Trial reportBMC medical research methodology2017
Awareness of wearing an accelerometer does not affect physical activity in youth.
Trial report in BMC medical research methodology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02844101 (Assess Whether Knowledge by the Children and Adolescents of the Function of the Accelerometer Determines Its Amount of Physical Activity), which is not on this map. Cited by 19 papers.
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Assess Whether Knowledge by the Children and Adolescents of the Function of the Accelerometer Determines Its Amount of Physical Activity
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Assessing the reactivity to mobile phones and repeated surveys on reported care-seeking for common childhood illnesses in rural India.Journal of global health · 2018Trial
- (Un)aware of change? Objective and subjective reactivity to the sensor-based measurement of physical activity and sedentary behaviour.British journal of health psychology · 2026Article
- No evidence of reactivity in accelerometry-based measurement of physical activity and sleep.British journal of health psychology · 2026Article
- The relationship between self-reported and device-based measurements of physical activity and mental distress among adolescents: results from the fit futures study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Associations between knee pain and knee-loading physical activities at work and leisure - a cross-sectional study based on accelerometer measurements.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2025Observational
- Clinical and physical characteristics of thinness in adolescents: the HELENA study.European journal of nutrition · 2023Article
- Daily physical activity patterns in children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease.Pediatric research · 2021Article
- Classroom Active Breaks to Increase Children's Physical Activity: A Cross-Sectional Study in the Province of Naples, Italy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Promoting Physical Activity With Self-Tracking and Mobile-Based Coaching for Cardiac Surgery Patients During the Discharge-Rehabilitation Gap: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2020Article
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- Change in physical activity is not associated with change in mental distress among adolescents: the Tromsø study: Fit Futures.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Strategies to Improve Physical Activity Surveillance among Youth in the United States.The Journal of pediatrics · 2019Article
- 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
- Daily domain-specific time-use composition of physical behaviors and blood pressure.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2019Article
- Physical activity levels in adults and elderly from triaxial and uniaxial accelerometry. The Tromsø Study.PloS one · 2019Article
- Patterns of Daily Outdoor Light Exposure in Australian and Singaporean Children.Translational vision science & technology · 2018Article
- Reliability of Wearable-Sensor-Derived Measures of Physical Activity in Wheelchair-Dependent Spinal Cord Injured Patients.Frontiers in neurology · 2018Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundThis study aimed to investigate whether awareness of being monitored by an accelerometer has an effect on physical activity in young people.
methodsEighty healthy participants aged 10-18 years were randomized between blinded and nonblinded groups. The blinded participants were informed that we were testing the reliability of a new device for body posture assessment and these participants did not receive any information about physical activity. In contrast, the nonblinded participants were informed that the device was an accelerometer that assessed physical activity levels and patterns. The participants were instructed to wear the accelerometer for 4 consecutive days (2 school days and 2 school-free days).
resultsMissing data led to the exclusion of 2 participants assigned to the blinded group. When data from the blinded group were compared with these from the nonblinded group, no differences were found in the duration of any of the following items: (i) wearing the accelerometer, (ii) total physical activity, (iii) sedentary activity, and (iv) moderate-to-vigorous activity.
conclusionsOur study shows that the awareness of wearing an accelerometer has no influence on physical activity patterns in young people. This study improves the understanding of physical activity assessment and underlines the objectivity of this method.
trial registrationNCT02844101 (retrospectively registered at July 13th 2016).
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