Validation of the WHI Brief Physical Activity Questionnaire among Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer

Johnson-Kozlow, Marilyn; Rock, Cheryl L.; Gilpin, Elizabeth A.; Hollenbach, Kathryn A.; Pierce, John P.

doi:10.5993/ajhb.31.2.8

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“…The short IPAQ did not provide data on specific domains of physical activity (e.g., transportation, recreation) that may have produced stronger associations with neighborhood characteristics. 31,35 The IPAQ has been shown to overestimate physical activity, [25][26][27] so actual prevalence rates are likely not as high as those reported here. IPAQ reliability and validity appear to vary by the country's level of development.…”

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confidence: 89%

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Neighborhood Environments and Physical Activity Among Adults in 11 Countries

Sallis

Bowles

Bauman

et al. 2009

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

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confidence: 89%

“…24 However, the IPAQ is known to produce higher prevalence rates than other self-report surveys, [25][26][27] in part because IPAQ assesses all physical activity domains.…”

Section: Relation Of Environmental Attributes To Meeting Health-enhanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neighborhood Environments and Physical Activity Among Adults in 11 Countries

Sallis

Bowles

Bauman

et al. 2009

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

415

365

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“…In general, it appears that the long version of IPAQ is relatively good at identifying active members of the community, possibly due to the typical over-reporting of IPAQ data (41,44) , but is relatively poor at identifying those who need to accrue greater levels of PA. When compared with IPAQ, the 7 d Physical Activity Recall (PAR) (45) has been shown to provide markedly higher levels of specificity and sensitivity, which was attributed to the PAR focusing more on leisure activity compared with the four domains of activity in the IPAQ (41) . As an important aim of public health is to promote adequate activity levels at a community level, the fact that IPAQ-LC was poor at identifying those truly in need of greater activity remains a limitation of IPAQ-LC as a surveillance tool.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…One other study reporting the sensitivity and specificity of the IPAQ long form has produced respective percentages of 71 % and 59 % (41) . In general, it appears that the long version of IPAQ is relatively good at identifying active members of the community, possibly due to the typical over-reporting of IPAQ data (41,44) , but is relatively poor at identifying those who need to accrue greater levels of PA.…”

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Examining the validity and reliability of the Chinese version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire, long form (IPAQ-LC)

Macfarlane

Chan

Cerin

2010

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To investigate the reliability and the validity of the long format, Chinese version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ-LC). Design: Cross-sectional study, examining the reliability and validity of the IPAQ-LC compared with a physical activity log (PA-log) and objective accelerometry. Setting: Self-reported physical activity (PA) in Hong Kong adults. Subjects: A total of eighty-three Chinese adults (forty-seven males, thirty-six females) were asked to wear an ActiTrainer accelerometer (MTI-ActiGraph, Fort Walton Beach, FL, USA) for .10 h over 7 d, to complete a PA-log at the end of each day and to complete the IPAQ-LC on day 8. On a sub-sample of twenty-eight adults the IPAQ-LC was also administered on day 11 to assess its reliability. Results: The IPAQ-LC had good test-retest reliability for grouped activities, with intra-class correlation coefficients ranging from 0?74 to 0?97 for vigorous, moderate, walking and total PA, with between-test effect sizes that were small (,0?49). The Spearman correlation coefficients were statistically significant for vigorous PA (r 5 0?28), moderate 1 walking PA (r 5 0?27), as well as overall PA (r 5 0?35), when compared with the accelerometry-based criterion measures, but none of the IPAQ activity categories correlated significantly with the PA-log. In absolute units, only the IPAQ light and overall PA did not differ significantly from the accelerometry measures, yet overall PA was able to faithfully discriminate between quartiles of PA (P 5 0?019) when compared to accelerometry. Conclusions:The IPAQ-LC demonstrated adequate reliability and showed sufficient evidence of validity in assessing overall levels of habitual PA to be used on Hong Kong adults.

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“…This questionnaire assessed the frequency, duration, and speed of walking outside the home, as well as frequency and duration of participating in intensity levels of exercise (e.g., mild, moderate, and strenuous). The WHEL physical activity measures have been validated against physical activity recalls and objective accelerometry-based assessments [22]. We converted physical activity into units of metabolic equivalent (MET) hours per week and categorized into quintiles of distribution, as was previously published [23,24].…”

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confidence: 99%