Faculty of Sports, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Liberal Arts Department, General Education, American University of the Middle East, Egaila 54200, Kuwait.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Dec 31;19(1):430. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19010430.
Health policies rely on physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior data collected through PA questionnaires (PAQs). Validity of international PAQs varies among countries. Therefore, it is important to know the validity of the national versions of the PAQs to properly evaluate the results. We conducted a validation study of the Slovenian versions of the International PAQ Short Form (IPAQ-SF), the Global PAQ (GPAQ), and the PAQ used in the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS-PAQ) on 306 healthy adults. The most valid and reliable constructs in all tested were sedentary behavior and vigorous PA (VPA), however the criterion validity of these constructs was low (Spearman's ρ 0.38-0.45 for sedentary behavior and 0.34-0.42 for VPA). Moderate to vigorous PA (MVPA) had low validity (0.26-0.29) despite being used as a standard measure of PA behavior. Participants over-reported MVPA for 17 to 156 min and underreported the sedentary behavior for more than two hours. The test-retest study found high reliability for sedentary behavior (0.69-0.81) and low to moderate reliability for PA behavior (0.42-0.76). The Slovenian versions of the observed PAQs are a useful tool for national PA surveillance, but for qualitative assessment of individual health-related PA behavior they should be combined with accelerometer-based devices.
健康政策依赖于通过体力活动问卷（PAQ）收集的体力活动（PA）和久坐行为数据。国际 PAQ 的有效性因国家而异。因此，了解 PAQ 国家版本的有效性对于正确评估结果非常重要。我们对 306 名健康成年人进行了斯洛文尼亚版国际体力活动问卷短表（IPAQ-SF）、全球体力活动问卷（GPAQ）和欧洲健康访谈调查体力活动问卷（EHIS-PAQ）的验证研究。在所有测试中，最有效和可靠的结构是久坐行为和剧烈体力活动（VPA），但这些结构的标准有效性较低（久坐行为的 Spearman ρ 为 0.38-0.45，VPA 为 0.34-0.42）。尽管被用作体力活动行为的标准衡量标准，但中度至剧烈体力活动（MVPA）的有效性较低（0.26-0.29）。参与者报告的 MVPA 多了 17 到 156 分钟，而报告的久坐行为则多了两个多小时。测试-重测研究发现，久坐行为的可靠性很高（0.69-0.81），而体力活动行为的可靠性则较低至中等（0.42-0.76）。观察到的 PAQ 的斯洛文尼亚版本是国家 PA 监测的有用工具，但对于个体健康相关体力活动行为的定性评估，它们应该与基于加速度计的设备结合使用。
