Development and reliability testing of a self-report instrument to measure the office layout as a correlate of occupational sitting

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

Volumn 10, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Duncan, Mitch J ^a   Rashid, Mahbub ^b   Vandelanotte, Corneel ^a   Cutumisu, Nicoleta ^c   Plotnikoff, Ronald C ^d  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Correlates; Environment; Sitting; Spatial configuration; Workplace

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OFFICE ENVIRONMENT AND SITTING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; SELF REPORT; SITTING; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COHORT STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; POSTURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SELF REPORT; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84873180204     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14795868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1479-5868-10-16     Document Type: Article

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