Validity and reliability of IPAQ-SF and GPAQ for assessing sedentary behaviour in adults in the European Union : a systematic review and meta-analysis

Meh, Kaja (author), Jurak, Gregor (author), Sorić, Maroje (author), Rocha, Paulo (author), Sember, Vedrana (author)

Current lifestyles are marked by sedentary behaviour; thus, it is of great importance for policymaking to have valid and reliable tools to measure sedentary behaviour in order to combat it. Therefore, the aim of this review and meta-analysis is to critically review, assess, and compile the reliability, criterion validity, and construct validity of the single-item sedentary behaviour questions within national language versions of most commonly used international physical activity questionnaires for adults in the European Union: The International Physical Activity Questionnaire-Short Form and the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire. A total of 1749 records were screened, 287 fulltext papers were read, and 14 studies were included in the meta-analysis. The results and quality of studies were evaluated by the Quality Assessment of Physical Activity Questionnaires checklist. Meta-analysis indicated moderate to high reliability (r$_w$ = 0.59) and concurrent validity (r$_w$ = 0.55) of national language versions of single-item sedentary behaviour questions. Criterion validity was rather low (r$_w$ = 0.23) but in concordance with previous studies. The risk of bias analysis highlighted the poor reporting of methods and results, with a total bias score of 0.42. Thus, we recommend using multi-item SB questionnaires and smart trackers for providing information on SB rather than single-item sedentary behaviour questions in physical activity questionnaires.

• Language: English
• Keywords: sport, human activities, exercise, lifestyle, physical fitness, surveys, questionnaires, self-report, public health surveillance
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FŠ - Faculty of Sport
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: 17 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 18, iss. 9, art. 4602
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-135329
• UDC: 796.01-053.8
• ISSN on article: 1660-4601
• DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18094602
• COBISS.SI-ID: 61864963
• Publication date in RUL: 08.03.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: International journal of environmental research and public health
• Shortened title: Int. j. environ. res. public health
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 1660-4601
• COBISS.SI-ID: 1818965

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 01.05.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: šport, človekove dejavnosti, vadba, življenjski slog, fizična pripravljenost, ankete, vprašalniki, samoporočanje, nadzor javnega zdravja

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: Erasmus+
• Project number: 590662-EPP-1-2017-1-PT-SPO-SCP
• Acronym: EUPASMOS

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P5-0142
• Name: Bio-psiho-socialni konteksti kineziologije