Sitting time among adolescents across 26 Asia–Pacific countries: a population-based study

Asaduzzaman Khan (), Riaz Uddin, Eun-Young Lee and Mark S. Tremblay
Additional contact information
Asaduzzaman Khan: The University of Queensland
Riaz Uddin: The University of Queensland
Eun-Young Lee: Queen’s University
Mark S. Tremblay: CHEO Research Institute

International Journal of Public Health, 2019, vol. 64, issue 8, No 4, 1129-1138

Abstract: Abstract Objectives To assess the prevalence of sitting time (ST) and examine sex and age disparities in the prevalence among adolescents from Asia–Pacific countries. Methods We used the Global School-based Student Health Survey data (n = 101,785) from 26 Asia–Pacific countries and computed the pooled prevalence of high ST (≥ 3 h/day) using random effect meta-analysis. We used logistic regression to examine sex and age disparities in the prevalence, and meta-regression to assess whether the prevalence was associated with common global indices. Results The overall prevalence of ST was 29.9% (95% CI 24.1–35.8) with 29.8% (24.4–35.2) among male and 29.9% (23.4–36.3) female adolescents. Males had higher odds of high ST than females in seven countries, while females had higher odds in six countries. Older adolescents had higher prevalence than their younger counterparts. High ST was more common in high-income countries and was positively associated with country Human Development Index (β = 1.28, 95% CI 0.88–1.68). Conclusion Continued monitoring of adolescents’ ST is warranted in this region to generate consistent and comparable surveillance data that can inform policies and actions for the health and well-being of the regional adolescents.

Keywords: Active lifestyle; Adolescent health; GSHS; Pacific islands; Sedentary behaviour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00038-019-01282-5 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:ijphth:v:64:y:2019:i:8:d:10.1007_s00038-019-01282-5

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/00038

DOI: 10.1007/s00038-019-01282-5

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Public Health is currently edited by Thomas Kohlmann, Nino Künzli and Andrea Madarasova Geckova

More articles in International Journal of Public Health from Springer, Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+)
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().