There is limited assessment of physical activity questionnaires in pregnancy.
To review physical activity questionnaires designed for children and/or adolescents and to present their psychometric properties.
During the first administration, participants answered the Yale physical activity questionnaires (YPAS) and performed the 6-min walking test (6MWT).
This investigation demonstrates that a combination of previously validated physical activity questionnaires can be used to accurately determine the mean energy expenditure of a population of employed males.
Using a cross-sectional descriptive design, a convenience sample of 70 women, aged 19 to 69 years, completed general health, demographic, food frequency, and physical activity questionnaires.
Physical activity questionnaires usually focus on moderate to vigorous activities and may not accurately capture physical activity or variation in levels of activity among extremely inactive groups like dialysis patients.
Physical activity questionnaires are the most used, however, their reliability and validity is low [2] [4].
The latter highlights the difficulty that entails the assessment of high intensity physical activities with physical activity questionnaires.
Both physical activity questionnaires showed modest construct validity.
Repeated food and physical activity questionnaires are recorded.
However, few physical activity questionnaires have been validated in Asian populations.
