Daily activity patterns in older adults receiving initial support: the association between daily steps and sitting in bouts of at least 60 min

Table 2 Crude and adjusted analysis

	Crude analysis			Adjusted analysis
	β^b	Confidence interval 95%^b	p^b	β^c	Confidence interval 95%^c	p^c	\( {R}^{2}\)^c
Constant^a						˂ 0.001
Sex	0.147	-0.051 - 0.222	0.216	0.279	0.053 - 0.261	0.004	0.008
Self-rated health	0.298	0.040 - 0.298	0.011	0.213	0.007 - 0.232	0.038	0.076
Walking independently outdoors	0.324	0.057 - 0.319	0.005	0.301	0.063 - 0.281	0.003	0.092
Intending to become more physically active	-0.379	-0.340 - -0.083	0.002	-0.294	-0.279 - -0.049	0.006	0.130
Fear of falling	0.091	-0.096 - -0.214	0.447	-0.238	-0.282 - -0.022	0.023	-0.006
≥ 60 min sitting bouts	-0.455	-0.396 - -0.144	˂ 0.001	-0.313	-0.300 - -0.690	0.002	0.196
Relative autonomy index	0.407	0.002 - 0.006	˂ 0.001	0.258	0.044 - 0.268	0.007	0.076
Amotivation	-0.086	-0.030 - 0.014	0.474
External regulation	-0.142	-0.042 - 0.010	0.232
Introjected regulation	0.095	-0.012 - 0.027	0.426
Identified regulation	0.333	0.006 - 0.029	0.004
Intrinsic regulation	0.409	0.009 - 0.031	˂ 0.001
Total explained variance (R²)							0.478

^a Total number of daily steps converted into a continuous variable, ^b Bivariate regression, ^c Multiple linear regression
Reference values: sex (male = 0, female = 1), self-rated health (bad or fair = 0, good = 1), walking independently outdoors (no = 0, yes = 1), intending to become more physically active (no = 0, yes = 1), fear of falling (low = 0, moderate to high = 1), ≥ 60 min bouts of sitting (two times or less per day = 0, three times or more per day = 1), relative autonomy index (low level of motivation regulation for exercise = 0, high level of motivation regulation for exercise = 1)

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