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2003· letter· en· W2091262070 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueMedicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 2003
Typeletter
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPhysical Activity and Health
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhysical activityPsychologyCoronary heart diseaseGerontologyMedicinePhysical therapy

Abstract

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There are good reasons to conduct international comparisons of physical activity. For example, it is well established that there are large differences in the prevalence of coronary heart disease (CHD) among countries (3). However, the extent to which physical activity contributes to these differences is uncertain because the lack of standardized surveys has hindered progress in this area. The article by Craig et al. (1) in the current issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise® is both important and timely. It establishes the validity and reliability of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ), a physical activity surveillance instrument suitable for use in modernized and developing countries. Two key features of the IPAQ are that it can be translated into many languages and modified with “culturally relevant” examples of moderate and vigorous physical activity. The authors of the current article, along with the members of the IPAQ consensus group, deserve credit for an impressive collaborative effort. Just as the “seven countries” study of Keys and coworkers (2) taught us about international differences in dietary fat intake and their relationship to CHD, the IPAQ has the potential to do the same for physical activity. In 1995, a group of physical activity epidemiologists and researchers formed the IPAQ Consensus group on Physical Activity Measurement. Michael Pratt of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Michael Booth of the New Children’s Hospital in Sydney, Australia, coordinated the group, which included members from 20 countries. In 1998, they met in Geneva under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO) to plan the development of a standardized physical activity instrument. The CDC, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, the Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute in Ottawa, the University of South Carolina Prevention Research Center, and the Center for Physical Activity and Health in Sydney all supported the efforts of this group. The initial work of this group was to conduct a reliability and validity study of the IPAQ, and the study was subsequently carried out in 14 centers in 12 countries, across a range of nations, cultures, and language groups. Since the development of the IPAQ, the European Union National Physical Activity Surveillance System and the WHO have used it for monitoring and surveillance. There are also other similar international measures being developed and tested for use in cardiovascular surveillance. The IPAQ group has recently begun an international prevalence study using the IPAQ short instrument. This study is currently underway, with initial data expected at the end of 2003 from approximately 15 participating countries. This will enable, for the first time, an international prevalence comparison of physical activity using an instrument developed and validated in multiple countries. The IPAQ is an instrument that is still being tested. It is a first attempt at developing such a surveillance tool, long overdue in physical activity. It may not be the definitive answer to all physical activity epidemiology needs, but for a self-report instrument, it does appear to have acceptable measurement properties across countries and is worthy of further exploration. David R. Bassett Jr.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.150
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.036
GPT teacher head0.330
Teacher spread0.295 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it