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Device-based assessments of physical activity, including pedometers, accelerometers, and multi-sensor devices.
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Unequivocal evidence exists for the association between physical activity (PA) and health. Consequently, the promotion of PA is a global public health priority, with intervention efforts increasing exponentially worldwide. In developing and evaluating interventions, the accurate surveillance of free-living PA is critical for several reasons: first to be able to examine dose-response relationships between PA and health to optimize the potential efficacy of interventions, second to determine adherence to (a) current PA recommendations (e.g., 150 min of moderate-intensity PA/week) and/or (b) doses of PA evidenced to produce meaningful changes in health outcomes, and third to establish whether interventions to promote PA are effective at bringing about change in behavior.
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Brady, S., Veldhuijzen van Zanten, J.J.C.S., Duda, J.L., Kitas, G.D., Fenton, S.A.M. (2020). Physical Activity/Inactivity: Objective Measurement of. In: Gellman, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6439-6_101910-1
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