Accelerometer data collection and processing criteria to assess physical activity and other outcomes: a systematic review and practical considerations

JH Migueles, C Cadenas-Sanchez, U Ekelund… - Sports medicine, 2017 - Springer
Background Accelerometers are widely used to measure sedentary time, physical activity,
physical activity energy expenditure (PAEE), and sleep-related behaviors, with the …

Measurement of physical activity in clinical practice using accelerometers

D Arvidsson, J Fridolfsson… - Journal of internal …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Accelerometers are commonly used in clinical and epidemiological research for more
detailed measures of physical activity and to target the limitations of self‐report methods …

Sedentary behaviors in today's youth: approaches to the prevention and management of childhood obesity: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

TA Barnett, AS Kelly, DR Young, CK Perry, CA Pratt… - Circulation, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
This scientific statement is about sedentary behavior and its relationship to obesity and other
cardiometabolic outcomes in youth. A deleterious effect of sedentary behavior on …

Wear compliance and activity in children wearing wrist and hip mounted accelerometers

S Fairclough, R Noonan, A Rowlands… - … & Science in …, 2016 - research.edgehill.ac.uk
Purpose This study aimed to 1) explore children's compliance to wearing wrist-and hip-
mounted accelerometers, 2) compare children's physical activity (PA) derived from raw …

Comparability and feasibility of wrist-and hip-worn accelerometers in free-living adolescents

JJ Scott, AV Rowlands, DP Cliff, PJ Morgan… - Journal of Science and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective To determine the comparability and feasibility of wrist-and hip-worn
accelerometers among free-living adolescents. Design 89 adolescents (age= 13–14 years …

Physical activity using wrist‐worn accelerometers: comparison of dominant and non‐dominant wrist

O Dieu, J Mikulovic, PS Fardy… - Clinical physiology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is a difference in physical activity
assessment between a wrist‐worn accelerometer at the dominant or non‐dominant arm. The …

Fundamental movement skills and accelerometer-measured physical activity levels during early childhood: A systematic review

A Dobell, A Pringle, MA Faghy, CMP Roscoe - Children, 2020 - mdpi.com
Early childhood is a key period for children to begin develo** and practicing fundamental
movement skills (FMS), while aiming to perform sufficient physical activity (PA). This study …

Enhancing the value of accelerometer-assessed physical activity: meaningful visual comparisons of data-driven translational accelerometer metrics

AV Rowlands, NP Dawkins, B Maylor… - Sports medicine …, 2019 - Springer
The lack of consensus on meaningful and interpretable physical activity outcomes from
accelerometer data hampers comparison across studies. Cut-point analyses are simple to …

Average acceleration and intensity gradient of primary school children and associations with indicators of health and well-being

SJ Fairclough, S Taylor, AV Rowlands… - Journal of sports …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Average acceleration (AvAcc) and intensity gradient (IG) have been proposed as
standardised metrics describing physical activity (PA) volume and intensity, respectively. We …

Validity and wearability of consumer-based fitness trackers in free-living children

K Brazendale, L Decker, ET HUNT… - … journal of exercise …, 2019 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Over the past decade wearable fitness trackers (WFTs) have grown in popularity with more
recent versions able to capture the pulse rate noninvasively on the wrist of the wearer. Most …