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Examining the Validity of the ActivPAL Monitor in Measuring Posture and Ambulatory Movement in Children

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Date

2012

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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

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International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012, 9:119. DOI:10.1186/1479-5868-9-119

DOI

10.1186/1479-5868-9-119

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http://dx.doi.org/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.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10292/8212

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