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| Title |
A description of the volume and intensity of sporadic physical activity among adults
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| Published in |
BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, January 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/2052-1847-7-2 |
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| Authors |
Jordan Robson, Ian Janssen |
| Abstract |
Emerging evidence indicates that accumulating physical activity in periods of less than 10 minutes, termed sporadic physical activity (SPA), has similar effects on health as a similar volume of bouted physical activity (BPA). The purpose of this study was to describe the volume and intensity of SPA in adults. Participants consisted of a representative sample of 6040 adults aged 20 years and older from the 2003-2006 U.S. National Health and Examination Nutrition Survey. Physical activity was measured over 7 days using Actigraph AM-7164 accelerometers. Each minute of accelerometer data was initially categorized by intensity (sedentary, light, moderate-to-vigorous), and then non-sedentary time was categorized as following a BPA or SPA pattern (≥ or < 10 consecutive minutes). American adults accumulated 103 minutes/day of SPA of an intensity, which represented 27% of their total (BPA + SPA) daily physical activity. Only 3 minutes/day of the SPA was of a moderate-to-vigorous intensity; however, participants accumulated 16 minutes/day of moderate-to-vigorous activity embedded within light intensity BPA. This embedded moderate-to-vigorous activity represented 85% of total daily moderate-to-vigorous activity. SPA accounted for about a quarter of total daily physical activity. While the amount of moderate-to-vigorous SPA was minimal, a significant amount of moderate-to-vigorous activity was accumulated within bouts of primarily light intensity activity. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 40% |
| Unknown | 3 | 60% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 60% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 40% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 6% |
| Japan | 1 | 3% |
| Spain | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 27 | 87% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 32% |
| Researcher | 5 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 13% |
| Other | 2 | 6% |
| Librarian | 2 | 6% |
| Other | 3 | 10% |
| Unknown | 5 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Sports and Recreations | 8 | 26% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 13% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 10% |
| Psychology | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 3 | 10% |
| Unknown | 9 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 January 2015.
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#2,388,506
of 23,881,329 outputs
Outputs from BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation
#88
of 534 outputs
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#34,043
of 356,675 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation
#4
of 11 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 534 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its peers.
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