{"id":13623,"date":"2017-07-01T09:04:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T09:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=13623"},"modified":"2017-08-14T05:11:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T05:11:25","slug":"development-of-a-new-activity-measure-activity-perception-in-healthy-population-and-in-people-with-chronic-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/development-of-a-new-activity-measure-activity-perception-in-healthy-population-and-in-people-with-chronic-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Development of a new activity measure: Activity perception in healthy population and in people with chronic illness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Research abstract:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Development of a new activity measure: Activity perception in\u00a0healthy population and in people with chronic illness,<\/a> by\u00a0M Martin &\u00a0I Alexeeva in<\/span> European Psychiatry<\/em>
\nVol 41, Supplement, p S796 [30 June 2017]\u00a0 Full article behind paywall<\/strong><\/p>\n

Introduction:<\/strong>
\nSelf-reports provide rich information about the types of activities\u00a0people engage in. Reviewing current activity measures two issues become\u00a0 evident. Firstly, they were developed and validated in healthy\u00a0populations. Secondly, they are diverse in their applications and\u00a0measured domains. Thus, to assess the construct of activity fully large
\nnumbers of measures need to be used.<\/p>\n

Objectives:<\/strong>
\nThe study aimed to explore different dimensions of activity (e.g. work, physical, mental, leisure, sedentary behaviours) using a new scale\u00a0assessing multiple domains of daily activities.<\/p>\n

Methods:<\/strong>
\nA new activity scale was used to investigate the types of activity and\u00a0inactivity in people with chronic illness (asthma, chronic fatigue\u00a0syndrome (CFS)) and in a healthy group. The types of activities measured\u00a0included; leisure and sport, home and outside, social activity, work and\u00a0education, and mental activity. The scale also aimed to measure the
\nconstruct of inactivity, represented by sedentary behaviours, such as\u00a0staying in bed during the day.<\/p>\n

Results:<\/strong>
\nThe results showed a pattern of significant correlations between the new\u00a0activity scale, specifically its two major domains of activity and\u00a0inactivity, and other measures of functioning and activity in the\u00a0illness groups, but not in the healthy group.<\/p>\n

Conclusions:<\/strong>
\nThe lack of significant associations between the new activity scale and\u00a0other measures of activity and functioning within the healthy group\u00a0indicated the measure may be more suitable for assessing activity in\u00a0people with chronic illness than in healthy people. Additionally, the\u00a0results underscore the importance of measuring inactivity as a separate
\ndomain.<\/p>\n

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How can a self report scale be valid in ill people but not healthy people? Honest to goodness.<\/p>\n

Objective measures need to correlate with self report. Not tricky to research…… Perhaps all this effort is pointing to the unreliability of self report measures of activity. Which relies on subjective recollection of memory……. That’ll be prone to bias.<\/p>\n

Why no objective measures. Fitbits are cheap for heavens sake.<\/p>\n

Waste of energy and research effort. Not great from any institution but Oxford. Wow ?<\/p>\n

Joan x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Research abstract: Development of a new activity measure: Activity perception in\u00a0healthy population and in people with chronic illness, by\u00a0M Martin &\u00a0I Alexeeva in European Psychiatry Vol 41, Supplement, p S796 [30 June 2017]\u00a0 Full article behind paywall Introduction: Self-reports provide … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-3xJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13623"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14012,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13623\/revisions\/14012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}