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Table 4 Changes in MET-min per day over time before and after starting work, showing adjusted interactions with different individual and job characteristics. Initial slope shows baseline trend per year before employment transition, transition into work shows change in intercept immediately after starting work, and change in slope after starting work shows longer-term trends in MET-min per day each year after starting work

From: New job, new habits? A multilevel interrupted time series analysis of changes in diet, physical activity and sleep among young adults starting work for the first time

  

Initial slope [95% CI]

Transition into work [95% CI]

Change in slope after starting work [95% CI]

Overall Effect

[n = 3,080]

 

8.15 [-1.53,17.84]

113.30 [80.49,146.11]

-26.70 [-40.75,-12.66]

Sex

[n = 3,080]

Male

-1.95 [-18.39,14.49]

180.97 [124.39, 237.55]

-24.92 [-49.04,-0.80]

 

Female

17.07 [5.97,28.17]

62.58 [24.66,100.50]

-29.33 [-45.62,-13.04]

 

Interaction p-value

0.060

0.001

0.766

University Education [n = 2,753]

Attended university

11.91 [0.15, 23.67]

58.98 [14.18, 103.78]

-39.03 [-56.92, -21.15]

 

No university

5.19 [-12.86, 23.24]

168.66 [116.03, 221.28]

-21.40 [-45.13, 2.33]

 

Interaction p-value

0.541

0.002

0.245

NSSEC [n = 2,440]

High

13.76 [0.73, 26.80]

21.56 [-24.11, 67.23]

-21.55 [-39.98, -3.12]

 

Low

0.06 [-17.54, 17.67]

210.47 [156.76, 264.18]

-32.17 [-56.97, -7.37]

 

Interaction p-value

0.218

< 0.001

0.500

Work Hours

[n = 2,397]

Full-time

1.60 [-11.64, 14.84]

128.25 [80.84, 175.65]

-25.10 [-44.87, -5.33]

 

Part-time

7.25 [-11.68, 26.17]

132.19 [74.92, 189.45]

-25.07 [-50.86, 0.71]

 

Interaction p-value

0.630

0.917

0.999

Shift Times [n = 1,793]

Day time

-4.11 [-21.90, 13.68]

125.60 [70.04, 181.16]

-10.36 [-33.67, 12.95]

 

Night

-8.70 [-79.01, 61.62]

211.20 [51.64, 370.77]

-35.40 [-125.65, 54.86]

 

Interaction p-value

0.901

0.320

0.598

 

Rotate

15.16 [-8.21, 38.53]

90.22 [13.11, 167.32]

-37.79 [-71.26, -4.32]

 

Interaction p-value

0.195

0.462

0.187

Commute [n = 2,183]

Inactive

14.00 [-1.66, 29.67]

119.61 [65.17, 174.05]

-35.11 [-58.43, -11.80]

 

Active

0.97 [-16.56, 18.49]

143.41 [89.91, 196.91]

-23.12 [-47.83, 1.59]

 

Interaction p-value

0.272

0.538

0.487

 

No Commute

7.04 [-25.62, 39.70]

-125.64 [-263.64, 12.36]

40.63 [-13.16, 94.43]

 

Interaction p-value

0.706

0.001

0.011

Work Location

[n = 2,356]

Office

6.25 [-5.93, 18.43]

128.81 [89.46, 168.16]

-27.39 [-44.58, -10.19]

 

Home

6.91 [-25.77, 39.59]

-126.42 [-264.45, 11.61]

39.85 [-13.89, 93.59]

 

Interaction p-value

0.970

< 0.001

0.019

 

Travel

-3.76 [-44.06, 36.54]

243.82 [106.57, 381.08]

-47.50 [-104.96, 9.96]

 

Interaction p-value

0.641

0.114

0.510