Reliability and validity of the international physical activity questionnaire in the Nord-Trøndelag health study (HUNT) population of men

Kurtze, Nanna; Rangul, Vegar; Hustvedt, Bo-Egil

doi:10.1186/1471-2288-8-63

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“…These correlations are comparable to results of other studies that have compared accelerometer-measured PA with questionnaires among various populations, including the IPAQ (Hagstromer et al, 2006;Hallal et al, 2010;Nicaise et al, 2011), IPAQshort version (Macfarlane et al, 2007;Kurtze et al, 2008), Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (Bull et al, 2009;Trinh et al, 2009), Epic Physical Activity Questionnaire (Cust et al, 2008), and Modifiable Physical Activity Questionnaire (Jacobi et al, 2009) (Coleman et al, 2012). Results showed that PA levels assessed by the PA questionnaires associated with the NHANES and BRFSS surveys were higher than the PA levels arising from the EVS.…”

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Validity of Two Brief Physical Activity Questionnaires with Accelerometers among African American Women

Joseph

Keller

Ainsworth

2015

Medicine &Amp; Science in Sports &Amp; Exercise

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Aim-To evaluate the validity of the Stanford Brief Activity Survey (SBAS) and Exercise Vital Sign (EVS) questionnaire against accelerometer-determined time in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) among African-American (AA) women.Background-Limited research has evaluated the validity of brief physical activity (PA) questionnaires among AA women. Since the validity of PA questionnaires may differ among members of varying racial/ethnic groups, research is needed to explore the validity of self-report PA measures among AA women.

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Section: Validitysupporting

confidence: 85%

Validity of Two Brief Physical Activity Questionnaires with Accelerometers among African American Women

Joseph

Keller

Ainsworth

2015

Medicine &Amp; Science in Sports &Amp; Exercise

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“…A total of 152 ESr values across five PA categories in IPAQ were retrieved (i.e. seventeen ESr from ten studies for walking (16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25) , seventeen ESr from twelve studies for MPA (16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)26,27) , twenty-three ESr from ten studies for TMPA (21,24,25,(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33) , thirty-five ESr from seventeen studies for VPA (16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33) and sixty ESr from sixteen studies for TPA (7,(17)…”

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Convergent validity of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ): meta-analysis

Kim¹,

Park²,

Kang³

2012

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: The purpose of the present study was to use a meta-analytic approach to examine the convergent validity of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). Design: Systematic review by meta-analysis. Setting: The relevant studies were surveyed from five electronic databases. Primary outcomes of interest were the product-moment correlation coefficients between IPAQ and other instruments. Five separate meta-analyses were performed for each physical activity (PA) category of IPAQ: walking, moderate PA (MPA), total moderate PA (TMPA), vigorous PA (VPA) and total PA (TPA). The corrected mean effect size (ESr) unaffected by statistical artefacts (i.e. sampling error and reliability) was calculated for each PA category. Selected moderator variables were length of IPAQ (i.e. short and long form), reference period (i.e. last 7 d and usual week), mode of administration (i.e. interviewer and self-reported), language (i.e. English and translated) and instruments (i.e. accelerometer, pedometer and subjective measure). Subjects: A total of 152 ESr across five PA categories were retrieved from twentyone studies. Results:The results showed small-to medium-sized ESr (0?27-0?49). The highest value was observed in VPA while the lowest value was found in MPA. The ESr were differentiated by some of the moderator variables across PA categories. Conclusions: The study shows the overall convergent validity of IPAQ within each PA category. Some differences in degree of convergent validity across PA categories and moderator variables imply that different research conditions should be taken into account prior to deciding on use of the appropriate type of IPAQ. Keywords IPAQ Convergent validityMeta-analysis Physical activity Physical activity (PA) has been regarded as one of the most important habitual behaviours which leads to a healthy life by preventing diseases and increasing health benefits (1)(2)(3)(4)(5) . As the importance of PA has been emphasized, attempts have been made to develop appropriate measurement tools, including objective and subjective measurement tools, to quantify the amount of PA in daily life. Of these, questionnaires remain the most widely used measurement tool in large-scale studies due to their efficiency of measuring PA levels in large populations (6) .The International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) is an instrument which was developed by the International Consensus Group in 1998-1999 to establish a standardized and culturally adaptable measurement tool across various populations in the world (7) . IPAQ is designed to assess the levels of habitual PA for individuals ranging from young to middle-aged adults (i.e. 15-69 years old). In addition, there are different forms of IPAQ depending on several variations which include length of questionnaire (i.e. short or long form), reference period (i.e. last 7 d or usual week) and mode of administration (i.e. self-report or interviewer-based).Soon after IPAQ was developed it was translated into several different languages and numerous...

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“…While the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) showed relatively good validity in adults and adolescents aged 15-18 years, the correlations for children below that age were unsatisfactorily low (21,33,34) . The Children's Leisure Activities Study Survey (CLASS) was developed to assess PA behaviour in large-scale population studies and contains a list of thirty activities.…”

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Validation and extension of a simple questionnaire to assess physical activity in pre-school children

Bayer

Jarczok

Fischer

et al. 2012

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To (i) validate a recently proposed questionnaire tool for the simple assessment of physical activity (PA) in pre-school children by comparison with accelerometry and heart-rate recordings; and (ii) extend the tool by adding more questions to improve validity and to refine the classification from two to three categories (PA low, medium, high). Setting: Baseline data of an intervention evaluation study. Subjects: Pre-school children. Design: Children were categorized as either physically active or non-active, based on their parents' answers to the five-item questionnaire. Activity and heart rate were recorded for 6 d (Actiheart device; CamNtech, Cambridge, UK). Nightly sleeping periods were removed and mean accelerometry counts (MACT), time spent in moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA) and time spent in sedentary behaviour (SB) were computed. In a second step, additional questions that improved validity were added, resulting in an extended seven-item questionnaire. Results: For 748 (90?4 %) of the participating children aged 2?3-6?7 years, the questionnaires were filled out sufficiently for classification. Children classified as physically active showed 9?6 % higher MACT (P , 0?0003), spent more time in MVPA and insignificantly less time in SB. Using the extended questionnaire, children with PA classified as medium (reference: low) showed 11?0 % more MACT, spent 11?8 % more time in MVPA and 4?8 % less time in SB. Children with PA classified as high showed 16?9 % more MACT, spent 20?2 % more time in MVPA and 7?2 % less time in SB. Conclusions: With validated PA questionnaires for pre-school children lacking, the proposed questionnaire might be a reasonable option to include for PA assessment in epidemiological studies where more elaborate measurements are unavailable.

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Reliability and validity of the international physical activity questionnaire in the Nord-Trøndelag health study (HUNT) population of men

Cited by 192 publications

References 24 publications

Validity of Two Brief Physical Activity Questionnaires with Accelerometers among African American Women

Validity of Two Brief Physical Activity Questionnaires with Accelerometers among African American Women

Convergent validity of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ): meta-analysis

Validation and extension of a simple questionnaire to assess physical activity in pre-school children

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