Parous women perform less moderate to vigorous physical activity than their nulliparous peers: a population-based study in Denmark

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T1 - Parous women perform less moderate to vigorous physical activity than their nulliparous peers: a population-based study in Denmark

AU - Bueno, Solvej Videbæk

AU - Nielsen, Rasmus Oestergaard

AU - Kallestrup, Per

AU - Ryom, Knud

AU - Morgan, Kelly

AU - Elsborg, Peter

AU - Bjørk Petersen, Christina

AU - Jacobsen, Julie Sandell

PY - 2024/9/24

Y1 - 2024/9/24

N2 - The World Health Organisation (WHO) highlights parous women as a key population for monitoring trends of physical activity (PA). We aimed to estimate the proportion of Danish women non-adhering to WHO PA guidelines in parous women compared with nulliparous women, and to describe leisure-time PA intensity in each of these groups.This population-based study builds on a sample of 27,668 women aged 16-40 years from the Danish National Health Survey 2021. These data were linked with childbirth data from the Danish National Birth Registry. The primary outcome was self-reported weekly hours of moderate to vigorous leisure-time PA (MVPA) dichotomized into: (i) Adhering to WHO guidelines for MVPA, or (ii) Not adhering to WHO guidelines for MVPA. Binomial regression analysis was used to calculate prevalence proportions (PP) and prevalence proportion ratios (PPR).Of the 27,668 women, a total of 20,022 were included; 9,338 (46.6%) parous women and 10,684 (53.4%) nulliparous women. The PP of women non-adhering to WHO PA guidelines was 63.8% (95% CI 62.9-64.8) for parous and 51.3% (95% CI 50.4-52.3) for nulliparous women, corresponding to a PPR of 1.24 (95% CI 1.21;1.27).The proportion of parous women who did not adhere to WHO PA guidelines for MVPA was 24% higher than that of nulliparous women. This highlights parous women as a subgroup of the adult population at increased risk of non-adherence to WHO PA guidelines. These findings call for future research to inform new strategies aiming to promote PA in parous women.This work was supported by the Health Foundation (20-B-0260).

AB - The World Health Organisation (WHO) highlights parous women as a key population for monitoring trends of physical activity (PA). We aimed to estimate the proportion of Danish women non-adhering to WHO PA guidelines in parous women compared with nulliparous women, and to describe leisure-time PA intensity in each of these groups.This population-based study builds on a sample of 27,668 women aged 16-40 years from the Danish National Health Survey 2021. These data were linked with childbirth data from the Danish National Birth Registry. The primary outcome was self-reported weekly hours of moderate to vigorous leisure-time PA (MVPA) dichotomized into: (i) Adhering to WHO guidelines for MVPA, or (ii) Not adhering to WHO guidelines for MVPA. Binomial regression analysis was used to calculate prevalence proportions (PP) and prevalence proportion ratios (PPR).Of the 27,668 women, a total of 20,022 were included; 9,338 (46.6%) parous women and 10,684 (53.4%) nulliparous women. The PP of women non-adhering to WHO PA guidelines was 63.8% (95% CI 62.9-64.8) for parous and 51.3% (95% CI 50.4-52.3) for nulliparous women, corresponding to a PPR of 1.24 (95% CI 1.21;1.27).The proportion of parous women who did not adhere to WHO PA guidelines for MVPA was 24% higher than that of nulliparous women. This highlights parous women as a subgroup of the adult population at increased risk of non-adherence to WHO PA guidelines. These findings call for future research to inform new strategies aiming to promote PA in parous women.This work was supported by the Health Foundation (20-B-0260).

U2 - 10.1093/eurpub/ckae114.177

DO - 10.1093/eurpub/ckae114.177

M3 - Conference abstract in journal

SN - 1464-360X

VL - 34

SP - ii72

JO - European Journal of Public Health

JF - European Journal of Public Health

IS - Supplement_2

ER -