Objective measures
This tool uses sensors to measure the amount and intensity of movement by detecting acceleration.
What is an accelerometer?
This subjective method involves participants recalling their physical activity over a specified period and can be paper-based or digital.
What is a recall survey?
During this life stage, you are often encouraged to participate in organised sports and physical activities as part of their education and development.
Childhood
This factor refers to the impact of family traditions and community norms on an individual's physical activity habits.
What are cultural factors?
This environmental factor includes the design and maintenance of urban spaces, which can impact residents' ability to engage in physical activity.
Urban planning
This objective method involves wearing a device that counts steps taken throughout the day.
What is pedometry?
This type of assessment involves trained observers systematically watching and recording physical activity in various settings.
What is observational assessment?
This historical period saw a significant rise in women’s participation in sports and physical activities, largely due to social movements advocating for gender equality.
The 20th century
This concept refers to societal attitudes and norms that can either encourage or discourage physical activity, often influenced by media and advertising.
Social factors
Refers to the nature and arrangement of places in a given area and the position of the area
Is highly suitable for measuring children and adolescents physical activity but is less suitable for measuring adults and older adults
What group of people is direct observation suitable to measure their physical activity?
Useful in a variety of community settings and school-based settings but is difficult to use with large populations and is time-consuming
Self-efficacy
Negative experiences at school, peer pressure and boy dominance in class may be barriers to which group of people
Teenagers and young women
What physical environments will often increase participation in physical activity?
Is highly suitable for measuring adolescents and adults physical activity but less suitable for chidlren
What age group are accelerometers suitable for measuring physical activity
Are usually completed on behalf of a person unable to reliably or accurately self-report
What is a proxy report?
This personal factor can affect a persons access to physical activity opportunities.
This cultural norm in some countries may discourage women from participating in certain physical activities due to societal expectations.
Gender norms
Accessibility and safety are barriers for people in what location?
Rural locations
Measures frequency, intensity, duration and energy expenditure but doesn't measure type and context. Is a high expense but has low reactivity.
What is an accelerometer suitable for measuring?
Measures frequency, intensity, duration, type, context, energy expenditure, is a low expense but has high reactivity
What are diaries suitable for assessing?
This historical factor, characterized by the industrial revolution, led to a significant decline in daily physical activity due to increased mechanisation and sedentary jobs.
Industrialisation
Are those with non-english speaking backgrounds at a higher risk of being inactive or are english speaking people
Non-english
The presence of cycling trails that connect communities
What is an example of how we can change the physical environment to increase physical activity?