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Validity of activity monitors in health and chronic disease: a systematic review

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, July 2012
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Title
Validity of activity monitors in health and chronic disease: a systematic review
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International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, July 2012
DOI 10.1186/1479-5868-9-84
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Hans Van Remoortel, Santiago Giavedoni, Yogini Raste, Chris Burtin, Zafeiris Louvaris, Elena Gimeno-Santos, Daniel Langer, Alastair Glendenning, Nicholas S Hopkinson, Ioannis Vogiatzis, Barry T Peterson, Frederick Wilson, Bridget Mann, Roberto Rabinovich, Milo A Puhan, Thierry Troosters, PROactive consortium

Abstract

The assessment of physical activity in healthy populations and in those with chronic diseases is challenging. The aim of this systematic review was to identify whether available activity monitors (AM) have been appropriately validated for use in assessing physical activity in these groups. Following a systematic literature search we found 134 papers meeting the inclusion criteria; 40 conducted in a field setting (validation against doubly labelled water), 86 in a laboratory setting (validation against a metabolic cart, metabolic chamber) and 8 in a field and laboratory setting. Correlation coefficients between AM outcomes and energy expenditure (EE) by the criterion method (doubly labelled water and metabolic cart/chamber) and percentage mean differences between EE estimation from the monitor and EE measurement by the criterion method were extracted. Random-effects meta-analyses were performed to pool the results across studies where possible. Types of devices were compared using meta-regression analyses. Most validation studies had been performed in healthy adults (n=118), with few carried out in patients with chronic diseases (n=16). For total EE, correlation coefficients were statistically significantly lower in uniaxial compared to multisensor devices. For active EE, correlations were slightly but not significantly lower in uniaxial compared to triaxial and multisensor devices. Uniaxial devices tended to underestimate TEE (-12.07 (95%CI; -18.28 to -5.85) %) compared to triaxial (-6.85 (95%CI; -18.20 to 4.49) %, p=0.37) and were statistically significantly less accurate than multisensor devices (-3.64 (95%CI; -8.97 to 1.70) %, p<0.001). TEE was underestimated during slow walking speeds in 69% of the lab validation studies compared to 37%, 30% and 37% of the studies during intermediate, fast walking speed and running, respectively. The high level of heterogeneity in the validation studies is only partly explained by the type of activity monitor and the activity monitor outcome. Triaxial and multisensor devices tend to be more valid monitors. Since activity monitors are less accurate at slow walking speeds and information about validated activity monitors in chronic disease populations is lacking, proper validation studies in these populations are needed prior to their inclusion in clinical trials.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 1%
United Kingdom 4 <1%
Spain 3 <1%
Denmark 2 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Lithuania 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Other 3 <1%
Unknown 412 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 87 20%
Researcher 62 14%
Student > Master 56 13%
Student > Bachelor 55 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 21 5%
Other 96 22%
Unknown 57 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 110 25%
Sports and Recreations 53 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 44 10%
Engineering 26 6%
Computer Science 20 5%
Other 90 21%
Unknown 91 21%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 22 April 2019.
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#3,693,307
of 22,669,724 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
#1,154
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#25,475
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Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
#6
of 30 outputs
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