Recommendations for Standardizing Validation Procedures Assessing Physical Activity of Older Persons by Monitoring Body Postures and Movements

Sensors

Ulrich Lindemann⁵  Wiebren Zijlstra³  Kamiar Aminian⁶  Sebastien F.M. Chastin²  Eling D. de Bruin¹  Jorunn L. Helbostad⁴ 

[1] Institute of Human Movement Sciences and Sport, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich 8092, Switzerland; E-Mail:;School of Health and Life Science, Institute of Applied Health Research, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow G4 0BA, Scotland, UK; E-Mail:;Institute of Movement and Sport Gerontology, German Sport University Cologne, Cologne 50933, Germany; E-Mail:;Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim 7491, Norway; E-Mail:;Department of Clinical Gerontology and Rehabilitation, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart 70376, Germany;Laboratory of Movement Analysis and Measurement, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland; E-Mail:

关键词: activity monitoring;    older persons;    physical activity;    validation;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s140101267

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Physical activity is an important determinant of health and well-being in older persons and contributes to their social participation and quality of life. Hence, assessment tools are needed to study this physical activity in free-living conditions. Wearable motion sensing technology is used to assess physical activity. However, there is a lack of harmonisation of validation protocols and applied statistics, which make it hard to compare available and future studies. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to formulate recommendations for assessing the validity of sensor-based activity monitoring in older persons with focus on the measurement of body postures and movements. Validation studies of body-worn devices providing parameters on body postures and movements were identified and summarized and an extensive inter-active process between authors resulted in recommendations about: information on the assessed persons, the technical system, and the analysis of relevant parameters of physical activity, based on a standardized and semi-structured protocol. The recommended protocols can be regarded as a first attempt to standardize validity studies in the area of monitoring physical activity.

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