An Updated Systematic Review of Childhood Physical Activity Questionnaires.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

This review is an update of a previous review published in 2010, and aims to summarize the available studies on the measurement properties of physical activity questionnaires for young people under the age of 18 years.

Methods

Systematic literature searches were carried out using the online PubMed, EMBASE, and SPORTDiscus databases up to 2018. Articles had to evaluate at least one of the measurement properties of a questionnaire measuring at least the duration or frequency of children's physical activity, and be published in the English language. The standardized COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments (COSMIN) checklist was used for the quality assessment of the studies.

Results

This review yielded 87 art

SUBMITTER: Hidding LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6244567 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature