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Validation of a Modified Version of the German Sedentary Behavior Questionnaire

Background: Physical inactivity and excessive sedentary behavior (SB) are growing public health issues that require surveillance, guidelines, and targeted interventions. In addition to a variety of sophisticated technical methods, questionnaires are still an attractive method for quick, easy, compre...

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Autores principales: Kalisch, Tobias, Theil, Christoph, Gosheger, Georg, Schwarze, Jan, Voss, Katharina, Schoenhals, Isabell, Moellenbeck, Burkhard
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9141471/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35627946
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10050807
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author Kalisch, Tobias
Theil, Christoph
Gosheger, Georg
Schwarze, Jan
Voss, Katharina
Schoenhals, Isabell
Moellenbeck, Burkhard
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Theil, Christoph
Gosheger, Georg
Schwarze, Jan
Voss, Katharina
Schoenhals, Isabell
Moellenbeck, Burkhard
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description Background: Physical inactivity and excessive sedentary behavior (SB) are growing public health issues that require surveillance, guidelines, and targeted interventions. In addition to a variety of sophisticated technical methods, questionnaires are still an attractive method for quick, easy, comprehensive, and cost-effective estimation of SB. The aim of this study was to validate a modified version of the widely used Sedentary Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ) compared to waist-worn accelerometers as an objective measurement. Contemporary explanations covering the use of smart devices have been added to the original instrument, and sitting while handwriting was explicated in more detail. Methods: Cross-sectional data from an adult sample (n = 64, 20–85 y, 25 m, 39 f) were used in this first validation study. Based on prior investigations of the SBQ, analyses were conducted in a gender-specific manner. Criterion validity was assessed using Spearman’s Rho coefficients. The Bland–Altman method was used to test the agreement between self-reported and accelerometer-measured SB time. Results: Using the modified SBQ (mSBQ), a significant gender difference in weekly sedentary time was found. Women estimated their sedentary time to be almost 50% higher than men (median 74.5 h vs. 51.0 h). No correlation was found between the questionnaire and accelerometer data for both subgroups (rho ≤ 0.281, p ≥ 0.174). Individual differences in daily SB estimation between both methods (in relation to accelerometry) were +3.82 h ± 4.36 h for women and +0.48 h ± 2.58 h for men (p < 0.001). Conclusion: The modifications to the SBQ did not improve the correlation between self-assessment of SB and objective determination. The reasons for the presented gender-specific overestimation of the participants’ own sedentary time, which contradicts the findings of other studies, remain unclear and need to be investigated further.
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spelling pubmed-91414712022-05-28 Validation of a Modified Version of the German Sedentary Behavior Questionnaire Kalisch, Tobias Theil, Christoph Gosheger, Georg Schwarze, Jan Voss, Katharina Schoenhals, Isabell Moellenbeck, Burkhard Healthcare (Basel) Article Background: Physical inactivity and excessive sedentary behavior (SB) are growing public health issues that require surveillance, guidelines, and targeted interventions. In addition to a variety of sophisticated technical methods, questionnaires are still an attractive method for quick, easy, comprehensive, and cost-effective estimation of SB. The aim of this study was to validate a modified version of the widely used Sedentary Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ) compared to waist-worn accelerometers as an objective measurement. Contemporary explanations covering the use of smart devices have been added to the original instrument, and sitting while handwriting was explicated in more detail. Methods: Cross-sectional data from an adult sample (n = 64, 20–85 y, 25 m, 39 f) were used in this first validation study. Based on prior investigations of the SBQ, analyses were conducted in a gender-specific manner. Criterion validity was assessed using Spearman’s Rho coefficients. The Bland–Altman method was used to test the agreement between self-reported and accelerometer-measured SB time. Results: Using the modified SBQ (mSBQ), a significant gender difference in weekly sedentary time was found. Women estimated their sedentary time to be almost 50% higher than men (median 74.5 h vs. 51.0 h). No correlation was found between the questionnaire and accelerometer data for both subgroups (rho ≤ 0.281, p ≥ 0.174). Individual differences in daily SB estimation between both methods (in relation to accelerometry) were +3.82 h ± 4.36 h for women and +0.48 h ± 2.58 h for men (p < 0.001). Conclusion: The modifications to the SBQ did not improve the correlation between self-assessment of SB and objective determination. The reasons for the presented gender-specific overestimation of the participants’ own sedentary time, which contradicts the findings of other studies, remain unclear and need to be investigated further. MDPI 2022-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9141471/ /pubmed/35627946 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10050807 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9141471/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35627946
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10050807
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