Clinical trial NCT06467058: Convergent Validity of DABQ Questionnaire
Official title: Convergent Validity of the DABQ Questionnaire With the Actigraph as Reference Method to Assess 24-hour Movement Behaviors Among Adults
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Health Behavior
Keywords: convergent validity
Actigraph
Daily activity behavior questionnaire
24-hour movement behaviors
Lead sponsor: University Ghent
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-06-20
Enrollment: 100
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: convergent validity of a daily activity behavior questionnaire with the actigraph as reference among healthy adults
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: Time-use epidemiology is a rapidly growing research area that aims to understand how individuals allocate their time to various activities throughout the day. Accurate assessment of daily activity behaviors, such as sleep, sedentary behavior (SB), light physical activity (LPA), and moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA), is crucial for studying the associations between activity patterns and health outcomes. To gather this information, researchers often rely on self-report questionnaires and objective measures, such as accelerometers, to provide a comprehensive understanding of individuals' activity levels.

Recently, a validated questionnaire known as the Daily Activity Behavior Questionnaire (DABQ) has been developed. In a study comparing DABQ estimates with the activPAL4 accelerometer (as the reference method), good results regarding absolute agreement and consistency were obtained for sleep duration (ICC 0.6), while the absolute agreement and consistency for SB, LPA, and MVPA estimates was lower (ICC ranging from 0.22-0.47).

It should be noted that this study acknowledges the limitation of not treating the data as compositional data. Compositional data analysis accounts for the relative distribution of different activities and avoids the assumption of independence between behaviors. Additionally, the activPAL4 accelerometer used as the reference method in the study had its own strengths and weaknesses when compared to other objective measures, such as the Actigraph. Where ActivPAL4 is more used to differentiate between sitting and standing, Actigraph is able to better classify activity intensities. Moreover, as recommended in different research, I use the Actigraph in my PhD to objectively asses 24-hour movement behaviors.

Given these considerations, the aim of this study is to validate the DABQ against the Actigraph as the reference method. Furthermore, this study aims to analyze the data as compositional data, which would provide a more comprehensive understanding of the interrelatedness of behaviors. The hypothesis is that there will be moderate convergent validity between the DABQ and Actigraph, allowing for accurate assessment of sleep duration, SB, LPA, and MVPA. By establishing the validity of the DABQ and considering the data as compositional, researchers can utilize this questionnaire in time-use epidemiology studies, which could be seen as an easy to use and cost-effective measurement method.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

- Adults between 18 and 65 years old

Exclusion Criteria:

* Physical (e.g. amputations, paralysis, recovering from stroke, osteoarthritis conditions that obstruct daily functioning
* Cognitive (e.g. dementia, psychological disorders) conditions that obstruct daily functioning
* Major medical (e.g. Chronic respiratory diseases, heart failure, cardiovascular diseases) conditions that obstruct daily functioning

Primary outcomes:
measure: Total 24-hour movement behaviors collected by the Actigraph GT3X+BT
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 weeks
measure: Total 24-hour movement behaviors collected by the Daily Activity Behavior Questionnaire (DABQ)
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 weeks
measure: Convergent validity between time spent in 24-hour movement behaviors collected by the Actigraph GT3X+BT and DABQ
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Participant characteristics "sex" potentially explaining biases in reporting 24-hour movement behaviors.
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 weeks
measure: Participant characteristics "age" potentially explaining biases in reporting 24-hour movement behaviors.
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 weeks
measure: Participant characteristics "body mass index" potentially explaining biases in reporting 24-hour movement behaviors.
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 weeks
measure: Participant characteristics "family situation" potentially explaining biases in reporting 24-hour movement behaviors.
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 weeks
measure: Participant characteristics "children" potentially explaining biases in reporting 24-hour movement behaviors.
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 weeks
measure: Participant characteristics "educational level" potentially explaining biases in reporting 24-hour movement behaviors.
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 weeks
measure: Participant characteristics "sedentary job" potentially explaining biases in reporting 24-hour movement behaviors.
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 weeks
measure: Participant characteristics "net family income" potentially explaining biases in reporting 24-hour movement behaviors.
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 weeks
measure: Participant characteristics "smoking status" potentially explaining biases in reporting 24-hour movement behaviors.
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 weeks
measure: Participant characteristics "feasibility of wearing the Actigraph" potentially explaining biases in reporting 24-hour movement behaviors.
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 weeks
measure: Participant characteristics "annoying to wear the Actigraph" potentially explaining biases in reporting 24-hour movement behaviors.
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 weeks
measure: Participant characteristics "consistency of wearing the Actigraph" potentially explaining biases in reporting 24-hour movement behaviors.
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Ghent
country: Belgium
facility: Ghent university Hospital
Study officials:
affiliation: University Ghent
name: Marieke De Craemer
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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