Reliability and validity of the past year total physical activity questionnaire

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 163, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 959-970

  Friedenreich, Christine M ^a   Courneya, Kerry S ^b   Neilson, Heather K ^a   Matthews, Charles E ^c   Willis, Gordon ^d   Irwin, Melinda ^e   Troiano, Richard ^d   Ballard Barbash, Rachel ^d  

^a Division of Population Health and Information   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data collection; Exercise; Physical fitness; Questionnaires; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; DATA ACQUISITION; FITNESS; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY;

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CANADA; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOCUMENTATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MAXIMUM OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PAST YEAR TOTAL PHYSICAL ACTIVITY QUESTIONNAIRE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECREATION; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDITY; WORK;

ADULT; AGED; ALBERTA; ANTHROPOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33646753360     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwj112     Document Type: Article

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