Examining the Validity of the ActivPAL Monitor in Measuring Posture and Ambulatory Movement in Children
Examining the Validity of the ActivPAL Monitor in Measuring Posture and Ambulatory Movement in Children
Date
2012
Authors
Aminian, S
Hinckson, EA
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Journal Article
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Publisher
BioMed Central Ltd.
Abstract
Decreasing sedentary activities that involve prolonged sitting may be an important strategy to reduce obesity and other physical and psychosocial health problems in children. The first step to understanding the effect of sedentary activities on children's health is to objectively assess these activities with a valid measurement tool.
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Activities of daily living , Body Mass Index , Child , Exercise test , Female , Humans , Male , Monitoring , Ambulatory , New Zealand , Obesity , Reproducibility of results , Schools , Sedentary lifestyle , Walking
Source
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012, 9:119. DOI:10.1186/1479-5868-9-119
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.