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Table 1 Demographic and social characteristics of participants with accelerometry measurements. Descriptive results are presented for workers working at the office (WAO) and from home (WFH) and stratified by normal-weight (body mass index [BMI] < 25 kg/m2) and  overweight (BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2) workers in each location

From: Working at the office or from home during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study of temporal patterns of sitting and non-sitting among normal-weight and overweight Brazilian office workers

 

Work at the office (WAO)

Work from home (WFH)

 

All workers

n = 43

BMI < 25

n = 21

BMI ≥ 25

n = 22

All workers

n = 73

BMI < 25

n = 33

BMI ≥ 25

n = 40

Gender, n (%)a

      

 Women

21 (48.8)

12 (57.1)

9 (40.9)

39 (53.4)

18 (54.5)

21 (52.5)

 Men

22 (51.2)

9 (42.9)

13 (59.1)

34 (46.6)

15 (45.5)

19 (47.5)

Age (years), mean (SD)a

39.3 (9.3)

38.1 (9.3)

40.5 (9.4)

33.5 (9.2)

33.2 (9.0)

33.7 (9.4)

Company position, n (%)a

      

 Manager

15 (34.9)

6 (28.6)

9 (40.9)

5 (6.8)

2 (6.1)

3 (7.5)

 Employee

28 (65.1)

15 (71.4)

13 (59.1)

68 (93.2)

31 (93.9)

37 (92.5)

Smokers (yes), n (%)a

4 (9.3)

3 (14.3)

1 (4.5)

3 (4.1)

1 (3.0)

2 (5.0)

Household worka

      

 Perform (yes), n (%)

32 (74.4)

16 (76.2)

16 (72.7)

59 (80.8)

30 (90.9)

29 (72.5)

 Minutes per day, mean (SD)

56.7 (46.7)

66.2 (55.5)

47.7 (35.4)

65.0 (48.4)

71.4 (42.7)

59.8 (52.6)

BMI (kg/m2), mean (SD)b

26.5 (5.1)

22.7 (1.7)

30.2 (4.5)

26.8 (4.8)

22.5 (1.7)

30.3 (3.6)

Accelerometer datab

      

 Total hours recorded

5328

2568

2760

8592

3984

4608

 Days per worker, mean (SD)

5.2 (0.4)

5.1 (0.3)

5.2 (0.5)

4.9 (0.7)

5.0 (0.3)

4.8 (0.9)

 Hours per worker, mean (SD)

123.9 (10.4)

122.3 (7.2)

125.5 (12.7)

117.7 (17.5)

120.7 (7.3)

115.2 (22.5)

  1. aSelf-reported information from online questionnaire
  2. bDirectly measured