Accuracy and repeatability of the Yale physical activity survey in assessing physical activity of older adults

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 163-177

  Schuler, Petra B ^a   Richardson, Mark T ^b   Ochoa, Patricia ^b   Wang, Min Q ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ENERGY METABOLISM; ERGOMETRY; EVALUATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIODICITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENERGY METABOLISM; ERGOMETRY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIODICITY; PHYSICAL FITNESS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

EID: 0035431897     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2001.93.1.163     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. AINSWORTH, B. E., HASKELL, W. L., LEON, A. S., JACOBS, D. R., MONTOYE, H. T., SALLIS, J. F., & PAFFENBARGER, R. S. (1993) Compendium of physical activities: classification of energy costs of human physical activities. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 25, 71-80.
2. AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SPORTS MEDICINE. (1995) Guidelines of exercise testing, and prescription. (5th ed.) Philadelphia, PA: Lea & Febiger.
3. BECK, J. (1989) General principles of aging: demography of aging. In J. Back (Ed.), Geriatrics review syllabus: a core curriculum in geriatric medicine. New York: American Geriatrics Society. Pp. 1-5.
4. BLAIR, S. N., KOHL, H. W., BARLOW, C. E., PAFFENBARGER, R. S., GIBBONS, L. W., & MACERA, C. A. (1995) Changes in physical fitness and all-cause mortality: a prospective study of healthy and unhealthy men. Journal of the American Medical Association, 273, 1093-1098.
5. BLAIR, S. N., KOHL, H. W., GORDON, N. E., & PAFFENBARGER, R. S., JR. (1992) How much physical activity is good for health? Annual Review of Public Health, 13, 99-126.
6. BORG, E. A. V. (1982) Psychological bases of perceived exertion. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 14, 377-381.
7. 2 max in the sedentary state: the HERITAGE family study. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 30, 252-258.
8. CAMPBELL, W. W., CYR-CAMPBELL, D., WEAVER, J. A., & EVANS, W. J. (1997) Energy requirement for long-term body weight maintenance in older women. Metabolism, 46, 884-889.
9. CASPERSEN, C. J., BLOEMBERG, D. P. M., SARIS, W. H. M., MERRITT, R. K., & KROMHOUT, D. (1991) The prevalence of selected physical activities and their relation with coronary heart disease risk factors in elderly men: the Zutphen Study, 1985. American Journal of Epidemiology, 133, 1078-1092.
10. DIPIETRO, L., CASPERSEN, C. J., OSTFELD, A. M., & NADEL, E. R. (1993) A survey for assessing physical activity among older adults. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 25, 628-642.
11. EMPLAINCOURT, P. O., RICHARDSON, M. T., SCHULER, P. B., & WANG, M. Q. (1999) Intra-individual variation in daily physical activity levels in older adults. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, 7, 270-271.
12. GOLDING, L. F., MYERS, C. R., & SINNING, W. E. (1982) The Y's way to fitness. Chicago, IL: YMCA.
13. JACOBS, D. R., JR., AINSWORTH, B. E., HARTMAN, T. J., & LEON, A. S. (1993) A simultaneous evaluation of commonly used physical activity questionnaires. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 25, 81-91.
14. KATZMAN, R., BROWN, T., FULD, P., PECK, A., SCHECHTER, R., & SCHIMMEL, H. (1983) Validation of a short orientation-memory-concentration test of cognitive impairment. American Journal of Psychiatry, 140, 734-739.
15. KLISSOURAN, V. (1971) Heritability of adaptive variation. Journal of Applied Physiology, 31, 338-344.
16. LAPORTE, R. E., MONTOYE, H. J., & CASPERSEN, C. J. (1985) Assessment of physical activity in epidemiologic research: problems and prospects. Public Health Reports, 100, 131-146.
17. LEON, A. S., CONNETT, J., JACOBS, D. R., & RAURAMAA, R. (1987) Leisure-time physical activity levels and risk of coronary heart disease and death: the multiple risk factor intervention trial. Journal of the American Medical Association, 258, 2388-2393.
18. MAGNUS, K., MATROOS, A., & STRACKEE, J. (1979) Walking, cycling, or gardening, with or without seasonal interruption, in relation to acute coronary events. American Journal of Epidemiology, 110, 724-733.
19. MCARDLE, W. D., KATCH, F. I., & KATCH, V. L. (1981) Exercise physiology: energy, nutrition and human performance. Philadelphia, PA: Lea & Febiger. Pp. 486-493.
20. MONTOYE, H. J., WASHBURN, R. A., SERVAIS, S., ERTL, A., WEBSTER, J. G., & NAGEL, F. J. (1983) Estimation of energy expenditure by a portable accelerometer. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 15, 403-407.
21. PAFFENBARGER, R., BLAIR, S. N., LEE, I. M., & HYDE, R. T. (1993) Measurement of physical activity to assess health effects in free-living populations. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 23, 60-70.
22. POLLOCK, M. L., & WILLMORE, J. H. (1990) Exercise in health and disease: evaluation and prescription for prevention and rehabilitation. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders.
23. POLS, M. A., PEETERS, P. H. M., KEMPER, H. C. G., & COLLETTE, H. J. A. (1996) Repeatability and relative validity of two physical activity questionnaires in elderly women. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 28, 1020-1025.
24. RICHARDSON, M. T., AINSWORTH, B. E., WU, H. C., JACOBS, D. R., & LEON, A. S. (1995) Ability of the Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities (ARIC)/Baecke questionnaire to assess leisure-time physical activity. International Journal of Epidemiology, 24, 685-693.
25. RICHARDSON, M. T., LEON, A. S., JACOBS, D. R., JR., AINSWORTH, B. E., & SERFASS, R. (1994) Comprehensive evaluation of the Minnesota Leisure-time Physical Activity Questionnaire. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 47, 271-282.
26. SAS INSTITUTE, INC. (1985) SAS user's guide: statistics, Version 5 Edition. Cary, NC: Author.
27. STARTING, R. D., MATTHEWS, D. E., ADES, P. A., & POEHLMAN, E. T. (1999) Assessment of physical activity in older individuals: a doubly labeled water study. Journal of Applied Physiology, 86, 2090-2096.
28. TAYLOR, H. L., JACOBS, D. R., SCHUCKER, B., KNUDSEN, J., LEON, A. S., & DEBACKER, G. (1978) A questionnaire for the assessment of leisure-time physical activities. Journal of Chronic Disease, 31, 741-755.
29. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES. (1996) Physical activity and health: a report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
30. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES. (in press) Healthy People 2010: understanding and improving health. (Conference ed. in 2 vols.) Washington, DC: Author.
31. VINCENT, W. J. (1995) Statistics in kinesiology. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
32. VOORRIPS, L. E., RAVELLI, A. C. J., DONGELMANS, P. C. A., DEURENBERG, P., & VAN STAVEREN, W. A. (1991) A physical activity questionnaire for the elderly. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 23, 974-979.
33. WASHBURN, R. A., JETTE, A. M., & JANNEY, C. A. (1990) Using age-neutral questionnaires in research with the elderly. Journal of Aging and Health, 2, 341-356.
34. WASHBURN, R. A., SMITH, K. W., JETTE, A. M., & JANNEY, C. A. (1993) The Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (PASE). Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 46, 153-162.