The godin-shephard leisure-time physical activity questionnaire: Validity evidence supporting its use for classifying healthy adults into active and insufficiently active categories

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 604-622

  Amireault, Steve ^a   Godin, Gaston ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; DEVICES; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; LEISURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84928601046     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: 1558688X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/03.27.PMS.120v19x7     Document Type: Article

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