SynthesisJMIR mHealth and uHealth2022
Accuracy and Precision of Consumer-Grade Wearable Activity Monitors for Assessing Time Spent in Sedentary Behavior in Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Telemedicine in pediatrics: a critical narrative review of innovations, limitations, and future priorities.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Review
- Validity and Wear Compliance of Wrist-Worn Consumer Activity Trackers Among Japanese School-Aged Children Under Free-Living Conditions.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Tummy Time Tracking: Concurrent-Validity of Wearable Sensors in Home Settings for Term and Preterm Infants.Pediatric physical therapy : the official publication of the Section on Pediatrics of the American Physical Therapy Association · 2025Article
- Validation of the Fitbit Charge 5 for the Detection of Heart Rate and Electrodermal Activity.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Criterion and Construct Validity of the Pocket-Worn RISE Device to Assess Movement Behaviour in Community-Dwelling People with Stroke.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Preadolescent Children Using Real-Time Heart Rate During Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity: A Feasibility Study.JMIR human factors · 2025Article
- Enabling Older Adults to Provide High-quality Activity Labels: Unpacking Accuracy, Precision, and Granularity in Activity Labeling.Proceedings of the ACM on interactive, mobile, wearable and ubiquitous technologies · 2025Article
- Exploring needs and requirements for a prototype device measuring physical activity in pediatric physical therapy: A qualitative study.PloS one · 2024Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundA large number of wearable activity monitor models are released and used each year by consumers and researchers. As more studies are being carried out on children and adolescents in terms of sedentary behavior (SB) assessment, knowledge about accurate and precise monitoring devices becomes increasingly important.
objectiveThe main aim of this systematic review was to investigate and communicate findings on the accuracy and precision of consumer-grade physical activity monitors in assessing the time spent in SB in children and adolescents.
methodsSearches of PubMed (MEDLINE), Scopus, SPORTDiscus (full text), ProQuest, Open Access Theses and Dissertations, DART Europe E-theses Portal, and Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations electronic databases were performed. All relevant studies that compared different types of consumer-grade monitors using a comparison method in the assessment of SB, published in European languages from 2015 onward were considered for inclusion. The risk of bias was estimated using Consensus-Based Standards for the Selection of Health Status Measurement Instruments. For enabling comparisons of accuracy measures within the studied outcome domain, measurement accuracy interpretation was based on group mean or percentage error values and 90% CI. Acceptable limits were predefined as -10% to +10% error in controlled and free-living settings. For determining the number of studies with group error percentages that fall within or outside one of the sides from previously defined acceptable limits, two 1-sided tests of equivalence were carried out, and the direction of measurement error was examined.
resultsA total of 8 studies complied with the predefined inclusion criteria, and 3 studies provided acceptable data for quantitative analyses. In terms of the presented accuracy comparisons, 14 were subsequently identified, with 6 of these comparisons being acceptable in terms of quantitative analysis. The results of the Cochran Q test indicated that the included studies did not share a common effect size (Q
conclusionsThis is the first study that has attempted to synthesize available evidence on the accuracy and precision of consumer-grade physical activity monitors in measuring SB in children and adolescents. We found very few studies on the accuracy and almost no evidence on the precision of wearable activity monitors. The presented results highlight the large heterogeneity in this area of research.
trial registrationPROSPERO CRD42021251922; https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=251922.
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