Development and Preliminary Validation of a Stroke Physical Activity Questionnaire by Thunyakamon Phusuttatam, Jittima Saengsuwan, Pajeemas Kittipanya-ngam

“…Future work should determine the validity of the SPAQ using an objective device such as an accelerometer.…”
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The Adverse Impact of Glaucoma on Psychological Function and Daily Physical Activity by Wenbin Huang, Kai Gao, Yaoming Liu, Mengyin Liang, Xiulan Zhang

“…Objective physical activity was assessed by wearing an accelerometer for 7 consecutive days. Results. No significant difference was found in sociodemographic data between the two groups (all p<0.05). …”
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Intervention for Social Frailty Focusing on Physical Activity and Reducing Loneliness: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Gen A, Higuchi Y, Ueda T, Hashimoto T, Kozuki W, Murakami T, Ishigami M

“…PA was assessed using a triaxial accelerometer. Loneliness was measured using the three-item version of the UCLA Loneliness Scale. …”
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Retention of bimanual performance following hand arm bimanual intensive therapy in children with unilateral cerebral palsy: A six-month longitudinal study. by Shailesh S Gardas, Christine Lysaght, Charity Patterson, Swati M Surkar

“…Bimanual performance was assessed using GT9X Link accelerometers, worn on bilateral wrists for 3 days pre-, post-, 3-, and 6-month of HABIT. …”
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Sense of belonging and its positive association with physical activity levels and negative association with sedentary behaviors in residential aged care facilities in COVID-19 pand... by Gonzalo Marchant, Emma Guillet-Descas, Natacha Heutte

“…Participants completed the Échelle de mesure du Sentiment d’Appartenance Sociale (ESAS) questionnaire three times and wore an accelerometer on their waists for 1 week each time to measure sedentary time and physical activity levels. …”
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The association of previous and current non-chronic low back pain with daily physical activity in middle- and older-aged adults by Tatiana Rehder Gonçalves, Diana Barbosa Cunha, Mauro Felippe Felix Mediano, Amal A. Wanigatunga, Eleanor M. Simonsick, Jennifer A. Schrack

“…Methods This is a cross-sectional analysis including volunteers from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging who answered questions about LBP and wore an Actiheart accelerometer for 7days. Generalized linear models and logistic models were used and adjusted for potential confounders. …”
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Reliability of a Low-Cost Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) to Measure Punch and Kick Velocity by Lukas Pezenka, Klaus Wirth

“…This study aims to develop a low-cost, accelerometer-based system to measure kick and punch velocities in combat athletes. …”
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Letter and Person Recognition in Freeform Air-Writing Using Machine Learning Algorithms by Huseyin Kunt, Zeki Yetgin, Furkan Gozukara, Turgay Celik

“…In the study, a dataset is also developed, containing the air-writing signals from the wearable glove, integrated with IMU sensors (gyroscope and accelerometer). Fourier and wavelet transforms are used to extract features and the performances of various machine learning algorithms, namely Decision Tree, Random-Forest, K-Nearest Neighbors, Support Vector Machine, Artificial Neural Networks, and SubSpace KNN, are comparatively studied. …”
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Objectively measured physical activity according to the periods of the day in the Pelotas Cohort by Andrea Wendt, Fernando C. Wehrmeister, Luiza I. C. Ricardo, Bruna Gonçalves C. da Silva, Rafaela C. Martins, Helen Gonçalves, Felipe F. Reichert, Inácio Crochemore-Silva

“…PA was assessed by triaxial accelerometer. Descriptive analyses were performed presenting the time spent on light PA (LPA) and bouted moderate to vigorous PA (MVPA) in different periods of the day (morning - 6am to 11:59 am, afternoon – 12pm to 7:59 pm and night – 8pm to 11:59pm). …”
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Temporal Characteristics of High-Frequency Lower-Limb Oscillation during Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s Disease by Don A. Yungher, Tiffany R. Morris, Valentina Dilda, James M. Shine, Sharon L. Naismith, Simon J. G. Lewis, Steven T. Moore

“…The corresponding accelerometer records were analyzed within a 4 s window centered at the clinical onset of freezing. …”
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Type and physical intensity of occupations at pulmonary TB diagnosis by M. Saroufim, C. Geric, A. Majidulla, A. Abjani, G. Tavaziva, S. Saeed, A.J. Khan, F. Ahmad Khan

“…DESIGN/METHODS: We did a secondary analysis of data from a study evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of artificial intelligence-based chest X-ray (CXR) analysis software, where individuals had been evaluated for active PTB using sputum cultures and had provided information on occupation. We used an accelerometer-validated US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey-based job categorisation to assign physical activity levels to participant-reported occupations as High, Intermediate, or Low. …”
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Smartphone postural sway and pronator drift tests as measures of neurological disability by Michael Calcagni, Peter Kosa, Bibi Bielekova

“…These tests capture different domains of postural control and motoric dysfunction in healthy volunteers (n = 13) and people with neurological disorders (n = 68 relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis [MS]; n = 21 secondary progressive MS; n = 23 primary progressive MS; n = 13 other inflammatory neurological diseases; n = 21 non-inflammatory neurological diseases; n = 4 clinically isolated syndrome; n = 1 radiologically isolated syndrome). Smartphone accelerometer data was transformed into digital biomarkers, which were filtered in the training cohort (~ 80% of subjects) for test–retest reproducibility and correlations with subdomains of neurological examinations and validated imaging biomarkers. …”
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Associations of daily step count with all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality in hypertensive US adults: a cohort study from NHANES 2005–2006 by Tuo Guo, Yang Zhou, Guifang Yang, Aifang Zhong, Xiaogao Pan, Yuting Pu, Michael Simons, Lijuan Sheng, Xiangping Chai

“…Methods We used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2005–2006, including 1,629 hypertensive participants with accelerometer-measured step counts. Cox proportional hazards models and restricted cubic spline regression were employed to assess the associations between daily step count and mortality outcomes. …”
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Digital intervention promoting physical activity among obese people (DIPPAO) randomised controlled trial: study protocol by Bruno Pereira, Martine Duclos, Alexandre Mazéas, Aïna Chalabaev, Marine Blond

“…The primary outcome of the study is the daily step count change between the baseline assessment and the end of the intervention. Accelerometer data, self-reported PA, body composition and physical capacities will also be evaluated. …”
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To remove or to replace traditional electronic games? A crossover randomised controlled trial on the impact of removing or replacing home access to electronic games on physical act... by Anne J Smith, Leon M Straker, Rebecca A Abbott

“…From 210 children who were eligible, 74 met inclusion criteria, 8 withdrew and 10 had insufficient primary outcome measures, leaving 56 children (29 female) for analysis.Intervention A counterbalanced randomised order of three conditions sustained for 8 weeks each: no home access to electronic games, home access to traditional electronic games and home access to active input electronic games.Main outcome measures Primary outcome was accelerometer assessed moderate/vigorous physical activity (MVPA). …”
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A systematic scoping review of latent class analysis applied to accelerometry-assessed physical activity and sedentary behavior. by Michael Kebede, Annie Green Howard, Yumeng Ren, Blake Anuskiewicz, Chongzhi Di, Melissa A Troester, Kelly R Evenson

“…About two-thirds (63%) of the studies used accelerometry only and 38% combined accelerometry and self-report to derive latent classes. The accelerometer-based variables in the LCA model included measures by day of the week (38%), weekday vs. weekend (13%), weekly average (13%), dichotomized minutes/day (13%), sex specific z-scores (13%), and hour-by-hour (13%). …”
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Nation-wide cohort of device-measured sedentary time and physical activity in the USA—the Cancer Prevention Study-3 (CPS-3) Accelerometry Substudy: cohort profile by Erika Rees-Punia, Alpa Patel, Jillian Nelson, Peter J Briggs, Nance Joiner, James M Hodge, Jeuneviette E Bontemps-Jones, Den E Bloodworth, Ashley Yeager, Jeshondria McCrary

“…Among the 23 111 participants who registered and were shipped an ActiGraph GT3X+ accelerometer, 21 219 participants returned the device with a complete wear log (91.8%) and 20 950 (90.6%) provided at least three adherent days of data (eg, days with at least 10 hours of wear).Findings to date Participants with ≥3 adherent days were predominantly female (n=16 187, 77.3%), non-Latino white (n=17 977, 85.8%) and had an average age of 58 years (SD=9.8). …”
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The Thermosphere Is a Drag: The 2022 Starlink Incident and the Threat of Geomagnetic Storms to Low Earth Orbit Space Operations by T. E. Berger, M. Dominique, G. Lucas, M. Pilinski, V. Ray, R. Sewell, E. K. Sutton, J. P. Thayer, E. Thiemann

“…We use empirical model (NRLMSIS, JB08, and HASDM) outputs as well as solar extreme ultraviolet occultation and high‐fidelity accelerometer data to show that thermospheric density was at least 20%–30% higher at 210 km relative to the 9 days prior to the launch due to consecutive geomagnetic storms related to solar eruptions from NOAA AR12936 on 29 January 2022. …”
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Promoting Optimal Physical Exercise for Life: An Exercise and Self-Management Program to Encourage Participation in Physical Activity after Discharge from Stroke Rehabilitation—A F... by Avril Mansfield, Svetlana Knorr, Vivien Poon, Elizabeth L. Inness, Laura Middleton, Louis Biasin, Karen Brunton, Jo-Anne Howe, Dina Brooks

“…Compliance with wearing an accelerometer for 6 weeks continuously and completing physical activity questionnaires was high (>80%), whereas only 34% of daily heart rate data were available. …”
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Effects of group sports activities on physical activity and social interaction abilities of children with autism spectrum disorders by Yu Xing, Yu Xing, Shuaibin Huang, Yatong Zhao, Xueping Wu

“…Physical activity was monitored using a three-axis accelerometer (Model: ActiGraph GT3X+), and social interaction ability was measured using the playground observation of peer engagement (POPE) observation scale to evaluate the social interaction states of children in the experimental group after the physical activities.Results and discussionAfter the intervention, the sitting time of children in the experimental group was significantly reduced (t = −12.735, p &lt; 0.001, Cohen d = 2.75), and the time of moderate and high-intensity physical activity was significantly increased (t = −8.79, p &lt; 0.001, Cohen d = 1.82). …”
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