A systematic literature review of reviews on techniques for physical activity measurement in adults: a DEDIPAC study.

ABSTRACT: The links between increased participation in Physical Activity (PA) and improvements in health are well established. As this body of evidence has grown, so too has the search for measures of PA with high levels of methodological effectiveness (i.e. validity, reliability and responsiveness to change). The aim of this "review of reviews" was to provide a comprehensive overview of the methodological effectiveness of currently employed measures of PA, to aid researchers in their selection of an appropriate tool. A total of 63 review articles were included in this review, and the original articles cited by these reviews were included in order to extract detailed information on methodological effectiveness.Self-report measures of PA have been most frequently examined for methodological effective

SUBMITTER: Dowd KP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5806271 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature