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This study examined the associations of time spent out of home with physical activity and sedentary behavior among middle-aged and older adults. A diary survey was conducted for 7 days with 157 adults to measure out-of-home time and working status. Time spent in sedentary behavior and levels of physical activity were measured using an accelerometer. After a year, 137 individuals from the original sample participated in a follow-up survey. From the daily analyses of 535 non-working days and 347 working days, multilevel models revealed that on non-working days, more out-of-home time was associated with less sedentary time and higher levels of physical activity at both within- and between-person levels. Longitudinal analyses of non-working days supported these results. However, on working days, similar associations were not revealed by daily or longitudinal analyses. These results suggest that increasing out-of-home time could contribute to increased physical activity and reduced sedentary behavior on non-working days.
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This work was supported by the Program for Promoting the Reform of National Universities (Kobe University), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology; and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (17H04757), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
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Harada, K., Masumoto, K. & Kondo, N. Daily and longitudinal associations of out-of-home time with objectively measured physical activity and sedentary behavior among middle-aged and older adults. J Behav Med 42, 315–329 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-018-9976-x
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