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Cultural adaptation and validation of the “Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire” for the Portuguese population
BACKGROUND: The lack of instruments to assess the level of physical activity in pregnant women, led to the development of the PPAQ (Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire), a self-administered questionnaire, which has already been translated in several countries and has already been used in sever...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9831324/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36626393 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279124 |
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author | Santos, Paula Clara Maciel, Leonardo Y. S. Abreu, Sandra Mesquita, Ana Rita Mesquita, Cristina Carvalho Lopes, Sofia Mota, Jorge |
author_facet | Santos, Paula Clara Maciel, Leonardo Y. S. Abreu, Sandra Mesquita, Ana Rita Mesquita, Cristina Carvalho Lopes, Sofia Mota, Jorge |
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description | BACKGROUND: The lack of instruments to assess the level of physical activity in pregnant women, led to the development of the PPAQ (Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire), a self-administered questionnaire, which has already been translated in several countries and has already been used in several studies. AIM(S): Translate and adapt the PPAQ into Portuguese and test its reliability and validity. METHODS: An analytical observational study was carried out. Linguistic and semantic equivalence was performed through translation and back-translation and content validity was tested by a panel of experts. To test reliability, a test-retest was performed on a sample of 184 pregnant women, with an interval of 7 days and the ICC was used. To test the criterion validity, Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r) was used between the PPAQ and the accelerometer, in a sample of 226 pregnant women. FINDINGS: The questionnaire was considered comprehensive. The ICC values of Reliability were: total score (0.77); sedentary activities (0.87); light-intensity activities (0.76); moderate-intensity activities (0.76); vigorous-intensity activities (0.70). For criterion validity was obtained a coefficient correlation of r = -0.030, considered weak and negative, for total activity. DISCUSSION: This study describes the translation and validation process of the PPAQ questionnaire from English to Portuguese. The final version of the PPAQ was considered as a valid instrument in terms of content to measure physical activity and was referred to as being simple to apply and easy to understand. CONCLUSION: The PPAQ has content validity, excellent reliability and weak criterion validity, as in the original version. |
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spelling | pubmed-98313242023-01-11 Cultural adaptation and validation of the “Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire” for the Portuguese population Santos, Paula Clara Maciel, Leonardo Y. S. Abreu, Sandra Mesquita, Ana Rita Mesquita, Cristina Carvalho Lopes, Sofia Mota, Jorge PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: The lack of instruments to assess the level of physical activity in pregnant women, led to the development of the PPAQ (Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire), a self-administered questionnaire, which has already been translated in several countries and has already been used in several studies. AIM(S): Translate and adapt the PPAQ into Portuguese and test its reliability and validity. METHODS: An analytical observational study was carried out. Linguistic and semantic equivalence was performed through translation and back-translation and content validity was tested by a panel of experts. To test reliability, a test-retest was performed on a sample of 184 pregnant women, with an interval of 7 days and the ICC was used. To test the criterion validity, Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r) was used between the PPAQ and the accelerometer, in a sample of 226 pregnant women. FINDINGS: The questionnaire was considered comprehensive. The ICC values of Reliability were: total score (0.77); sedentary activities (0.87); light-intensity activities (0.76); moderate-intensity activities (0.76); vigorous-intensity activities (0.70). For criterion validity was obtained a coefficient correlation of r = -0.030, considered weak and negative, for total activity. DISCUSSION: This study describes the translation and validation process of the PPAQ questionnaire from English to Portuguese. The final version of the PPAQ was considered as a valid instrument in terms of content to measure physical activity and was referred to as being simple to apply and easy to understand. CONCLUSION: The PPAQ has content validity, excellent reliability and weak criterion validity, as in the original version. Public Library of Science 2023-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9831324/ /pubmed/36626393 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279124 Text en © 2023 Santos et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Santos, Paula Clara Maciel, Leonardo Y. S. Abreu, Sandra Mesquita, Ana Rita Mesquita, Cristina Carvalho Lopes, Sofia Mota, Jorge Cultural adaptation and validation of the “Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire” for the Portuguese population |
title | Cultural adaptation and validation of the “Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire” for the Portuguese population |
title_full | Cultural adaptation and validation of the “Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire” for the Portuguese population |
title_fullStr | Cultural adaptation and validation of the “Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire” for the Portuguese population |
title_full_unstemmed | Cultural adaptation and validation of the “Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire” for the Portuguese population |
title_short | Cultural adaptation and validation of the “Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire” for the Portuguese population |
title_sort | cultural adaptation and validation of the “pregnancy physical activity questionnaire” for the portuguese population |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9831324/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36626393 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279124 |
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