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Article

Feasibility of A Novel Web-Based Physical Activity Questionnaire for Young Children

by
Stephanie E. Bonn
1,*,
Pamela J. Surkan
2,
Ylva Trolle Lagerros
3 and
Katarina Bälter
1
1
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
2
Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
3
Department of Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Pediatr. Rep. 2012, 4(4), e37; https://doi.org/10.4081/pr.2012.e37
Submission received: 5 June 2012 / Revised: 27 September 2012 / Accepted: 28 September 2012 / Published: 6 December 2012

Abstract

Accurate assessment of children’s physical activity is critical in determining associations between childhood physical activity and health later in life. We have developed a web-based questionnaire, KidActive-Q, to assess physical activity in early childhood. The feasibility and reproducibility of KidActive-Q were assessed in a sample of 20 children aged 2 to 6 years. The questionnaire was distributed to parents via e-mail on two occasions. The median time required to complete KidActive-Q was 2.5 minutes. All the parents reported that the questionnaire was easy or very easy to fill. The intraclass correlations for test-retest reliability were 0.60 (95% confidence interval: 0.31-0.88) for daily time spent outdoors, and 0.85 (95% confidence interval: 0.72-0.97) for daily time watching television. Our results suggest that KidActive-Q is a user-friendly tool for assessing physical activity in early childhood. To our knowledge, this is the first web-based questionnaire specifically developed for young children.
Keywords: children; epidemiology; internet; physical exercise children; epidemiology; internet; physical exercise

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Bonn, S.E.; Surkan, P.J.; Trolle Lagerros, Y.; Bälter, K. Feasibility of A Novel Web-Based Physical Activity Questionnaire for Young Children. Pediatr. Rep. 2012, 4, e37. https://doi.org/10.4081/pr.2012.e37

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Bonn SE, Surkan PJ, Trolle Lagerros Y, Bälter K. Feasibility of A Novel Web-Based Physical Activity Questionnaire for Young Children. Pediatric Reports. 2012; 4(4):e37. https://doi.org/10.4081/pr.2012.e37

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Bonn, Stephanie E., Pamela J. Surkan, Ylva Trolle Lagerros, and Katarina Bälter. 2012. "Feasibility of A Novel Web-Based Physical Activity Questionnaire for Young Children" Pediatric Reports 4, no. 4: e37. https://doi.org/10.4081/pr.2012.e37

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