Contents
Physical Activity Assessment Domain
Introduction- What is physical activity?
- Energy expenditure
- Movement
- Posture
- Volume, intensity, duration, frequency
- Physical behaviour type
- Contextual information: Domain, spatial settings and social contexts
- Sedentary behaviour
- Physical activity guidelines
- Physical activity variation
- Introduction to objective methods
- Pedometers
- Accelerometers
- Heart rate monitors
- Combined heart rate and motion sensors
- Direct observation
- Doubly labelled water
- GPS and other GNSS receivers
- Multi sensor monitors
- Harmonisation of physical activity data
- Case study: Physical activity during pregnancy and anthropometry of the offspring
- Comparison of three harmonisation methods using validation data
- Network harmonisation of physical activity data using validation data
- Physical Activity Assessment Video Resources
- Getting participants started with the Axivity Monitor
- Wearing the Axivity Monitor
- Getting participants started with the ActiGraph Monitor
- Getting participants started with the Actiheart Monitor
- Wearing the ActiGraph monitor
- Step Test Procedure
- The Toolkit
- About
- What's new
- Other resources
- Toolkit Team
- Contact
- Links to other toolkits
- Nutritools
- NCI/NIH Dietary Assessment Primer
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