Assessing Physical Activity Levels of Elderly Malays Living in Semi-Rural Areas Using Tri-Axial Accelerometer.
Introduction: Population-based physical activity (PA) data are lacking in multicultural South East Asia. Malaysian elderly Malays, for example, are occupied daily with religious and community activities. Those living in rural areas also have a distinctively different lifestyle in terms of walking ha...
| Publicado en: | Malaysian Journal of Nutrition Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 363 - 375 |
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Nutrition Society of Malaysia
2016
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=121510684&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 121510684 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 1394035X 6CKY jtl: Malaysian Journal of Nutrition issn: 1394035X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2016 vid: 22 iid: 3 pid: 49148 pub: Nutrition Society of Malaysia artinfo: ui: 121510684 121510684 121510684 121510684 ppf: 363 ppct: 12 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Assessing Physical Activity Levels of Elderly Malays Living in Semi-Rural Areas Using Tri-Axial Accelerometer. aug: au: Nurdiana A. C. M., Ahmad Munir Singh, Rabindarjeet W. J., Brown Clark B. affil: Lifestyle Science Cluster, Advanced Medical and Dental Institute, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia sug: subj: Farmworkers Physical Activity Accelerometry Rural Areas Accelerometers Time Women Malays Psychosocial Factors Middle Age Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test Aged Female Mann-Whitney U Test Stratified Random Sample Simple Random Sample Malaysia Descriptive Statistics Confidence Intervals Data Analysis Study Design Daily Logs Cross Sectional Studies Prospective Studies Multi-Stage Cluster Data Collection Surveys Sensitivity and Specificity Questionnaires Interviews Middle Aged: 45-64 years Aged: 65+ years Female ab: Introduction: Population-based physical activity (PA) data are lacking in multicultural South East Asia. Malaysian elderly Malays, for example, are occupied daily with religious and community activities. Those living in rural areas also have a distinctively different lifestyle in terms of walking habits and leisure-time activities, compared to people from urban areas. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 146 community-dwelling Malay adults aged 60 to 85 years (mean (SD) = 67.6 (6.4) years) living in semi-rural areas in Seberang Perai Utara, Penang, Malaysia. Each participant was interviewed using a questionnaire for their socio-economic background and self-reported PA levels. Then, the participants were invited to wear an accelerometer (ActiGraph GT3X or GT3X+) during their waking hours for seven consecutive days. Results: Daily activity patterns of the participants were dominated by sedentary time (7.9 (SD 2.1) hours/day; 52% of wear time) and light intensity activity (7.0 (1.9) hours/day; 46% of wear time). The participants spent 24 (SD 30) minutes daily in ‘health enhancing’ (i.e. moderatevigorous intensity) activities. Men spent significantly more time in higher intensity acti-vities than women. Average daily step count was more than 10,000 (mean = 12,542 [4,857]) steps/day. Conclusion: Based on the accelerometer counts, these elderly Malay participants were assessed to be sedentary for most of the time during the day, though their daily step count exceeded 10,000 on average. Community- living older adults, especially women,should be encouraged to increase their physical activity levels. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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