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Thai diabetes prevention education program: development and validation of the Thai physical activity questionnaire for at-risk people

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Abstract

Aim

This study aimed to develop and validate the Thai physical activity questionnaire (Thai-PAQ) for Thai people at risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D).

Subjects and methods

After development and validation of the questionnaire, 95 people at risk for T2D were recruited. The Thai-PAQ was developed based on the International-PAQ. The Thai-PAQ was evaluated by three experts to ensure content validity. The at-risk people were interviewed using the Thai-PAQ for the previous 7 days’ activities. Spearman’s correlation was used to compare the accelerometer and Thai-PAQ for concurrent validity. Interclass correlation was used to evaluate the reliability of the Thai-PAQ separated by 3 days. Chi-square test was used to represent significant differences (p < 0.05) in the proportion of participants meeting the current physical activity guidelines.

Results

The content validity of the Thai-PAQ was 0.91. The total physical activity from the Thai-PAQ (MET-min week−1), which included the part-time occupation domain and excluded the part-time occupation domain, was significantly correlated with the total physical activity (counts week−1) according to the ActiGraph accelerometer (r = 0.57 and 0.54, p < 0.01, respectively). The 3-day test-retest reliability of the total physical activity of the developed PAQ was 0.86 (p < 0.05) when including the part-time occupation domain and was 0.85 (p < 0.05) when excluding the part-time occupation domain.

Conclusions

The study showed that that concurrent validity had high correlation compared with the ActiGraph accelerometer. Reliability was also acceptable as high reliability. The Thai-PAQ is considered useful for communities as well as a means to ultimately promote physical activity in communities.

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Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge the team staff of the health care offices in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. The authors particularly thank for team staff of The Office of Disease Prevention and Control 10 Chiang Mai Province, Ministry of Public Health, for their facilities and hospitality. The authors thank Ms. Julia Verhaeghe for English language editing.

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This research was supported by the Nestlé Foundation in Switzerland, grant no. 51/201217.

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  1. Department of Nutrition, Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University, 999 Phuttamonthon 4 Rd., Salaya, Phuttamonthon, Nakhon Pathom, 73170, Thailand

    Maenum Chirdkiatisak, Kitti Sranacharoenpong, Piyanit Churak & Panrawee Praditsorn

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Ethical consideration of this study was sent for approval by the Chiang Mai Public Health Office Institutional Review Board, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand. All the respondents signed an informed consent form.

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Chirdkiatisak, M., Sranacharoenpong, K., Churak, P. et al. Thai diabetes prevention education program: development and validation of the Thai physical activity questionnaire for at-risk people. J Public Health (Berl.) 27, 659–667 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-018-0989-2

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