ReviewAmerican journal of lifestyle medicine
A Wrinkle in Measuring Time Use for Cognitive Health: How should We Measure Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour and Sleep?
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effects of Exergaming on Frailty: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical nursing · 2025Pooled it
- The use of sequential multiple assignment randomized trials (SMARTs) in physical activity interventions: a systematic review.BMC medical research methodology · 2024Pooled it
- Validity and reliability of self-reported methods for assessment of 24-h movement behaviours: a systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Pooled it
- Improvement in Quality of Life with Use of Ambient-Assisted Living: Clinical Trial with Older Persons in the Chilean Population.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Trial
- All Is Relative-A Call for Considering "Physiologically Informed" Control Conditions to Improve the Mechanistic Understanding of the Effects of Physical Exercise on Cognition.Scandinavian journal of psychology · 2026Review
- External force to live long and prosper: A passive exercise classification framework.Journal of sport and health science · 2025Article
- Beyond FITT: addressing density in understanding the dose-response relationships of physical activity with health-an example based on brain health.European journal of applied physiology · 2025Review
- Not all heroes wear capes: The role of movement behaviors in mitigating mortality in cancer survivors and cognitive decline in older adults.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2025Article
- Nonlinear Associations of Accelerometer-Based Sedentary Time With Cognitive Functions in the UK Biobank.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Isotemporal Substitution Effect of 24-h Movement Behaviors on Well-Being, Cognition, and BMI Among Older Adults.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- The Association of the 24-Hour Activity Cycle Profiles With Cognition in Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Cross-Sectional Study.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2024Article
- Twenty-four hour physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep profiles in adults living with rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional latent class analysis.Journal of activity, sedentary and sleep behaviors · 2024Article
- Revealing the Mysteries of Population Mobility Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada: Comparative Analysis With Internet of Things-Based Thermostat Data and Google Mobility Insights.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- Development of a 24-hour movement behaviors questionnaire (24HMBQ) for Chinese college students: validity and reliability testing.BMC public health · 2023Review
- Method for Activity Sleep Harmonization (MASH): a novel method for harmonizing data from two wearable devices to estimate 24-h sleep-wake cycles.Journal of activity, sedentary and sleep behaviors · 2023Article
- Higher 24-h Total Movement Activity Percentile Is Associated with Better Cognitive Performance in U.S. Older Adults.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2022Article
- Daily and hourly patterns of physical activity and sedentary behavior of older adults: Atherosclerosis risk in communities (ARIC) study.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
- Going digital - a commentary on the terminology used at the intersection of physical activity and digital health.European review of aging and physical activity : official journal of the European Group for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity · 2022Article
- Preventing the '24-hour Babel': the need for a consensus on a consistent terminology scheme for physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep.British journal of sports medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
One new case of dementia is detected every 4 seconds and no effective drug therapy exists. Effective behavioural strategies to promote healthy cognitive ageing are thus essential. Three behaviours related to cognitive health which we all engage in daily are physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep. These time-use activity behaviours are linked to cognitive health in a complex and dynamic relationship not yet fully elucidated. Understanding how each of these behaviours is related to each other and cognitive health will help determine the most practical and effective lifestyle strategies for promoting healthy cognitive ageing. In this review, we discuss methods and analytical approaches to best investigate how these time-use activity behaviours are related to cognitive health. We highlight four key recommendations for examining these relationships such that researchers should include measures which (1) are psychometrically appropriate; (2) can specifically answer the research question; (3) include objective and subjective estimates of the behaviour and (4) choose an analytical method for modelling the relationships of time-use activity behaviours with cognitive health which is appropriate for their research question.
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