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Title: | Physical activity and sedentary behaviour in daily life: A comparative analysis of the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ) and the SenseWear armband | Authors: | LAEREMANS, Michelle DONS, Evi Avila-Palencia, Ione Carrasco-Turigas, Gloria Pablo Orjuela, Juan Anaya, Esther Brand, Christian Cole-Hunter, Tom de Nazelle, Audrey Gotschi, Thomas Kahlmeier, Sonja Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark Standaert, Arnout DE BOEVER, Patrick INT PANIS, Luc |
Issue Date: | 2017 | Publisher: | PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE | Source: | PLOS ONE, 12(5), p. 1-15 (Art N° e0177765) | Abstract: | Reduction of sedentary time and an increase in physical activity offer potential to improve public health. However, quantifying physical activity behaviour under real world conditions is a major challenge and no standard of good practice is available. Our aim was to compare the results of physical activity and sedentary behaviour obtained with a self-reported instrument (Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ)) and a wearable sensor (SenseWear) in a repeated measures study design. Healthy adults (41 in Antwerp, 41 in Barcelona and 40 in London) wore the SenseWear armband for seven consecutive days and completed the GPAQ on the final day. This was repeated three times. We used the Wilcoxon signed rank sum test, Spearman correlation coefficients, mixed effects regression models and Bland-Altman plots to study agreement between both methods. Mixed models were used to assess the effect of personal characteristics on the absolute and relative difference between estimates obtained with the GPAQ and SenseWear. Moderate to vigorous energy expenditure and duration derived from the GPAQ were significantly lower (p<0.05) compared to the SenseWear, yet these variables showed significant correlations ranging from 0.45 to 0.64. Estimates of vigorous-intensity physical activity in particular showed high similarity (r>0.59). Results for sedentary behaviour did not differ, yet were poorly correlated (r<0.25). The differences between all variables were reproducible across repeated measurements. In addition, we observed a relationship between these differences and BMI, body fat and physical activity domain. Due to the lack of a standardized protocol, results from different studies measuring physical activity and sedentary behaviour are difficult to compare. Therefore, we suggested an easy-to-implement approach for future studies adding the GPAQ to the wearable of choice as a basis for comparisons. | Notes: | [Laeremans, Michelle; Dons, Evi; Standaert, Arnout; De Boever, Patrick; Panis, Luc Int] Flemish Inst Technol Res VITO, Environm Risk & Hlth Unit MRG, Mol, Belgium. [Laeremans, Michelle; Panis, Luc Int] Hasselt Univ, Transportat Res Inst IMOB, Diepenbeek, Belgium. [Dons, Evi; De Boever, Patrick] Hasselt Univ, Ctr Environm Sci, Diepenbeek, Belgium. [Avila-Palencia, Ione; Carrasco-Turigas, Gloria; Cole-Hunter, Tom; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark] Ctr Res Environm Epidemiol, ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain. [Avila-Palencia, Ione; Carrasco-Turigas, Gloria; Cole-Hunter, Tom; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark] Univ Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. [Avila-Palencia, Ione; Carrasco-Turigas, Gloria; Cole-Hunter, Tom; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark] CIBER Epidemiol & Salud Publ, Madrid, Spain. [Pablo Orjuela, Juan; Anaya, Esther; de Nazelle, Audrey] Imperial Coll London, CEP, London, England. [Brand, Christian] Univ Oxford, Transport Studies Unit, Oxford, England. [Cole-Hunter, Tom] Colorado State Univ, Dept Environm & Radiol Hlth Sci, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA. [Gotschi, Thomas; Kahlmeier, Sonja] Univ Zurich, Epidemiol Biostat & Prevent Inst, Phys Act & Hlth Unit, Zurich, Switzerland. | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/23927 | ISSN: | 1932-6203 | e-ISSN: | 1932-6203 | DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0177765 | ISI #: | 000401485500068 | Rights: | © 2017 Laeremans et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2018 |
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