ArticleJournal of obesity2011
Utility of accelerometers to measure physical activity in children attending an obesity treatment intervention.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials assessing the effect of digital tools on step count and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in healthy children and adolescents.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Pooled it
- Adherence to Actigraphic Devices in Elementary School-Aged Children: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Associations between number of steps and health outcomes in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- The great live and move challenge and the promotion of physical activity in children: results from a two-school-year cluster-randomized trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Trial
- Reducing bias and enhancing equity in AI-enabled precision nutrition: addressing measurement error across wearables, multiomics, and dietary data.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Review
- acc: An R package to process, visualize, and analyze accelerometer data.Software impacts · 2023Article
- School Health Education Program in Pakistan (SHEPP): findings from a feasibility trial in pre-adolescent school children from a lower middle-income country.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2023Article
- Insights into Non-Exercise Physical Activity on Control of Body Mass: A Review with Practical Recommendations.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2023Review
- A function-based approach to model the measurement error in wearable devices.Statistics in medicine · 2022Article
- Estimation of sparse functional quantile regression with measurement error: a SIMEX approach.Biostatistics (Oxford, England) · 2022Article
- Objectively Measured Physical Activity Is Lower in Individuals with Normal Weight Obesity in the United States.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Relations between physical activity, sedentary time, and body fat from childhood to adolescence: Do they differ by sex?International journal of obesity (2005) · 2022Article
- The Current State of Optical Sensors in Medical Wearables.Biosensors · 2022Review
- A randomized controlled trial of a community-based obesity intervention utilizing motivational interviewing and community resource mobilization for low-income families: Study protocol and baseline characteristics.Contemporary clinical trials · 2022Article
- Evaluation of Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity Levels Using Different Accelerometry Protocols in Children from the GENOBOX Study.Sports medicine - open · 2021Article
- Application of Modern Multi-Sensor Holter in Diagnosis and Treatment.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Can School-Based Physical Activity Projects Such as Skipping Hearts Have a Long-Term Impact on Health and Health Behavior?Frontiers in public health · 2020Article
- The Tangibility of Personalized 3D-Printed Feedback May Enhance Youths' Physical Activity Awareness, Goal Setting, and Motivation: Intervention Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2019Article
- A semiparametric model for wearable sensor-based physical activity monitoring data with informative device wear.Biostatistics (Oxford, England) · 2019Article
- Uni- and triaxial accelerometric signals agree during daily routine, but show differences between sports.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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Abstract
Objectives. To investigate the use of accelerometers to monitor change in physical activity in a childhood obesity treatment intervention. Methods. 28 children aged 7-13 taking part in "Families for Health" were asked to wear an accelerometer (Actigraph) for 7-days, and complete an accompanying activity diary, at baseline, 3-months and 9-months. Interviews with 12 parents asked about research measurements. Results. Over 90% of children provided 4 days of accelerometer data, and around half of children provided 7 days. Adequately completed diaries were collected from 60% of children. Children partake in a wide range of physical activity which uniaxial monitors may undermonitor (cycling, nonmotorised scootering) or overmonitor (trampolining). Two different cutoffs (4 METS or 3200 counts·min(-1)) for minutes spent in moderate and vigorous physical activity (MVPA) yielded very different results, although reached the same conclusion regarding a lack of change in MVPA after the intervention. Some children were unwilling to wear accelerometers at school and during sport because they felt they put them at risk of stigma and bullying. Conclusion. Accelerometers are acceptable to a majority of children, although their use at school is problematic for some, but they may underestimate children's physical activity.
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