Thomas S, Reading J, Shephard R J
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Univ. of Toronto, Ontario.
Can J Sport Sci. 1992 Dec;17(4):338-45.
The original Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q) offers a safe preliminary screening of candidates for exercise testing and prescription, but it screens out what seems an excessive proportion of apparently healthy older adults. To reduce unnecessary exclusions, an expert committee established by Fitness Canada has now revised the questionnaire wording. The present study compares responses to the original and the revised PAR-Q questionnaire in 399 men and women attending 40 accredited fitness testing centres across Canada. The number of subjects screened out by the revised test decreased significantly (p < .05), from 68 to 48 of the 399 subjects. The change reflects in part the inclusion of individuals who had made an erroneous positive response to the original question regarding high blood pressure. There is no simple gold standard to provide an objective evaluation of the sensitivity and specificity of either questionnaire format, but the revised wording has apparently had the intended effect of reducing positive responses, particularly to the question regarding an elevation of blood pressure.
最初的体力活动准备情况问卷（PAR-Q）为运动测试和运动处方的候选人提供了一种安全的初步筛查，但它排除了比例似乎过高的明显健康的老年人。为减少不必要的排除，加拿大健身协会成立的一个专家委员会现已修订了问卷措辞。本研究比较了加拿大各地40家经认可的健身测试中心的399名男性和女性对原始PAR-Q问卷和修订后的PAR-Q问卷的回答。修订后的测试排除的受试者数量显著减少（p < .05），在399名受试者中从68人降至48人。这一变化部分反映了那些对原始问卷中关于高血压的问题做出错误肯定回答的人被纳入其中。没有简单的金标准来客观评估这两种问卷形式的敏感性和特异性，但修订后的措辞显然达到了减少肯定回答的预期效果，尤其是对关于血压升高问题的肯定回答。
