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Fukuyama Transporting Shibuya
Longevity Health Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan. YQL00705@nifty.com
Abstract
AIM:
In Japan, there are no valid and reliable
physical activity questionnaires for elderly people. In this study, we
translated the Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (PASE) into Japanese and
assessed its validity and reliability.
METHODS:
Three hundred and twenty-five
healthy and elderly subjects over 65 years were enrolled. Concurrent validity
was evaluated by Spearman's rank correlation coefficient between PASE scores
and an accelerometer (waking steps and energy expenditure), a physical activity
questionnaire for adults in general (the Japan Arteriosclerosis Longitudinal
Study Physical Activity Questionnaire, JALSPAQ), grip strength, mid-thigh
muscle area per bodyweight, static valance and bodyfat percentage. Reliability
was evaluated by the test-retest method over a period of 3-4 weeks.
RESULTS:
The mean PASE score in this study
was 114.9. The PASE score was significantly correlated with walking steps (rho
= 0.17, P = 0.014), energy expenditure (rho = 0.16, P = 0.024), activity
measured with the JALSPAQ (rho = 0.48, P < 0.001), mid-thigh muscle area per
bodyweight (rho = 0.15, P = 0.006) and static balance (rho = 0.19, P = 0.001).
The proportion of consistency in the response between the first and second
surveys was adequately high. The intraclass correlation coefficient for the PASE
score was 0.65.
CONCLUSIONS:
The Japanese version of PASE was
shown to have acceptable validity and reliability. The PASE is useful to
measure the physical activity of elderly people in Japan.
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