Correlates of change in accelerometer-assessed total sedentary time and prolonged sedentary bouts among older English adults : results from five-year follow-up in the EPIC-Norfolk cohort

BACKGROUND: Development of effective strategies to reduce sedentary time among older adults necessitates understanding of its determinants but longitudinal studies of this utilising objective measures are scarce.

METHODS: Among 1536 older adults (≥60 years) in the EPIC-Norfolk study, sedentary time was assessed for seven days at two time-points using accelerometers. We assessed associations of change in total and prolonged bouts of sedentary time (≥ 30 minutes) with change in demographic and behavioural factors using multi-level regression.

RESULTS: Over follow-up (5.3±1.9 years), greater increases in total sedentary time were associated with older age, being male, higher rate of increase in BMI, lower rate of increase in gardening (0.5 min/day/yr greater sedentary time per hour/week/yr less gardening, 95% CI 0.1, 1.0), a lower rate of increase in walking (0.2 min/day/yr greater sedentary time per hour/week/yr less walking, 95% CI 0.1, 0.3) and a higher rate of increase in television viewing. Correlates of change in prolonged sedentary bouts were similar.

CONCLUSION: Individuals in specific sub-groups (older, male, higher BMI) and who differentially participate in certain behaviours (less gardening, less walking and more television viewing) but not others increase their sedentary time at a higher rate than others; utilising this information could inform successful intervention content and targeting.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Aging - 13(2021), 1 vom: 11. Jan., Seite 134-149

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yerrakalva, Dharani [VerfasserIn]
Hajna, Samantha [VerfasserIn]
Wijndaele, Katrien [VerfasserIn]
Westgate, Kate [VerfasserIn]
Khaw, Kay-Tee [VerfasserIn]
Wareham, Nick [VerfasserIn]
Griffin, Simon J [VerfasserIn]
Brage, Soren [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Bouts
Correlates
Epidemiology
Journal Article
Older adults
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Sedentary

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Date Completed 03.05.2021

Date Revised 14.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.18632/aging.202497

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM319951340