Clustering of children's activity behaviour: the use of self-report versus direct measures
<p>Abstract</p> <p>While we concur with the objectives of the recent <it>International Journal of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity </it>paper published by Jago and colleagues titled "Physical activity and sedentary behaviour typologies of 10-11 year olds...
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| description | <p>Abstract</p> <p>While we concur with the objectives of the recent <it>International Journal of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity </it>paper published by Jago and colleagues titled "Physical activity and sedentary behaviour typologies of 10-11 year olds", we feel that the results as currently presented do not support their conclusions. Though the authors created groups of children with dramatically different patterns of self-reported physical activity and sedentary behaviour, an inspection of the objectively measured accelerometry data shows little difference between the groups. Further, in at least one instance the difference between groups was of the opposite direction when using objective measures, as opposed to the self-report measures used in the published analysis. Thus, we caution the authors from making conclusions based on their self-report data, and propose that they re-analyze their data using their objectively measured data instead.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-39e704598bca4880a0f0ff46104c61622022-12-21T23:30:51ZengBMCInternational Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity1479-58682011-05-01814810.1186/1479-5868-8-48Clustering of children's activity behaviour: the use of self-report versus direct measuresTremblay Mark SPrince Stephanie ASaunders Travis J<p>Abstract</p> <p>While we concur with the objectives of the recent <it>International Journal of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity </it>paper published by Jago and colleagues titled "Physical activity and sedentary behaviour typologies of 10-11 year olds", we feel that the results as currently presented do not support their conclusions. Though the authors created groups of children with dramatically different patterns of self-reported physical activity and sedentary behaviour, an inspection of the objectively measured accelerometry data shows little difference between the groups. Further, in at least one instance the difference between groups was of the opposite direction when using objective measures, as opposed to the self-report measures used in the published analysis. Thus, we caution the authors from making conclusions based on their self-report data, and propose that they re-analyze their data using their objectively measured data instead.</p>http://www.ijbnpa.org/content/8/1/48 |
| spellingShingle | Tremblay Mark S Prince Stephanie A Saunders Travis J Clustering of children's activity behaviour: the use of self-report versus direct measures International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity |
| title | Clustering of children's activity behaviour: the use of self-report versus direct measures |
| title_full | Clustering of children's activity behaviour: the use of self-report versus direct measures |
| title_fullStr | Clustering of children's activity behaviour: the use of self-report versus direct measures |
| title_full_unstemmed | Clustering of children's activity behaviour: the use of self-report versus direct measures |
| title_short | Clustering of children's activity behaviour: the use of self-report versus direct measures |
| title_sort | clustering of children s activity behaviour the use of self report versus direct measures |
| url | http://www.ijbnpa.org/content/8/1/48 |
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