Background
Methods
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Pre-testing
Final testing
Ethics approval and consent to participate
Statistical analysis
Results
Descriptive results
Total sample | |
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Age (years) | 33.1 ± 12.9 |
Gender, n (%) | |
Men | 50 (31.4) |
Women | 109 (68.6) |
Weight (kg) | 67.1 ± 14.1 |
Height (cm) | 167.2 ± 8.3 |
BMI (kg/m2) | 23.9 ± 3.9 |
BMI categories, n (%) | |
Underweight | 7 (4.4) |
Normal weight | 95 (60.1) |
Overweight | 47 (29.7) |
Obese | 9 (5.7) |
Daily MET-minutesa
| 1082.7 ± 3.7 |
Marital status, n (%) | |
Single | 100 (62.9) |
Engaged, married | 56 (35.2) |
Divorced, separated, widowed | 3 (1.9) |
Occupational status, n (%) | |
Instructors | 49 (30.8) |
Employee | 50 (31.4) |
Student | 60 (37.7) |
Financial status, n (%) | |
Wealthy | 54 (34) |
Moderately at ease | 78 (49.1) |
Lower socioeconomic status | 27 (17) |
Concurrent validity
PA Domain (minutes/week) | r |
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Job-related PA | |
Vigorous PA | 1.00** |
Moderate PA | 0.978** |
Walking PA | 0.999** |
Transportation-related PA | |
Motorized moving | 0.92** |
Bicycling | 1.00* |
Walking | 0.988** |
Housework, house maintenance-related PA | |
Garden/yard vigorous PA | 1.00* |
Garden/yard moderate PA | 0.91** |
In-house moderate PA | 0.997** |
Leisure-related PA | |
Leisure walks | 0.98** |
Vigorous leisure PA | 0.945** |
Moderate leisure PA | 1.00** |
Time spent sitting | |
Total time spent sitting | 0.981** |
Daily time spent sitting (minutes/day) | 0.989** |
Time spent sitting on a weekend (minutes/day) | 0.945** |
Content validity
Construct validity
Internal consistency reliability
A-IPAQ measure (MET.minutes/week) | Cronbach’s alpha | ICC | 95%CI |
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Total MET by PA type | 0.994* | 0.988* | 0.984–0.991 |
Total MET by PA intensity | 0.994* | 0.988* | 0.984–0.991 |
Daily MET-minutesa
| 0.99* | 0.981* | 0.974–0.986 |
PA level | 0.997* | 0.994* | 0.992–0.996 |
Total vigorous PA | 0.976* | 0.954* | 0.937–0.966 |
Total moderate PA | 0.994* | 0.988* | 0.984–0.991 |
Total walking | 0.998* | 0.997* | 0.995–0.998 |
Job-related PA | 0.995* | 0.99* | 0.986–0.993 |
Vigorous PA | 0.769* | 0.625* | 0.52–0.711 |
Moderate PA | 1.00* | 0.999* | 0.999–0.999 |
Walking | 0.998* | 0.996* | 0.995–0.997 |
Transportation-related PA | 0.964* | 0.931* | 0.907–0.949 |
Walking | 0.964* | 0.93* | 0.905–0.948 |
Bicycling | 0.998* | 0.996* | 0.994–0.997 |
Housework, House Maintenance-related PA | 0.989* | 0.978* | 0.97–0.984 |
Garden/yard vigorous activities | - | - | - |
Garden/yard moderate activities | 0.682* | 0.518* | 0.394–0.623 |
In-house moderate activities | 0.999* | 0.998* | 0.997–0.998 |
Leisure-related PA | 0.994* | 0.987* | 0.983–0.991 |
Leisure walks | 0.988* | 0.976* | 0.967–0.982 |
Vigorous leisure PA | 0.99* | 0.979* | 0.972–0.985 |
Moderate leisure PA | 0.999* | 0.998* | 0.998–0.999 |
Test-retest reliability
A-IPAQ measure (MET.minutes/week) | First administration Mean (SD) | Second administration Mean (SD) | Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) (95% CI) |
p value |
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Total PA | 2570.4 (3017.0) | 2310.6 (3255.1) | 0.66 (0.404–0.82) | < 0.001 |
Total vigorous | 449.2 (774.3) | 671.3 (1035.7) | 0.96 (−0.263–0.431) | < 0.001 |
Total moderate | 971.3 (1959.8) | 927.8 (2262.1) | 0.88 (0.767–0.94) | < 0.001 |
Total walking | 1158.5 (1983.9) | 713.1 (1666.3) | 0.688 (0.446–0.836) | < 0.001 |
Job-related PA | 1515.4 (3033.6) | 1240.7 (3079.0) | 0.709 (0.478–0.848) | < 0.001 |
Transportation-related PA | 124.5 (220.6) | 99.8 (127.5) | 0.543 (0.239–0.75) | 0.001 |
Housework, House maintenance-related PA | 219.7 (506.8) | 349.2 (774.6) | 0.081 (−0.276–0.419) | 0.329 |
Leisure-related PA | 710.8 (801.3) | 620.8 (976.8) | 0.493 (0.174–0.719) | 0.002 |
Total time spent sitting (minutes/week) | 3532.8 (1253.4) | 3336.0 (1313.9) | 0.414 (0.076–0.667) | 0.009 |