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Assessment of the physical activity level with two questions: validation with doubly labelled water
Department of Health Behaviours, Swedish National Institute of Public Health, Östersund, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9291-9342
Department of Food and Nutrition, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
2008 (English)In: International Journal of Obesity, ISSN 0307-0565, E-ISSN 1476-5497, Vol. 32, no 6, p. 1031-1033Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Objective: To validate  a two-question questionnaire on physical activity with the doubly labeled water (DLW) method.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Subjects: Nine volunteers, age 33-75 years, with a mean body mass index (BMI) of 27.4.

Measurements: A questionnaire with one question on physical activity at work and one question on physical activity during leisure time. The answers were converted into a PAL (physical activity level=energy expenditure/basal metabolic rate) value, which was validated with the DLW method.

Results: The mean values (s.d.) of PAL for the questionnaire and DLW measurements were 1.7 (0.1) and 1.7 (0.1), respectively, with a mean difference of 0.004 (0.172).

Conclusions: The results were promising to the extent that they could be used in large-scale epidemiological studies.

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London: Nature Publishing Group, 2008. Vol. 32, no 6, p. 1031-1033
Keywords [en]
Energy expenditure, Doubly labeled water method, Physical activity questionnaire, Validation
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Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-5646DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2008.42ISI: 000256788500020PubMedID: 18392036Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-47249113424OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-5646DiVA, id: diva2:351069
Available from: 2010-09-13 Created: 2010-09-10 Last updated: 2017-12-12Bibliographically approved

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