A Study of the Effects of Daily Physical Activity on Memory and Attention Capacities in College Students

Table 1

Descriptive statistics of DPA, memory capacity, and attention capacity.

	Measure	On the day before the test date	During the week before the test date
		(Male = 16); DPs = 279; Mean (SD)	(Male = 10); DPs = 111; Mean (SD)
Daily physical activity
Calories	Calories	2347.27 (490.97)	16,435.97 (2920.77)
Steps	Steps	9084.68 (3467.87)	63,828.14 (21,894.72)
Distance	km	06.36 (02.45)	44.47 (15.54)
Floors	Floors	21.74 (13.96)	136.54 (68.24)
Elevation	Miles	65.74 (42.52)	412.97 (207.80)
Sedentary time duration	Minutes	795.42 (186.21)	5336.23 (759.71)
LATD	Minutes	168.80 (87.41)	1337.76 (411.19)
FATD	Minutes	22.25 (20.05)	176.52 (137.58)
VATD	Minutes	24.08 (22.75)	138.18 (109.42)
Memory and attention tests
SST	Capability	07.04 (00.84)	07.05 (00.83)
TMT-A	Minutes	45.00 (10.58)	43.18 (11.03)
TMT-B	Minutes	56.59 (16.25)	53.13 (16.55)

DPs: day-participants; LATD: lightly active time duration; FATD: fairly active time duration; VATD: very active time duration; SST: spatial span test; TMT: trail making test.