Construct validity and test-retest reliability of the International Fitness Scale (IFIS) in Spanish children aged 9-12 years

Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 543-551

  Sanchez Lopez M ^a   Martinez Vizcaino V ^a   Garcia Hermoso A ^b   Jimenez Pavon D ^c   Ortega, F B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adiposity; Cardiovascular diseases; Physical fitness; Risk factors; Schoolchildren; Self report

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; LIPID;

BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXERCISE TEST; FITNESS; HAND STRENGTH; HUMAN; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUNNING; SELF REPORT; SPAIN; VALIDATION STUDY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADIPOSITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE TEST; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; INSULIN; LIPIDS; PHYSICAL FITNESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUNNING; SELF REPORT; SPAIN; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84936215976     PISSN: 09057188     EISSN: 16000838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sms.12267     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Anderssen SA, Cooper AR, Riddoch C, Sardinha LB, Harro M, Brage S, Andersen LB. Low cardiorespiratory fitness is a strong predictor for clustering of cardiovascular disease risk factors in children independent of country, age and sex. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 2006: 14: 526-531.
2. Ara I, Vicente-Rodriguez G, Jimenez-Ramirez J, Dorado C, Serrano-Sanchez JA, Calbet JA. Regular participation in sports is associated with enhanced physical fitness and lower fat mass in prepubertal boys. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 2004: 28 (12): 1585-1593.
3. Artero EG, Espana-Romero V, Ortega FB, Jiménez-Pavón D, Ruiz JR, Vicente-Rodríguez G, Bueno M, Marcos A, Gómez-Martínez S, Urzanqui A, González-Gross M, Moreno LA, Gutiérrez A, Castillo MJ. Health-related fitness in adolescents: underweight, and not only overweight, as an influencing factor. The AVENA study. Scand J Med Sci Sports 2010: 20 (3): 418-427.
4. Artero EG, Ruiz JR, Ortega FB, Espana-Romero V, Vicente-Rodriguez G, Molnar D, Gottrand F, Gonzalez-Gross M, Breidenassel C, Moreno LA, Gutierrez A. Muscular and cardiorespiratory fitness are independently associated with metabolic risk in adolescents: the HELENA study. Pediatr Diabetes 2011: 12 (8): 704-712.
5. Borodulin K, Laatikainen T, Salomaa V, Jousilahti P. Associations of leisure time physical activity, self-rated physical fitness, and estimated aerobic fitness with serum C-reactive protein among 3803 adults. Atherosclerosis 2006: 185: 381-387.
6. Carraro A, Scarpa S, Gobbi E, Bertollo M, Robazza C. Burnout and self-perceptions of physical fitness in a sample of Italian physical education teachers. Percept Mot Skills 2010: 111: 790-798.
7. Cohen J. Weighted kappa: nominal scale agreement with provision for scaled disagreement or partial credit. Psychol Bull 1968: 70: 213-220.
8. Deforche B, Lefevre J, De Bourdeaudhuij I, Hills AP, Duquet W, Bouckaert J. Physical fitness and physical activity in obese and nonobese Flemish youth. Obes Res 2003: 11 (3): 434-441.
9. Delignières D, Marcellini A, Brisswalter J, Legros P. Self-perception of fitness and personality traits. Percept Mot Skills 1994: 78 (3 Pt 1): 843-851.
10. DeVellis RF. Scale development: theory and applications. Applied social research methods, 2nd edn. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2003: 1-171.
11. DuBose KD, Eisenmann JC, Donnelly JE. Aerobic fitness attenuates the metabolic syndrome score in normal-weight, at-risk-for-overweight, and overweight children. Pediatrics 2007: 120: e1262-e1268.
12. El Assaad MA, Topouchian JA, Asmar RG. Evaluation of two devices for self-measurement of blood pressure according to the international protocol: the Omron M5-I and the Omron 705IT. Blood Press Monit 2003: 8: 127-133.
13. España-Romero V, Artero EG, Santaliestra-Pasias AM, Gutierrez A, Castillo MJ, Ruiz JR. Hand span influences optimal grip span in boys and girls aged 6 to 12 years. J Hand Surg Am 2008: 33 (3): 378-384.
14. Fogelholm M, Stigman S, Huisman T, Metsamuuronen J. Physical fitness in adolescents with normal weight and overweight. Scand J Med Sci Sports 2008: 18 (2): 162-170.
15. Fox KR, Corbin CB. The physical self-perception profile: development and preliminary validation. J Sport Exerc Psychol 1989: 11: 408-430.
16. Huotari P, Sääkslahti A, Watt A. Associations between the self-estimated and actual physical fitness scores of Finnish grade 6 students. Facta Univ Phys Educ Sport 2009: 7: 27-36.
17. Jimenez-Pavon D, Ortega FB, Valtuena J, Castro-Pinero J, Gomez-Martinez S, Zaccaria M, Gottrand F, Molnar D, Sjostrom M, Gonzalez-Gross M, Castillo MJ, Moreno LA, Ruiz JR. Muscular strength and markers of insulin resistance in European adolescents: the HELENA study. Eur J Appl Physiol 2012: 112: 2455-2465.
18. Jurimae T, Saar M. Self-perceived and actual indicators of motor abilities in children and adolescents. Percept Mot Skills 2003: 97: 862-866.
19. Landis JR, Koch GG. The measurement of observer agreement for categorical data. Biometrics 1977: 33 (1): 159-174.
20. Leger LA, Mercier D, Gadoury C, Lambert J. The multistage 20 metres shuttle run test for aerobic fitness. J Sport Sci 1988: 6: 93-101.
21. Marsh HW. Physical fitness self-concept: relations of physical fitness to field and technical indicators in boys and girls aged 9-15. J Sport Exerc Psychol 1993: 15: 184-206.
22. Marta CC, Marinho DA, Barbosa TM, Izquierdo M, Marques MC. Physical fitness differences between prepubescent boys and girls. J Strength Cond Res 2012: 26 (7): 1756-1766.
23. Martínez-Vizcaíno V, Sánchez-López M, Salcedo-Aguilar F, Notario-Pacheco B, Solera-Martínez M, Moya-Martínez P, Franquelo-Morales P, López-Martínez S, Rodríguez-Artalejo F. Protocolo de un ensayo aleatorizado de clusters para evaluar la efectividad del programa MOVI-2 en la prevención del sobrepeso en escolares. Rev Esp Cardiol 2012: 65 (5): 427-433.
24. Martínez-Vizcaino V, Ortega FB, Solera-Martínez M, Ruiz JR, Labayen I, Eensoo D, Harro J, Loit HM, Veidebaum T, Sjöström M. Stability of the factorial structure of metabolic syndrome from childhood to adolescence: a 6-year follow-up study. Cardiovasc Diabetol 2011: 10 (81): 1-8.
25. Martínez-Vizcaino V, Solera Martinez M, Salcedo Aguilar F, Serrano Martínez S, Franquelo Gutierrez P, Sánchez-López M, Moya Martínez P, Rodríguez Artalejo F. Validity of a single-factor model underlying the metabolic syndrome in children. Diabetes Care 2010: 33: 1370-1372.
26. Martinez-Gomez D, Gomez-Martinez S, Ruiz JR, Diaz LE, Ortega FB, Widhalm K, Cuenca-Garcia M, Manios Y, De Vriendt T, Molnar D, Huybrechts I, Breidenassel C, Gottrand F, Plada M, Moreno S, Ferrari M, Moreno LA, Sjöström M, Marcos A, HELENA Study Group. Objectively-measured and self-reported physical activity and fitness in relation to inflammatory markers in European adolescents: the HELENA Study. Atherosclerosis 2012: 221: 260-267.
27. Mikkelsson L, Kaprio J, Kautiainen H, Kujala UM, Nupponen H. Associations between self-estimated and measured physical fitness among 40-year-old men and women. Scand J Med Sci Sports 2005: 15: 329-335.
28. Mota J, Guerra S, Leandro C, Pinto A, Ribeiro JC, Duarte JA. Association of maturation, sex, and body fat in cardiorespiratory fitness. Am J Hum Biol 2002: 14 (6): 707-712.
29. Nabeel I, Baker BA, McGrail MP, Flottemesch TJ. Correlation between physical activity, fitness, and musculoskeletal injuries in police officers. Minn Med 2007: 90: 40-43.
30. Ortega FB, Artero EG, Ruiz JR, Vicente-Rodriguez G, Bergman P, Hagstromer M, Ottevaere C, Nagy E, Konsta O, Rey-Lopez JP, Polito A, Dietrich S, Plada M, Beghin L, Manios Y, Sjostrom M, Castillo MJ. Reliability of health-related physical fitness tests in European adolescents. The HELENA Study. Int J Obes 2008b: 32 (5): 49-57.
31. Ortega FB, Ruiz JR, Castillo MJ, Sjostrom M. Physical fitness in childhood and adolescence: a powerful marker of health. Int J Obes (Lond) 2008a: 32 (1): 1-11.
32. Ortega FB, Ruiz JR, España-Romero V, Vicente-Rodriguez G, Martinez-Gomez D, Manios Y, Beghin L, Molnar D, Widhalm K, Moreno LA, Sjostrom M, Castillo MJ. The International Fitness Scale (IFIS): usefulness of self-reported fitness in youth. Int J Epidemiol 2011: 40 (3): 701-711.
33. Ortega FB, Sánchez-López M, Solera-Martínez M, Fernández-Sánchez A, Sjöström M, Martínez-Vizcaino V. Self-reported and measured cardiorespiratory fitness similarly predict cardiovascular disease risk in young adults. Scand J Med Sci Sports 2013: 23 (6): 749-757. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0838.2012.01454.x
34. Phillips AC, Der G, Carroll D. Self-reported health, self-reported fitness, and all-cause mortality: prospective cohort study. Br J Health Psychol 2010: 15: 337-346.
35. Pietrobelli A, Rubiano F, St-Onge MP, Heymsfield SB. New bioimpedance analysis system: improved phenotyping with whole-body analysis. Eur J Clin Nutr 2004: 58: 1479-1484.
36. Rowland TW. Evolution of maximal oxygen uptake in children. Med Sport Sci 2007: 50: 200-209.
37. Ruiz JR, Castro-Pinero J, Artero EG, Ortega FB, Sjöström M, Suni J, Castillo MJ. Predictive validity of health-related fitness in youth: a systematic review. Br J Sports Med 2009: 43: 909-923.
38. Ruiz JR, Castro-Pinero J, España-Romero V, Artero EG, Ortega FB, Cuenca MM, Jimenez-Pavón D, Chillón P, Girela-Rejón MJ, Mora J, Gutiérrez A, Suni J, Sjöström M, Castillo MJ. Field-based fitness assessment in young people: the ALPHA health-related fitness test battery for children and adolescents. Br J Sports Med 2011: 45: 518-524.
39. Steele MR, Brage S, Corder K, Wareham NJ, Ekelund U. Physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and the metabolic syndrome in youth. J Appl Physiol 2008: 105: 342-351.
40. Twisk JW, Kemper HC, van Mechelen W. The relationship between physical fitness and physical activity during adolescence and cardiovascular disease risk factors at adult age. The Amsterdam Growth and Health Longitudinal Study. Int J Sports Med 2002: 23 (Suppl. 1): S8-S14.
41. Vicente-Rodriguez G, Rey-Lopez JP, Ruiz JR, Jimenez-Pavon D, Bergman P, Ciarapica D. Interrater reliability and time measurement validity of speed-agility field tests in adolescents. J Strength Cond Res 2011: 25 (7): 2059-2063.