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UMass Amherst public health researcher updates and validates the 'Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire'

A University of Massachusetts Amherst public health researcher has updated and validated the widely used Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire (PPAQ) to improve the measurement performance of this ...
BMJ

Accelerometer-based measures in physical activity surveillance: current practices and issues

Objective Self-reports of physical activity (PA) have been the mainstay of measurement in most non-communicable disease (NCD) surveillance systems. To these, other measures are added to summate to a ...
BMJ

Reliability and validity testing of a single-item physical activity measure

1 British Heart Foundation National Centre for Physical Activity and Health, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK 2 School of Population Health, ...
The Conversation

Research Check: do we really need to do five times as much exercise as we’ve been told?

Brigid Lynch receives funding from the National Breast Cancer Foundation and the World Cancer Research Fund (International). Paul Gardiner receives funding from the NHMRC and the ARC. He is affiliated ...
BMJ Open

Telemedicine-based individualised aerobic exercise training in Chinese adults with inactive or mildly active inflammatory bowel disease: study protocol for a single-centre ...

Background Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients in China exhibit critically low levels of physical activity, yet evidence for telemedicine-based aerobic exercise interventions remains scarce, ...