Cultural adaptation and validation of the "Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire" for the Portuguese population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The lack of instruments to assess the level of physical activity in pregnant women, led to the development of the PPAQ (Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire), a self-administered questionnaire, which has already been translated in several countries and has already been used in several studies.

Aim(s)

Translate and adapt the PPAQ into Portuguese and test its reliability and validity.

Methods

An analytical observational study was carried out. Linguistic and semantic equivalence was performed through translation and back-translation and content validity was tested by a panel of experts. To test reliability, a test-retest was performed on a sample of 184 pregnant women, with an interval of 7 days and the ICC was used. To test the criterion validity, Pearso

SUBMITTER: Santos PC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9831324 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature