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Objective measurement of habitual sedentary behavior in pre-school children: comparison of activPAL with actigraph monitors [PDF]

, 2011
The Actigraph is well established for measurement of both physical activity and sedentary behavior in children. The activPAL is being used increasingly in children, though with no published evidence on its use in free-living children to date.
Reilly, J., Martin, A., Dall, P., Granat, M., McNeil, M., Paton, J., Penpraze, V.   +6 more
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Understanding Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour of Adolescents in Indonesia [PDF]

, 2023
The majority of studies concerning physical activity and sedentary behaviour have utilized reported measurements, such as questionnaires, with known limitations including recall and social desirability bias.
Andriyani, Fitria Dwi
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Factors influencing sedentary behaviours after stroke: findings from qualitative observations and interviews with stroke survivors and their caregivers

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Stroke survivors are more sedentary than healthy, age-matched controls, independent of functional capacity. Interventions are needed to encourage a reduction in overall sedentary time, and regular breaks in prolonged periods of sedentary ...
Jennifer Hall, Sarah Morton, Claire F. Fitzsimons, Jessica Faye Hall, Rekesh Corepal, Coralie English, Anne Forster, Rebecca Lawton, Anita Patel, Gillian Mead, David J. Clarke   +10 more
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Sedentary behaviour among older adults residing in flat and hilly neighbourhoods and its association with frailty and chronic disease status

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Living in hilly neighbourhoods can be associated with sedentary behaviour, but no study has compared sedentary behaviour and its associations with frailty, chronic diseases, and poor health between flat and hilly neighbourhoods among older ...
Nestor Asiamah, Simon Mawulorm Agyemang, Edgar Ramos Vieira, Hafiz T. A. Khan, Janvier Gasana   +4 more
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Sedentary behaviour and diet across the lifespan: an updated systematic review. [PDF]

, 2015
Sedentary behaviour and its association with dietary intake in young people and adults are important topics and were systematically reviewed in 2011. There is a need to update this evidence given the changing nature of sedentary behaviour and continued ...
Foster, Perry J, Hobbs, Matthew, Biddle, Stuart J. H., Foster, PJ, Hobbs, M, Foster, Perry J., Natalie Pearson (1255488), Stuart J.H. Biddle (7238342), Pearson, N, Pearson, Natalie, Biddle, Stuart, Matthew Hobbs (47242), Perry J. Foster (7246055), Biddle, SJ   +13 more
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The relationship between sedentary behaviour and physical literacy in Canadian children: a cross-sectional analysis from the RBC-CAPL Learn to Play study

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Physical literacy is the foundation of a physically active lifestyle. Sedentary behaviour displays deleterious associations with important health indicators in children.
Travis J. Saunders, Dany J. MacDonald, Jennifer L. Copeland, Patricia E. Longmuir, Joel D. Barnes, Kevin Belanger, Brenda Bruner, Melanie J. Gregg, Nathan Hall, Angela M. Kolen, Barbi Law, Luc J. Martin, Dwayne Sheehan, Michelle R. Stone, Sarah J. Woodruff, Mark S. Tremblay   +15 more
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Reconsidering the sedentary behaviour paradigm. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
AimsRecent literature has posed sedentary behaviour as an independent entity to physical inactivity. This study investigated whether associations between sedentary behaviour and cardio-metabolic biomarkers remain when analyses are adjusted for total ...
Carol Maher, Tim Olds, Emily Mire, Peter T Katzmarzyk   +3 more
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Diet, physical activity, sedentary behaviour and perceptions of the environment in young adults [PDF]

, 2009
Background Few studies have explored both food behaviour and physical activity in an environmental context. Most research in this area has focused on adults; the aim of the present study was to describe perceptions of the environment, diet, physical ...
Lake, Amelia, Lake, Amelia; id_orcid, Adamson, Ashley, T. Townshend, Alvanides, Seraphim, A. J. Adamson, Stamp, Elaine, Townshend, Tim, Adamson, A. J., Stamp, E., Townshend, T., Alvanides, S., A. A. Lake, S. Alvanides, E. Stamp   +14 more
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It's not just the television: survey analysis of sedentary behaviour in New Zealand young people

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2011
Background Sedentary behaviour has been linked with adverse health outcomes in young people; however, the nature and context of being sedentary is poorly understood.
Foley Louise S, Maddison Ralph, Jiang Yannan, Olds Timothy, Ridley Kate   +4 more
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Interventions to improve exercise behaviour in sedentary people living with and beyond cancer: a systematic review. [PDF]

, 2014
To systematically review the effects of interventions to improve exercise behaviour in sedentary people living with and beyond ...
Thaha, MA, Steed, L., K A Robb, Homer, Kate, Thaha, M.A., Rosario, DJ, Bourke, Liam, Robb, Karen, Robb, KA, M A Thaha, Saxton, John, Taylor, SJ, Taylor, S.J.C., S J C Taylor, Steed, Liz, Saxton, J.M., D J Rosario, Rosario, D.J., Robb, K.A., K E Homer, J M Saxton, Saxton, JM, Taylor, Stephanie, L Bourke, Bourke, L, Thaha, Mohamed, Rosario, Derek J., L Steed, Homer, K.E., Taylor, SJC, Homer, KE, Steed, L, Bourke, L.   +32 more
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