Reliability, validity, and methodological issues in assessing physical activity in older adults

RE Rikli - Research quarterly for exercise and sport, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
… ton involving older adult assessments we have found that to achieve reliable measures we
… trials were required to obtain reliable measures for older people than generally are needed …

Older adults' reporting of specific sedentary behaviors: validity and reliability

J Van Cauwenberg, V Van Holle, I De Bourdeaudhuij… - BMC public health, 2014 - Springer
… of older adults’ sedentary behaviors. We examined the criterion validity and test-retest reliability
of a … sedentary behaviors in older adults. Additionally, we examined whether the criterion …

Validity and reliability of the short physical performance battery in two diverse older adult populations in Quebec and Brazil

AN Freire, RO Guerra, B Alvarado… - Journal of aging …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
… of reliability and validity of the SPPB in two community samples. We evaluated the reliability
by … Thus, we also evaluated the validity of SPPB against presence of chronic conditions, …

The reliability and validity of ultrasound to quantify muscles in older adults: a systematic review

W Nijholt, A Scafoglieri… - Journal of cachexia …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… ultrasound is reliable for the measurement of muscle size in older adults extends … reliability
of ultrasound in older adults is comparable with reliability estimates found in younger adults

Using a single question to assess physical activity in older adults: a reliability and validity study

DP Gill, GR Jones, G Zou, M Speechley - BMC medical research …, 2012 - Springer
… of reliability and validity are … reliability, convergent validity and discriminant validity of an
absolute PA question and a relative PA question, in a sample of community-dwelling older adults

[PDF][PDF] Measuring older adults' sedentary time: reliability, validity, and responsiveness

PA Gardiner, BK Clark, GN Healy, EG Eakin… - Medicine and science …, 2011 - core.ac.uk
reliability, validity and responsiveness to change of a self-… time spent in behaviors common
among older adults: watching … older adults to report validity for self-report sedentary time …

Validity and reliability of a portable balance tracking system, BTrackS, in older adults

SS Levy, KJ Thralls, SA Kviatkovsky - Journal of geriatric physical …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
… Thus, a critical need is observed for valid objective field measures of … validity and 3-day
test-retest reliability of Balance Tracking System (BTrackS) in community-dwelling older adults. …

The reliability and validity of measures of gait variability in community-dwelling older adults

JS Brach, S Perera, S Studenski… - Archives of physical …, 2008 - Elsevier
… to examine reliability and validity of measures of temporal and spatial gait variability in a
large sample of community-dwelling older adults. Specifically, we report test-retest reliability of …

Validity and reliability of the SF-36 in Chilean older adults: the ALEXANDROS study

L Lera, A Fuentes-García, H Sánchez… - European Journal of …, 2013 - Springer
… We have demonstrated the reliability and validity of SF-36 questionnaire … older people. After
adjusting by age and gender, the main predictors of low health related QoL in Chilean older

Testing reliability and validity of the eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS) for older adults recruited online

SY Chung, ES Nahm - CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Older adults in particular are late adopters of the Internet, and … test the reliability and validity
of the eHEALS for older adults … is a reliable and valid tool that can be used for older adults. …