Measurement of adults' sedentary time in population-based studies
Sedentary time (too much sitting) increasingly is being recognized as a distinct health risk behavior. This paper reviews the reliability and validity of self-reported and device-based sedentary time measures and provides recommendations for their use in population-based studies. The focus is on ins...
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| author | Healy, Genevieve Clark, B. Winkler, E. Gardiner, P. Brown, W. Matthews, C. |
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| description | Sedentary time (too much sitting) increasingly is being recognized as a distinct health risk behavior. This paper reviews the reliability and validity of self-reported and device-based sedentary time measures and provides recommendations for their use in population-based studies. The focus is on instruments that have been used in free-living, population-based research in adults. Data from the 2003-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey are utilized to compare the descriptive epidemiology of sedentary time that arises from the use of different sedentary time measures. A key recommendation from this review is that, wherever possible, population-based monitoring of sedentary time should incorporate both self-reported measures (to capture important domain- and behavior-specific sedentary time information) and device-based measures (to measure both total sedentary time and patterns of sedentary time accumulation). |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-276662018-03-29T09:08:01Z Measurement of adults' sedentary time in population-based studies Healy, Genevieve Clark, B. Winkler, E. Gardiner, P. Brown, W. Matthews, C. Sedentary time (too much sitting) increasingly is being recognized as a distinct health risk behavior. This paper reviews the reliability and validity of self-reported and device-based sedentary time measures and provides recommendations for their use in population-based studies. The focus is on instruments that have been used in free-living, population-based research in adults. Data from the 2003-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey are utilized to compare the descriptive epidemiology of sedentary time that arises from the use of different sedentary time measures. A key recommendation from this review is that, wherever possible, population-based monitoring of sedentary time should incorporate both self-reported measures (to capture important domain- and behavior-specific sedentary time information) and device-based measures (to measure both total sedentary time and patterns of sedentary time accumulation). 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27666 10.1016/j.amepre.2011.05.005 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Healy, Genevieve Clark, B. Winkler, E. Gardiner, P. Brown, W. Matthews, C. Measurement of adults' sedentary time in population-based studies |
| title | Measurement of adults' sedentary time in population-based studies |
| title_full | Measurement of adults' sedentary time in population-based studies |
| title_fullStr | Measurement of adults' sedentary time in population-based studies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measurement of adults' sedentary time in population-based studies |
| title_short | Measurement of adults' sedentary time in population-based studies |
| title_sort | measurement of adults' sedentary time in population-based studies |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27666 |