Comparison between the International Physical Activity Questionnaire and the American College of Sports Medicine/American Heart Association criteria to classify the physical activity profile in adults

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem

Suzana Alves De Moraes¹  Cláudio Shigueki Suzuki¹  Isabel Cristina Martins De Freitas¹ 

关键词: Motor Activity;    Reproducibility of Results;    Cross-Sectional Studies;    Atividade Motora;    Reprodutibilidade dos Testes;    Estudos Transversais;    Actividad Motora;    Reproducibilidad de Resultados;    Estudios Transversales;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0104-11692013000400002

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

OBJECTIVE:the study aims to evaluate the reproducibility between the International Physical Activity Questionnaire and the American College of Sports Medicine/American Heart Association criteria to classify the physical activity profile in an adult population living in Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.METHODS:population-based cross-sectional study, including 930 adults of both genders. The reliability was evaluated by Kappa statistics, estimated according to socio-demographic strata.RESULTS:the kappa estimates showed good agreement between the two criteria in all strata. However, higher prevalence of "actives" was found by using the American College of Sports Medicine/American Heart Association.CONCLUSIONS:although the estimates have indicated good agreement, the findings suggest caution in choosing the criteria to classify physical activity profile mainly when "walking" is the main modality of physical activity.

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