Validation Studies of the Auckland Heart Study (AHS) Physical Activity Questionnaire

Elley et al. 2003

See reference #04

Methods

Relation between the AHS PAQ administered twice, and a 7-day activity diary (7-d AD) and pedometer (PED) (Spearman’s correlation coefficients)

Sample

34 “less active” old men and women; 10% Maori, 90% European; 40-79 years of age

Summary Results

	7-d AD	PED
1st AHS
TEE	0.59	0.22
Total Moderate	0.50**	0.37*
Leisure Moderate	0.52**
Leisure vigorous	0.39**
2nd AHS
TEE	0.74***	0.49***
Total moderate activity	0.72***	0.51***
Leisure moderate	0.59***
Leisure vigorous	0.65***

* p < 0.05   ** p < 0.01   *** p < 0.001