Measuring physical activity with pedometers in older adults with intellectual disability: Reactivity and number of days

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 343-351

  Hilgenkamp, Thessa ^a   Van Wijck, Ruud ^b   Evenhuis, Heleen ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Intellectual disability; Monitoring frame; Older adults; Pedometers; Physical activity; Reactivity

Indexed keywords

ACTIMETRY; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; WALKING;

ACTIGRAPHY; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; TIME FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 84870999710     PISSN: 19349491     EISSN: 19349556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/1934-9556-50.4.343     Document Type: Article

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