Describing activity breaks using accelerometry

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Describing activity breaks using accelerometry

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University of Otago

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Background: Intervention studies observing the effects of physical activity on health often use accelerometry to quantify periods of sedentary behaviour and non-sedentary behaviour as well as the number of interruptions in sedentary behaviour, known as breaks. Previous studies have a transition from sedentary behaviour to non-sedentary behaviours such as standing or walking to classify a break in sedentary time. In contrast, a group of light to moderate intensity activity breaks such as light...

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Research paper

Research format

Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2018

Creator

Reeves, Matthew

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/7931

Related subjects

Accelerometry / Accelerometer / activPAL / ActiGraph / threshold / cut-point / sedentary / sitting / activity / breaks / workplace / cardiometabolic / counts / cpm / heart / rate / posture

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