International children's accelerometry database (ICAD): Design and methods
Open Access
- 21 June 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 11 (1), 485
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-485
Abstract
Over the past decade, accelerometers have increased in popularity as an objective measure of physical activity in free-living individuals. Evidence suggests that objective measures, rather than subjective tools such as questionnaires, are more likely to detect associations between physical activity and health in children. To date, a number of studies of children and adolescents across diverse cultures around the globe have collected accelerometer measures of physical activity accompanied by a broad range of predictor variables and associated health outcomes. The International Children's Accelerometry Database (ICAD) project pooled and reduced raw accelerometer data using standardized methods to create comparable outcome variables across studies. Such data pooling has the potential to improve our knowledge regarding the strength of relationships between physical activity and health. This manuscript describes the contributing studies, outlines the standardized methods used to process the accelerometer data and provides the initial questions which will be addressed using this novel data repository.This publication has 81 references indexed in Scilit:
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