Physical activity benefits of attending a senior center depend largely on age and gender: a study using GPS and accelerometry data

Table 2 Physical activity patterns of participants that attended a senior center at least once during the week, and senior participants that did not

	N^e	Sedentary^a			LPA^b			MVPA^c			Total PA^d
	N^e	mean	SD	p^f	mean	SD	p^f	mean	SD	p^f	mean	SD	p^f
Senior center				0.054			0.899			0.695			0.917
Non-user	130	6307	1963		1405	538		17.5	30.3		1422	550
User	97	6789	1705		1414	527		16.1	22.7		1430	538
Gender				0.295			0.118			0.592			0.133
Female	126	6396	1822		1458	555		16	18.8		1474	563
Male	101	6658	1924		1347	499		17.9	35.2		1364	515
Age				0.278			0.001*			0.021*			0.001*
< 75	109	6373	1839		1531	472		21.2	26.4		1552	483
≥75	118	6642	1894		1296	562		12.8	27.6		1301	573
Female				0.546			0.566			0.270			0.547
Female, non-user	72	6311	1890		1433	565		14.4	14.6		1448	571
Female, user	54	6510	1738		1491	546		18.1	23.3		1509	557
Male				0.03*			0.605			0.266			0.564
Male, non-user	58	6302	2065		1369	507		21.3	42.3		1391	527
Male, user	43	7140	1616		1317	492		13.4	13.4		1330	503
< 75				0.394			0.889			0.806			0.881
< 75, non-user	75	6271	1878		1526	442		20.8	28.2		1547	453
< 75, user	34	6597	1753		1540	540		22.6	22.2		1562	550
≥75				0.124			0.305			0.965			0.315
≥75, non-user	55	6355	2087		1239	614		13	32.8		1252	625
≥75, user	63	6893	1684		1346	512		12.7	22.5		1359	523
Total	227	6512	1869		211.5	73.2		2.5	4.1		214.1	74.9

^a Daily time spent sedentary (minutes)
^b Daily time spent in LPA (minutes)
^c Daily time spent in MVPA (minutes)
^d Daily time spent in physical activity (light, moderate or vigorous) (minutes)
^e Number of participants
^f One way ANOVA
* Statistically significant value

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