Prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of meeting the Canadian 24-hour movement guidelines among latin american adults: a multi-national cross-sectional study

• Published in: BMC public health Vol. 22; no. 1; p. 217
• Main Authors: Ferrari, Gerson, Alberico, Claudia, Drenowatz, Clemens, Kovalskys, Irina, Gómez, Georgina, Rigotti, Attilio, Cortés, Lilia Yadira, García, Martha Yépez, Liria-Domínguez, Maria Reyna, Herrera-Cuenca, Marianella, Peralta, Miguel, Marques, Adilson, Pinto Marconcin, Priscila Ellen, Cristi-Montero, Carlos, Leme, Ana Carolina B., Zimberg, Ioná Zalcman, Farías-Valenzuela, Claudio, Fisberg, Mauro, Rollo, Scott
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Springer Nature 03.02.2022; BioMed Central Ltd; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: 24-h movement behaviors; Accelerometers; Adolescent; Adult; Adults; Age groups; Behavior; Canada; Clinical trials; Correlation; Cross-Sectional Studies; Demographic aspects; Education; Epidemiology; Exercise; Female; Guidelines; Health aspects; Health behavior; Health care; Humans; Latin America; Life span; Middle Aged; Nutrition; Physical activity; Physical fitness; Population; Prevalence; Public health; Regression analysis; Regression models; Sample size; Sedentary behavior; Sedentary time; Sleep; Sleep duration; Social aspects; Sociodemographics; Socioeconomic factors; Statistics; Teenagers; Young Adult; Canada; Latin America; Sedentary time; Physical activity; 24-h movement behaviors; Epidemiology; Sleep duration
• ISSN: 1471-2458; 1471-2458
• DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-12613-2

© The Author(s) 2022. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. Background: 24-hour movement behaviors, including moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), sedentary time (ST), and sleep duration, have important implications for health across the lifespan. However, no studies exist that have examined the integration of these 24-hour movement behaviors in Latin America. The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of meeting the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guideline recommendations and sociodemographic correlates of meeting the guidelines in adults from eight Latin American countries. Methods: This was a multi-national cross-sectional study of 2338 adults aged 18 to 64 years from the Latin American Study of Nutrition and Health. MVPA and ST data were collected using accelerometers. Sleep duration was self-reported using a daily log. Socio-demographic correlates included sex, age, education level, and marital status. Meeting the 24-hour movement guidelines was defined as: ≥150 min/week of MVPA; ≤8 h/day of ST; and between 7 and 9 h/day of sleep. Logistic regression models were estimated on pooled data. Results: The prevalence of adults who met the MVPA, ST, sleep duration, and integrated recommendations was 48.3, 22.0, 19.4, and 1.6%, respectively. Overall, being a woman (OR: 0.72; 95%CI: 0.55,0.93) and having a middle (0.63; 0.47,0.85) or high education level (0.31; 0.17,0.56) was associated with lower odds of meeting all three of the 24-hour movement guideline recommendations. Being married (1.70; 1.25,2.29) was associated with greater odds of meeting all three recommendations. Being a woman (0.46; 0.39,0.55), aged 50-64 years (0.77; 0.60,0.97), and married (0.79; 0.65,0.96) were associated with lower odds of meeting the MVPA recommendation. Having a middle (0.64; 0.50,0.80) or high (0.36; 0.23,0.55) education level was associated with lower odds and being married (1.86; 1.46,2.36) was associated with greater odds of meeting the ST recommendation. Being a woman (0.63; 0.51,0.78) was associated with lower odds; whereas being aged 50-64 years (1.40; 1.04,1.88) and having a middle education level (1.37; 1.09,1.73) were associated with greater odds of meeting the sleep duration recommendation. Conclusions: Overall, the proportion of Latin American adults achieving healthy levels of 24-hour movement behaviors was low. Further efforts are needed to promote more MVPA, less ST, and sufficient sleep in Latin American adults.