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No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. Since the early s, the video game industry has seen extraordinary booms in product development and market growth, with the total number of video game players globally reaching 2.
Despite the rapid growth of the industry, there is little recent data investigating the time adult video game players spend sedentary playing video games and the time they spent engaged in physical activity.
The purpose of this quantitative, cross-sectional, non-experimental survey study is to describe the frequency and duration of video game play and physical activity in adult video game players. Participants completed an online survey, evaluating their demographic and health history information, video game play, and physical activity behaviors.
The mean age of the participants was Of the participants, identified as casual players, 50 amateurs, 24 semi-professionals, and 2 professionals. The participants spent over five days per week and an average of Personal computers were reported to have the longest duration of play of the four platforms investigated The total amount of time participants spent engaged in cumulative moderate-to-vigorous physical activity MVPA was an average of The majority of this time was spent engaged in occupational physical activity 5.
