Monitoring of child-specific activities in ambulatory children with and without developmental disabilities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pediatric healthcare professionals facilitate children to enhance and maintain a physically active lifestyle. Activity monitors (AM) can help pediatric healthcare professionals assess physical activity in everyday life. However, validation research of activity monitors has often been conducted in laboratories and insight into physical activity of children in their own everyday environment is lacking. Our goal was to study the criterion validity of a prototype AM (AM-p) model in a natural setting.

Methods

Cross-sectional community-based study with ambulatory children (2-19 years) with and without developmental disability. Children wore the AM-p on the ankle and were filmed (gold standard) while performing an activity protocol in a natural setting. We labelled all v

SUBMITTER: Engels B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11909815 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature