Reliability and validity of Slovenian versions of IPAQ-SF, GPAQ, and EHIS-PAQ for assessing physical activity and sedentarism of adults

Meh, Kaja (author), Sember, Vedrana (author), Đurić, Saša (author), Vähä-Ypyä, Henri (author), Rocha, Paulo (author), Jurak, Gregor (author)

Health policies rely on physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior data collected through PA questionnaires (PAQs). Validity of international PAQs varies among countries. Therefore, it is important to know the validity of the national versions of the PAQs to properly evaluate the results. We conducted a validation study of the Slovenian versions of the International PAQ Short Form (IPAQ-SF), the Global PAQ (GPAQ), and the PAQ used in the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS-PAQ) on 306 healthy adults. The most valid and reliable constructs in all tested were sedentary behavior and vigorous PA (VPA), however the criterion validity of these constructs was low (Spearman’s ρ 0.38–0.45 for sedentary behavior and 0.34–0.42 for VPA). Moderate to vigorous PA (MVPA) had low validity (0.26–0.29) despite being used as a standard measure of PA behavior. Participants over-reported MVPA for 17 to 156 min and underreported the sedentary behavior for more than two hours. The test-retest study found high reliability for sedentary behavior (0.69–0.81) and low to moderate reliability for PA behavior (0.42–0.76). The Slovenian versions of the observed PAQs are a useful tool for national PA surveillance, but for qualitative assessment of individual health-related PA behavior they should be combined with accelerometer-based devices.

• Language: English
• Keywords: sport, survey, questionnaire, self-report, accelerometer, measurement characteristics, sedentary behavior, lifestyle, public health
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FŠ - Faculty of Sport
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: 15 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 19, iss. 1, art. 430
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-136762
• UDC: 796.01
• ISSN on article: 1660-4601
• DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19010430
• COBISS.SI-ID: 92196867
• Publication date in RUL: 19.05.2022

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
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• 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: 01.01.2022

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: šport, anketa, vprašalnik, samoporočanje, merilnik pospeška, merilne značilnosti, sedeči način življenja, življenjski slog, javno zdravje

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