Seasonal Variations in Physical Activity Domains among Rural and Urban Bangladeshis Using a Culturally Relevant Past Year Physical Activity Questionnaire (PYPAQ).

ABSTRACT: While the effect of weather and seasons on physical activity (PA) is well documented for leisure-time physical activities in western countries, scant information is available for developing countries where lifestyle PA is the major source of energy expenditure (EE). In Bangladesh, the traditional calendar divides the year to six seasons that last two months each: summer, rainy, autumn, late autumn, winter, and spring. We developed the Past Year Physical Activity Questionnaire to record culturally relevant physical activities and to help assess the seasonal variation in total and domain-specific PA in Bangladesh. We have applied this tool to 162 men and women aged 18-60 years residing in Dhaka city and in the northern rural district of Thakurgaon. Repeated measures analysis of variance (RMA

SUBMITTER: Mumu SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6815625 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature