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Physical activity and sedentary behaviour in daily life: A comparative analysis of the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ) and the SenseWear armband

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  • Michelle Laeremans
  • Evi Dons
  • Ione Avila-Palencia
  • Glòria Carrasco-Turigas
  • Juan Pablo Orjuela
  • Esther Anaya
  • Christian Brand
  • Tom Cole-Hunter
  • Audrey de Nazelle
  • Thomas Götschi
  • Sonja Kahlmeier
  • Mark Nieuwenhuijsen
  • Arnout Standaert
  • Patrick De Boever
  • Luc Int Panis

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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 0.59). Results for sedentary behaviour did not differ, yet were poorly correlated (r

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  • Michelle Laeremans & Evi Dons & Ione Avila-Palencia & Glòria Carrasco-Turigas & Juan Pablo Orjuela & Esther Anaya & Christian Brand & Tom Cole-Hunter & Audrey de Nazelle & Thomas Götschi & Sonja Kahlm, 2017. "Physical activity and sedentary behaviour in daily life: A comparative analysis of the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ) and the SenseWear armband," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(5), pages 1-15, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0177765
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177765
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