Title
Reliability and Validity of a Questionnaire for Physical Activity Assessment in South American Children and Adolescents: The SAYCARE Study
Date Issued
01 March 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Nascimento-Ferreira M.V.
De Moraes A.C.F.
Toazza-Oliveira P.V.
Forjaz C.L.M.
Aristizabal J.C.
Santaliesra-Pasías A.M.
Lepera C.
Nascimento-Junior W.V.
Skapino E.
Moreno L.A.
Carvalho H.B.
Publisher(s)
Wiley-Blackwell
Abstract
Objective: The objective of this article is to test the reliability and validity of the new and innovative physical activity (PA) questionnaire. Methods: Subsamples from the South American Youth/Child Cardiovascular and Environment Study (SAYCARE) study were included to examine its reliability (children: n = 161; adolescents: n = 177) and validity (children: n = 82; adolescents: n = 60). The questionnaire consists of three dimensions of PA (leisure, active commuting, and school) performed during the last week. To assess its validity, the subjects wore accelerometers for at least 3 days and 8 h/d (at least one weekend day). The reliability was analyzed by correlation coefficients. In addition, Bland-Altman analysis and a multilevel regression were applied to estimate the measurement bias, limits of agreement, and influence of contextual variables. Results: In children, the questionnaire showed consistent reliability (ρ = 0.56) and moderate validity (ρ = 0.46), and the contextual variable variance explained 43.0% with −22.9 min/d bias. In adolescents, the reliability was higher (ρ = 0.76) and the validity was almost excellent (ρ = 0.88), with 66.7% of the variance explained by city level with 16.0 min/d PA bias. Conclusions: The SAYCARE PA questionnaire shows acceptable (in children) to strong (in adolescents) reliability and strong validity in the measurement of PA in the pediatric population from low- to middle-income countries.
Start page
S23
End page
S30
Volume
26
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Educación general (incluye capacitación, pedadogía)
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85042374784
PubMed ID
Source
Obesity
ISSN of the container
19307381
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus