Development of scales to assess children's perceptions of friend and parental influences on physical activity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many children do not meet physical activity guidelines. Parents and friends are likely to influence children's physical activity but there is a shortage of measures that are able to capture these influences.

Methods

A new questionnaire with the following three scales was developed: 1) Parental influence on physical activity; 2) Motives for activity with friends scale; and 3) Physical activity and sedentary group normative values. Content for each scale was informed by qualitative work. One hundred and seventy three, 10-11 year old children completed the new questionnaire twice, one week apart. Participants also wore an accelerometer for 5 days and mean minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity, light physical activity and sedentary time per day were obtain

SUBMITTER: Jago R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2763850 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature