Research Article

Effects of Short-Term Physical Activity Interventions on Simple and Choice Response Times

Table 1

Descriptive data for the subjects. Physical activity (PA) data are total median (mean ± SD) minutes per week using REMM analysis. There were two participants from the group intervention arm who had missing preintervention RT data.

GroupPedometerAll interventionControls

380263643135
Age at enrolment; mean ± SD (yr)33.6 ()40.0 ()36.7 ()39.1 ()
Gender (% F)73767471
Preintervention PA (min/wk)60 (60 ± 41)60 (65 ± 42)60 (62 ± 41)405 (477 ± 270)
Postintervention PA (min/wk)510 (556 ± 296)270 (365 ± 308)420 (478 ± 315)
3-month PA (min/wk)265 (309 ± 236)220 (286 ± 238)240 (293 ± 237)
6-month PA (min/wk)240 (284 ± 272)240 (301 ± 275)240 (294 ± 273)395 (505 ± 388)
12-month PA (min/wk)180 (270 ± 224)200 (248 ± 211)195 (256 ± 216)365 (468 ± 366)