Table 3 Objectively measured habitual school-time^a physical activity and sedentary behaviour for intervention and control groups at T0, T1 and T2

From: Effects of a peer-led Walking In ScHools intervention (the WISH study) on physical activity levels of adolescent girls: a cluster randomised pilot study

	Control (n = 48)		Intervention (n = 41)		Group time (p)^b
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Group time (p)^b
Sedentary^c					0.010
Baseline (T0)	309.94	24.81	325.08	18.90
End of intervention (T1)^d	310.41	38.11	317.12^e	22.96
4mths post-intervention (T2)^f	319.89^g,h	26.46	334.92^g,h	20.90
Light PA^c					0.011
Baseline (T0)	118.73	19.88	105.18	16.83
End of intervention (T1)^d	117.94	20.09	112.47^e	20.63
4mths post-intervention (T2)^f	104.08^g,h	17.36	96.95^g,h	18.07
Moderate PA^c					0.015
Baseline (T0)ⁱ	16.88	6.86	15.21	6.09
End of intervention (T1)^d	20.50^e	8.26	17.41^e	5.99
4mths post-intervention (T2)	19.39^g	7.11	14.82^h	5.83
Vigorous PA^c					0.056
Baseline (T0)	5.44	4.39	5.09	3.96
End of intervention (T1)	6.62	6.50	3.99	3.41
4mths post-intervention (T2)	5.30	4.62	3.74^g	2.79
Total PA^c					0.002
Baseline (T0)ⁱ	141.06	24.81	125.48	19.20
End of intervention (T1)^d	145.07	27.67	133.88^e	22.96
4mths post-intervention (T2)^f	128.76^g,h	22.44	115.50^g,h	21.09

PA Physical activity
^aSchool-time filter (08:30–16:00)
^bDifferences between groups compared using mixed between-within subjects ANOVA
^cEvenson [35]
^dSignificantly different (p < 0.05) changes between groups from T1 to T2
^eSignificantly different (p < 0.05) changes within groups from T0 to T1
^fSignificantly different (p < 0.05) changes between groups from T0 to T2
^gSignificantly different (p < 0.05) changes within groups from T0 to T2
^hSignificantly different (p < 0.05) within groups from T1 to T2
ⁱSignificantly different (p < 0.05) changes between groups from T0 to T1

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