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An inventory of national surveillance systems assessing physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sport participation of adults in the European Union
BACKGROUND: Physical inactivity has been recognised as a global public health problem that requires concerted action. This calls for systematic physical activity (PA) surveillance as a mechanism for assessing the problem and evaluating the effectiveness of related policies. Because countries tend to...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8494507/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34615500 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11842-1 |
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author | Sorić, Maroje Meh, Kaja Rocha, Paulo Wendel-Vos, Wanda de Hollander, Ellen Jurak, Gregor |
author_facet | Sorić, Maroje Meh, Kaja Rocha, Paulo Wendel-Vos, Wanda de Hollander, Ellen Jurak, Gregor |
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description | BACKGROUND: Physical inactivity has been recognised as a global public health problem that requires concerted action. This calls for systematic physical activity (PA) surveillance as a mechanism for assessing the problem and evaluating the effectiveness of related policies. Because countries tend to design their policy measures based on national surveillance data, here we present an inventory of existing national surveillance systems on PA, sedentary behaviour (SB) and sport participation (SP) among adult population in all European Union (EU) Member States. METHODS: As a part of the European Physical Activity and Sports Monitoring System (EUPASMOS) project, a questionnaire was constructed in the form of an on-line survey to collect detailed information on existing national surveillance systems on either PA, SB, or SP. National HEPA focal points from all 27 EU Member States were invited to answer the on-line questionnaire and data collection took part in the period May 2018–September 2019. RESULTS: National monitoring of PA or SB or SP for adults has been established in 16/27 EU Member States, that host 33 different PA/SB/SP monitoring systems. Apart from 3 countries that are using accelerometers (Finland, Ireland and Portugal), surveillance is typically based on questionnaires. In most Member States these questionnaires have not been validated in the particular language and cultural setting. Next, specific domains and dimensions of PA, SB and SP assessed vary a lot across countries. Only 3 countries (the Netherlands, Portugal and Slovenia) are monitoring all three behaviours while covering most of the domains and dimensions of PA/SB/SP. Lastly, as half of the existing surveillance systems set an upper age limit, in 9/16 countries that are monitoring PA/SB/SP, no data for people older than 80 years are available. CONCLUSIONS: Systematic surveillance of PA is lacking among 11/27 EU countries, with even few monitoring SB and SP. Besides, existing surveillance systems typically fail to assess all dimensions and domains of PA/SB/SP with only three countries maintaining monitoring systems that encompass all three behaviours while covering most of the domains and dimensions of PA/SB/SP. Hence, additional efforts in advocacy of systematic PA surveillance in the EU are called for. |
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spelling | pubmed-84945072021-10-07 An inventory of national surveillance systems assessing physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sport participation of adults in the European Union Sorić, Maroje Meh, Kaja Rocha, Paulo Wendel-Vos, Wanda de Hollander, Ellen Jurak, Gregor BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: Physical inactivity has been recognised as a global public health problem that requires concerted action. This calls for systematic physical activity (PA) surveillance as a mechanism for assessing the problem and evaluating the effectiveness of related policies. Because countries tend to design their policy measures based on national surveillance data, here we present an inventory of existing national surveillance systems on PA, sedentary behaviour (SB) and sport participation (SP) among adult population in all European Union (EU) Member States. METHODS: As a part of the European Physical Activity and Sports Monitoring System (EUPASMOS) project, a questionnaire was constructed in the form of an on-line survey to collect detailed information on existing national surveillance systems on either PA, SB, or SP. National HEPA focal points from all 27 EU Member States were invited to answer the on-line questionnaire and data collection took part in the period May 2018–September 2019. RESULTS: National monitoring of PA or SB or SP for adults has been established in 16/27 EU Member States, that host 33 different PA/SB/SP monitoring systems. Apart from 3 countries that are using accelerometers (Finland, Ireland and Portugal), surveillance is typically based on questionnaires. In most Member States these questionnaires have not been validated in the particular language and cultural setting. Next, specific domains and dimensions of PA, SB and SP assessed vary a lot across countries. Only 3 countries (the Netherlands, Portugal and Slovenia) are monitoring all three behaviours while covering most of the domains and dimensions of PA/SB/SP. Lastly, as half of the existing surveillance systems set an upper age limit, in 9/16 countries that are monitoring PA/SB/SP, no data for people older than 80 years are available. CONCLUSIONS: Systematic surveillance of PA is lacking among 11/27 EU countries, with even few monitoring SB and SP. Besides, existing surveillance systems typically fail to assess all dimensions and domains of PA/SB/SP with only three countries maintaining monitoring systems that encompass all three behaviours while covering most of the domains and dimensions of PA/SB/SP. Hence, additional efforts in advocacy of systematic PA surveillance in the EU are called for. BioMed Central 2021-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8494507/ /pubmed/34615500 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11842-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Sorić, Maroje Meh, Kaja Rocha, Paulo Wendel-Vos, Wanda de Hollander, Ellen Jurak, Gregor An inventory of national surveillance systems assessing physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sport participation of adults in the European Union |
title | An inventory of national surveillance systems assessing physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sport participation of adults in the European Union |
title_full | An inventory of national surveillance systems assessing physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sport participation of adults in the European Union |
title_fullStr | An inventory of national surveillance systems assessing physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sport participation of adults in the European Union |
title_full_unstemmed | An inventory of national surveillance systems assessing physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sport participation of adults in the European Union |
title_short | An inventory of national surveillance systems assessing physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sport participation of adults in the European Union |
title_sort | inventory of national surveillance systems assessing physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sport participation of adults in the european union |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8494507/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34615500 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11842-1 |
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