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Table 2 Comparison of time spent in activity location and purpose using previous day recall and direct observation

From: Validation of a previous day recall for measuring the location and purpose of active and sedentary behaviors compared to direct observation

Adults

Direct observation

Previous-day recall vs. Direct observation

N

Minutes

% Agree (Kappa)

Bias (95% CI)

ICC (95% CI)

Mean (SD)

Total

27

226.9 (94.3)

NA

28.6 (6.9, 50.3)*

0.81 (0.58, 0.91)*

Home

19

108.9 (77.5)

85.2% (0.58)+

2.8 (-8.8, 14.4)

0.96 (0.91, 0.98)*

Work/School

16

185.4 (114.7)

92.6% (0.85)+

14.2 (-4.0, 32.5)

0.93 (0.86, 0.97)*

Community

20

54.4 (46.4)

92.6% (0.81)+

10.9 (-7.4, 29.2)

0.71 (0.47, 0.86)*

Household activity

27

52.8 (49.5)

100% (#)

7.5 (-3.9, 19.0)

0.84 (0.69, 0.93)*

Work

17

160.9 (103.5)

85.2% (0.71)+

9.7 (-13.8, 33.2)

0.88 (0.75, 0.94)*

Education

5

44.5 (40.8)

85.2% (0.42)+

1.3 (-20.4, 23.0)

0.12 (-0.29, 0.48)

Transportation

18

25.7 (15.4)

88.9% (0.74)+

0.0 (-5.9, 5.8)

0.62 (0.32, 0.81)*

Leisure

23

55.6 (42.1)

74.0% (0.32)+

7.1 (-23.7, 38.0)

0.55 (0.23, 0.77)*

Adolescents

     

Total

26

220.9 (65.8)

NA

24.4 (10.5, 38.2)*

0.80 (0.47, 0.92)*

Home

24

128.2 (79.4)

100% (1.00)+

21.4 (2.8, 40.0)*

0.84 (0.64, 0.93)*

Work/School

5

87.5 (101.8)

80.8% (0.20)+

3.7 (-23.0, 30.4)

0.47 (0.10, 0.72)*

Community

19

117.2 (78.4)

88.5% (0.66)+

5.9 (-25.0, 36.8)

0.73 (0.48, 0.87)*

Household activity

26

36.1 (32.4)

88.5% (#)

14.3 (-2.7, 31.4)

0.46 (0.12, 0.71)*

Work

2

79.7 (106.9)

92.3% (#)

-10.6 (-25.8, 4.5)

NA

Education

5

85.6 (107.2)

80.8% (0.20)+

-4.2 (-17.7, 9.2)

0.78 (0.58, 0.90)*

Transportation

17

22.1 (13.0)

88.5% (0.76)+

1.8 (-4.7, 8.3)

0.67 (0.39, 0.84)*

Leisure

26

147.7 (61.2)

100% (1.00#)

40.4 (-1.1, 82.0)

0.49 (0.13, 0.73)*

  1. Note: N is number of segments in which the location/purpose was observed for at least 1 minute. ICC is intraclass correlation.
  2. *Indicates statistical significance at p < 0.05, #indicates the Kappa was not computable; +indicates agreement is not by chance according to McNemar Test.