Comparison between the International Physical Activity Questionnaire and the American College of Sports Medicine/American Heart Association criteria to classify the physical activity profile in adults

• Main Authors: Suzana Alves de Moraes, Cláudio Shigueki Suzuki, Isabel Cristina Martins de Freitas
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2013-07-01
• Series: Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
• Subjects: Actividad Motora; Reproducibilidad de Resultados; Estudios Transversales
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-11692013000400835&lng=en&tlng=en
• ISSN: 1518-8345

OBJECTIVE: the study aims to evaluate the reproducibility between the International Physical Activity Questionnaire and the American College of Sports Medicine/American Heart Association criteria to classify the physical activity profile in an adult population living in Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. METHODS: population-based cross-sectional study, including 930 adults of both genders. The reliability was evaluated by Kappa statistics, estimated according to socio-demographic strata. RESULTS: the kappa estimates showed good agreement between the two criteria in all strata. However, higher prevalence of "actives" was found by using the American College of Sports Medicine/American Heart Association. CONCLUSIONS: although the estimates have indicated good agreement, the findings suggest caution in choosing the criteria to classify physical activity profile mainly when "walking" is the main modality of physical activity.