Background: Increasing school-day physical activity through policy and programs is commonly suggested to prevent obesity and improve overall child health. However, strategies that focus on school-day physical activity may not increase total physical activity if youth compensate by reducing physical activity outside of school. Purpose: Objectively measured, nationally representative physical ...
Introduction Tri-axial accelerometers record the acceleration of people’s daily activity on three orthogonal directions. One fundamental question is how to decipher and interpret the acceleration signals into meaningful information such as types of human movement. Purpose We provide statistical methods for predicting activity type and answer the following questions: 1) ...
Introduction The field of physical activity monitoring has developed rapidly over the last decade. It is becoming more common to apply accelerometer-based physical activity monitors in large population based samples. The researchers are faced with large variety of choices regarding settings including wear and non-wear criteria. As no consensus has ...
Purpose Understanding fluctuations in lifestyle indicators is important to identify relevant time periods to intervene in order to promote a healthy lifestyle; however, objective assessment of multiple lifestyle indicators has never been done using a repeated-measures design. The primary aim was, therefore, to examine between-season and within-week variation in physical ...
Introduction Given its associations with morbidity and mortality, sedentary behaviour (SB) has emerged as a potentially significant public health issue. Although most studies of relationships between SB and health outcomes acknowledge that some sort of adjustment should be made for physical activity, there is no consensus on the approach for ...
Introduction Sedentary behavior (SB) has been defined as any purposefully engaged activity that is mainly dominated by prolonged sitting with low energy expenditure (METs<1.5). Objective measures (e.g., accelerometer) has widely been used for monitoring SB in free-living settings; however, relatively little effort has been made to develop an ...
Introduction Self-reported sleep duration is widely used but may not provide accurate information. Correlations between objective estimates of sleep and self-reported data only demonstrate if a relationship is present but do not determine if the two measures agree. We sought to determine levels of agreement between two self-reported average weekday ...
Background: This randomised controlled trial demonstrates the effectiveness of a value-based intervention program to encourage a physically more active lifestyle among physically inactive adults aged 30 to 50 years. The conceptual framework of the program is based on an innovative behavioural therapy called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) that aims to increase ...
Introduction Physical activity is known to prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, the relative importance of accumulating physical activity in sustained bouts versus shorter bouts in terms of CVD risk is yet to be determined. Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), ...
Introduction While many studies report lower daily physical activity (PA) in older compared with young adults, few have focused on how PA patterns may vary over the course of a day. Our working hypothesis is that older adults who report fatigue may adjust their behavior such that they accumulate relatively ...