Measuring physical activity levels in hospitalized patients: a comparison between behavioural mapping and data from an accelerometer.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the level of agreement of the behavioural mapping method with an accelerometer to measure physical activity of hospitalized patients.

Design

A prospective single-centre observational study.

Setting

A university medical centre in the Netherlands.

Subjects

Patients admitted to the hospital.

Main measures

Physical activity of participants was measured for one day from 9 AM to 4 PM with the behavioural mapping method and an accelerometer simultaneously. The level of agreement between the percentages spent lying, sitting and moving from both measures was evaluated using the Bland-Altman method and by calculating Intraclass Correlation Coefficients.

Results

In total, 30 patients were included. Mean (±SD) age was 63.0 (16.8) year

SUBMITTER: Valkenet K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6585158 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature