Standardised criteria for classifying the International Classification of Activities for Time-use Statistics (ICATUS) activity groups into sleep, sedentary behaviour, and physical activity.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Globally, the International Classification of Activities for Time-Use Statistics (ICATUS) is one of the most widely used time-use classifications to identify time spent in various activities. Comprehensive 24-h activities that can be extracted from ICATUS provide possible implications for the use of time-use data in relation to activity-health associations; however, these activities are not classified in a way that makes such analysis feasible. This study, therefore, aimed to develop criteria for classifying ICATUS activities into sleep, sedentary behaviour (SB), light physical activity (LPA), and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), based on expert assessment. METHOD:We classified activities from the Trial ICATUS 2005 and final ICATUS 2016. One author assigned METs an

SUBMITTER: Liangruenrom N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6857154 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature