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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Eugene Sobngwi, Professor Nigel Unwin, Dr Terry AsprayORCiD, Emeritus Professor Sir George Sir George Alberti
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Objective. To develop and validate a questionnaire for measuring physical activity within Sub-Saharan Africa. Methods. We designed the Sub-Saharan Africa Activity Questionnaire (SSAAQ), based upon existing questionnaires and an activity survey carried out in Cameroon. The questionnaire targeted past-year occupation, walking/cycling and leisure-time activities, and was administered by trained interviewers on two occasions, 10-15 days apart to 89 urban and rural consenting Cameroonians aged 19-68 years. Reliability was assessed by inter-interview comparison and repeatability coefficients (standard deviation of the test-retest difference). Validation was performed against a 24-hour heart rate monitoring and accelerometer recording. Results. The questionnaire was highly reproducible (ρ = 0.95; P < 0.001). The inter-interview difference did not differ significantly from 0, with a repeatability coefficient of 0.46-1.46 hours. Total energy expenditure from the questionnaire was significantly correlated to heart rate monitoring (ρ = 0.41-0.63; P < 0.05) and accelerometer measures (ρ = 0.60-0.74; P < 0.01). Subject's self ranking of their activity did not match the questionnaire's quartiles of activity. Conclusions. The present study presents the design and confirms the reliability and validity of SSAAQ in a rural and urban population of Cameroon and shows that subject's self ranking of activity might not accurately serve epidemiological purpose.
Author(s): Sobngwi E, Mbanya JCN, Unwin NC, Aspray TJ, Alberti KGMM
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: International Journal of Epidemiology
Year: 2001
Volume: 30
Issue: 6
Pages: 1361-1368
ISSN (print): 0300-5771
ISSN (electronic): 1464-3685
Publisher: Oxford University Press
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/30.6.1361
DOI: 10.1093/ije/30.6.1361
PubMed id: 11821347
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