Physical Activity Questionnaire for children and adolescents: English norms and cut‐off points

Abstract

The normative and criterion-referenced PAQ values may be used to standardize and categorize PAQ scores in future youth population studies.

Cut-off values for classifying active children and adolescentes using the Physical Activity Questionnaire: PAQ-C and PAQ-A

“…Details to assess the PAQ-A score as cardiorespiratory fitness parameter have been published for English children. Our results are similar to obtained in the study of Voss et al (29), in which a cut-off points of 2.9 for boys and 2.7 for girls were established, using cardiorespiratory fitness as the criterion- Table III. PAQ-C score and steps/day cut-off points and sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratios and predictive values, based on PA recommendations referenced standard.…”

Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Relative to Body Mass Index among School Children in Saudi Arabia

“…Normative PAQ data for English youth reported cut off scores of all ages and therefore found an average mean of 3.007 (0.720) for boys and 2.695 (0.628) for girls [32]. The mean activity score for boys was 3.29 (SD=0.66), whereas the mean activity score for girls was 3.16 (SD=0.62) by a study reported by Welk et al [52].…”

“…As the PAQ are not designed to provide measures of time or intensity, classification relative to PA guidelines is impossible. Instead, various arbitrary PAQ-C score cut-off points have been proposed to categorize according to their selfreported PA [32]. Chen et al assigned PAQ scores ≤ 2 as "low activity, " >2 and ≤ 3 as "moderate activity, " and >3 as "high activity" [42].Therefore the total proportion PAQ-C scores are categorized as 26.3% children as low (≤ 2), 51.5%moderate (>2 and ≤ 3) and 22.1% high activity (>3).…”

“…[32][33][34] and objectively (pedometers and accelerometers) [35][36][37]. Questionnaires are feasible method of obtaining physical activity among children with relative ease, cost effective and noninvasive manner in large population.…”

Decline in Physical Activity Among Iranian Girl Students Aged 10 to 16 and the Related Factors

“…The physical activity questionnaires for adolescents or children (PAQ-A/C) were used to assess students RPA level (20). PAQ-A/C is a self-report instrument to assess last week RPA of adolescents and older children that includes 9 questions.…”