Measurement Equivalence of E-Scale and In-Person Clinic Weights.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The current study aimed to determine whether electronic scale (e-scale) weight measurements are concordant with in-person clinic weights.

Methods

E-scale and in-person clinic weight measurements from 248 active duty military personnel enrolled in a weight-loss intervention study were used. E-scale and clinic measurements were matched and tested to determine whether measurements were significantly different from each other. Equivalence between the two measurements was tested among the cohort and when stratifying by gender, BMI, race, and age. The study also examined whether matching the times of clinic and e-scale measurements or averaging multiple measurements was optimal, and whether using e-scale and clinic measurements from the same day or across a specified amo

SUBMITTER: Pebley K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7575123 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature