TY - JOUR
T1 - Measurement of adults' sedentary time in population-based studies
AU - Healy, Genevieve N.
AU - Clark, Bronwyn K.
AU - Winkler, Elisabeth A.H.
AU - Gardiner, Paul A.
AU - Brown, Wendy J.
AU - Matthews, Charles E.
N1 - Funding Information:
GNH is supported by a NHMRC (No. 569861)/National Heart Foundation of Australia (PH 08B 3905) Postdoctoral Fellowship. BKC is supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award and Queensland Health Core Research Infrastructure grant. EAHW and PAG are supported by a Queensland Health Core Research Infrastructure grant and by NHMRC Program Grant funding (No. 569940 ). NHANES data used in this study were collected by the National Center for Health Statistics, CDC.
PY - 2011/8
Y1 - 2011/8
N2 - Sedentary time (too much sitting) increasingly is being recognized as a distinct health risk behavior. This paper reviews the reliability and validity of self-reported and device-based sedentary time measures and provides recommendations for their use in population-based studies. The focus is on instruments that have been used in free-living, population-based research in adults. Data from the 20032006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey are utilized to compare the descriptive epidemiology of sedentary time that arises from the use of different sedentary time measures. A key recommendation from this review is that, wherever possible, population-based monitoring of sedentary time should incorporate both self-reported measures (to capture important domain- and behavior-specific sedentary time information) and device-based measures (to measure both total sedentary time and patterns of sedentary time accumulation).
AB - Sedentary time (too much sitting) increasingly is being recognized as a distinct health risk behavior. This paper reviews the reliability and validity of self-reported and device-based sedentary time measures and provides recommendations for their use in population-based studies. The focus is on instruments that have been used in free-living, population-based research in adults. Data from the 20032006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey are utilized to compare the descriptive epidemiology of sedentary time that arises from the use of different sedentary time measures. A key recommendation from this review is that, wherever possible, population-based monitoring of sedentary time should incorporate both self-reported measures (to capture important domain- and behavior-specific sedentary time information) and device-based measures (to measure both total sedentary time and patterns of sedentary time accumulation).
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U2 - 10.1016/j.amepre.2011.05.005
DO - 10.1016/j.amepre.2011.05.005
M3 - Review article
C2 - 21767730
AN - SCOPUS:79960550729
SN - 0749-3797
VL - 41
SP - 216
EP - 227
JO - American Journal of Preventive Medicine
JF - American Journal of Preventive Medicine
IS - 2
ER -