Validity and reliability of physical activity questionnaires in children and adolescents: a Meta-analysis
10.3760/cma.j.cn112150-20190524-00421
- VernacularTitle:儿童青少年身体活动问卷效度和信度的Meta分析
- Author:
Xi YANG
1
;
Yi ZHAI
;
Xiang SI
;
Wenhua ZHAO
Author Information
1. 中国疾病预防控制中心科技处，北京 102206
- Keywords:
Child;
Adolescent;
Physical activity;
Questionnaire
- From:
Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine
2020;54(5):546-554
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective:This review is to systematically summarize the studies examining physical activity questionnaires in children and adolescents and assess the overall validity and reliability, providing evidence on epidemiology research of physical activity in youth.Methods:A meta-analysis was performed using Stata 14.0 software. PubMed/Medline and EMBASE databases using the following terms:'Physical Activity’AND (' Questionnaire’OR'Self-report’OR'Recall’) AND'Valid*’AND (' Reliab*’OR'Reproducib*’OR'Sensitiv*’OR'Responsiv*’) AND (' Child*’ OR'Adolescen*’OR'Youth’) were searched from January 2008 to December 2018. Articles meeting the inclusion criteria were screened and adopting 'COnsensusbased Standards for the selection of health status Measurement Instruments' to evaluate the quality of the included studies.Results:This review yielded 17 articles on 20 different physical activity questionnaires, the total number of 2 778 participants for validity study and 2 137 participants for reliability study. The combined values of correlation coefficients in validity study were 0.27 (95 %CI: 0.23-0.31) for moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity, 0.24 (95 %CI: 0.18-0.30) for moderate intensity physical activity, 0.33 (95 %CI: 0.24-0.42) for vigorous intensity physical activity. The combined values of intraclass correlation coefficients in reliability study were 0.75 (95 %CI: 0.68-0.83) for moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity, 0.56 (95 %CI: 0.46-0.65) for moderate intensity physical activity, 0.68 (95 %CI: 0.61-0.75) for vigorous intensity physical activity. Conclusion:Until now, no questionnaires were identified for good validity and reliability to assess the physical activity level in young population.
