Reliability of a measure of prediagnosis physical activity for cancer survivors

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 715-719

  Lynch, Brigid M ^a   Owen, Neville ^b   Newman, Beth ^c   Pakenham, Ken ^b   Leggett, Barbara ^d   Dunn, Jeff ^a   Aitken, Joanne F ^a  

^a VIERTEL CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN CANCER CONTROL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Exercise walking; Test retest reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SITTING; TELEPHONE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ADULT; AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVIVORS; WALKING;

EID: 33645982555     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000210196.94952.8b     Document Type: Article

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