical activity (PA) have been identified as risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases in adolescents, some factors may affect how much time they spent on these activities. This study sought to compare the SB and PA patterns as well as the compliance with PA recommendations by sex, geographical location, and time of the week in Mexican adolescents. In a cross-sectional design, we objectively assessed SB and PA in 106 adolescents (15 to 18 y) through waist-worn accelerometers for one week. The time spent in SB and in PA at different intensities was compared by sex, geographical location and time of the week with two-way and three-way repeated measures MANOVAs, while the compliance with physical activity recommendations (i.e. ≥60 min/day) was compared using chi-squared and McNemar tests. Male participants spent more time in moderate, vigorous, and moderate to vigorous PA than females both in the whole week and in weekdays (all p < 0.05). There was no significant difference in SB nor PA by geographical location (i.e., metropolitan vs non-metropolitan areas). Moreover, all participants spent more time on moderate, vigorous, and moderate to vigorous PA on weekdays than on weekends (p < 0.05). Compliance with international PA recommendations also showed a sex difference (males > females) and change between weekdays and weekends with no difference by geographical location. While geographical location does not seem to be a relevant factor, sex and time of the week appear to influence the SB and PA patterns in Mexican adolescents.

Keywords

accelerometry; low-medium income country; movement behaviours; youths

Subject

Public Health and Healthcare, Other

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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