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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
Volume 41, Issue 2, Pages 216-227Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2011.05.005
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- NHMRC [569861, 569940]
- National Heart Foundation of Australia [PH 08B 3905]
- Australian Postgraduate Award
- Queensland Health Core Research Infrastructure grant
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Sedentary time (too much sitting) increasingly is being recognized as a distinct health risk behavior. This paper reviews the reliability and validity of self-reported and device-based sedentary time measures and provides recommendations for their use in population-based studies. The focus is on instruments that have been used in free-living, population-based research in adults. Data from the 2003-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey are utilized to compare the descriptive epidemiology of sedentary time that arises from the use of different sedentary time measures. A key recommendation from this review is that, wherever possible, population-based monitoring of sedentary time should incorporate both self-reported measures (to capture important domain-and behavior-specific sedentary time information) and device-based measures (to measure both total sedentary time and patterns of sedentary time accumulation). (Am J Prev Med 2011;41(2):216-227) (C) 2011 American Journal of Preventive Medicine
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