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. 2020 Aug 3;17(15):5587.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph17155587.

Socio-Demographic Correlates of Total and Domain-Specific Sedentary Behavior in Latin America: A Population-Based Study

Gerson Luis de Moraes Ferrari  1 , André Oliveira Werneck  2 , Danilo Rodrigues da Silva  3 , Irina Kovalskys  4 , Georgina Gómez  5 , Attilio Rigotti  6 , Lilia Yadira Cortés Sanabria  7 , Martha Cecilia Yépez García  8 , Rossina G Pareja  9 , Marianella Herrera-Cuenca  10 , Ioná Zalcman Zimberg  11 , Viviana Guajardo  4 , Michael Pratt  12 , Cristian Cofre Bolados  1 , Rodrigo Fuentes Kloss  1 , Scott Rollo  13   14 , Mauro Fisberg  15   16
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Socio-Demographic Correlates of Total and Domain-Specific Sedentary Behavior in Latin America: A Population-Based Study

Gerson Luis de Moraes Ferrari et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify socio-demographic correlates of total and domain-specific sedentary behavior (SB).

Methods: Cross-sectional findings are based on 9218 participants (15-65 years) from the Latin American Study of Nutrition and Health. Data were collected between September 2014 and February 2015. Participants reported time spent in SB across specific domains. Sex, age, ethnicity, socioeconomic (SEL), and education level were used as sociodemographic indicators.

Results: Participants spent a total of 373.3 min/day engaged in total SB. Men, younger adults, other ethnicities, higher SEL and educational level presented higher total SB when compared with women, older adults, white/Caucasian, and low SEL and educational level. Men spent more time on the playing videogames (b: 32.8: 95% CI: 14.6;51.1) and riding in an automobile (40.5: 31.3; 49.8). Computer time, reading, socializing or listening to music was higher in younger participants (<30 years) compared with those ≥50 years in the total sample. Compared to the low SEL and educational level groups, middle (11.7: 5.7; 17.6) and higher (15.1: 5.3; 24.9) SEL groups as well as middle (9.8: 3.6; 15.9) and higher (16.6: 6.5; 26.8) education level groups reported more time spent reading.

Conclusion: Socio-demographic characteristics are associated with SB patterns (total and specific) across Latin American countries.

Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02226627.

Keywords: Latin America; epidemiology; screen-time; sedentary behavior; sitting; sociodemographic.

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Conflict of interest statement

All authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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