A comparison of indirect versus direct measures for assessing physical activity in the pediatric population: a systematic review

KB Adamo, SA Prince, AC Tricco… - … Journal of Pediatric …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Background. Accurate assessment of physical activity (PA) in children and adolescents is
required to establish PA levels, monitor changes and inform public healthy policy. This study …

Physical activity in preschoolers: understanding prevalence and measurement issues

M Oliver, GM Schofield, GS Kolt - Sports medicine, 2007 - Springer
Accurate physical activity quantification in preschoolers is essential to establish physical
activity prevalence, dose-response relationships between activity and health outcomes, and …

Accelerometer-derived physical activity levels of preschoolers: a meta-analysis

DB Bornstein, MW Beets, W Byun, K McIver - Journal of Science and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Objectives: This study synthesized the published estimates of daily moderate-to-vigorous
physical activity (MVPAd− 1) of preschooler-age children (3–5years). Design: Meta-analysis …

Prevalence of compliance with a new physical activity guideline for preschool-age children

RR Pate, JR O'Neill, WH Brown, KA Pfeiffer… - Childhood …, 2015 - liebertpub.com
Background: Four expert panels from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the
United States issued physical activity (PA) recommendations for young children that are …

Moderate‐to‐vigorous physical activity among children: discrepancies in accelerometry‐based cut‐off points

CB Guinhouya, H Hubert, S Soubrier, C Vilhelm… - …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: To highlight the discrepancies in accelerometry cut‐off points of moderate‐to‐
vigorous physical activity (MVPA) according to the definitions of Puyau et al.(MVPAP) and …

[HTML][HTML] Subjective versus objective measure of physical activity: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the convergent validity of the Physical Activity …

D Marasso, C Lupo, S Collura, A Rainoldi… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study aimed to highlight the relationship between moderate-to-vigorous physical activity
(MVPA) as assessed by accelerometer devices and the Physical Activity Questionnaire for …

Reliability and validity of a single‐item physical activity measure for adolescents

JJ Scott, PJ Morgan, RC Plotnikoff… - Journal of Paediatrics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aims The aim of this study was to examine the test–retest reliability and concurrent validity of
an adolescent single‐item physical activity measure by comparing it with the existing O xford …

State of the art reviews: measurement of physical activity in children and adolescents

SG Trost - American Journal of lifestyle medicine, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
To date, a wide range of methods has been used to measure physical activity in children
and adolescents. These include self-report methods such as questionnaires, activity logs …

Objective monitoring of physical activity in children: considerations for instrument selection

JJ McClain, C Tudor-Locke - Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 2009 - Elsevier
There has been a rapid recent increase in both the number and type of objective physical
activity (PA) assessment instruments which are commercially available to researchers …

Objective measurement of physical activity and sedentary behaviour: review with new data

JJ Reilly, V Penpraze, J Hislop, G Davies… - Archives of disease in …, 2008 - adc.bmj.com
Objective methods are being used increasingly for the quantification of the amount of
physical activity, intensity of physical activity and amount of sedentary behaviour in children …