A Youth Compendium of Physical Activities: Activity Codes and Metabolic Intensities
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PURPOSE: A Youth Compendium of Physical Activities (Youth Compendium) was developed to estimate the energy costs of physical activities using data on youth only. METHODS: On the basis of a literature search and pooled data of energy expenditure measurements in youth, the energy costs of 196 activities were compiled in 16 activity categories to form a Youth Compendium of Physical Activities. To estimate the intensity of each activity, measured oxygen consumption (V˙O2) was divided by basal metabolic rate (Schofield age-, sex-, and mass-specific equations) to produce a youth MET (METy). A mixed linear model was developed for each activity category to impute missing values for age ranges with no observations for a specific activity. RESULTS: This Youth Compendium consists of METy values for 196 specific activities classified into 16 major categories for four age-groups, 6-9, 10-12, 13-15, and 16-18 yr. METy values in this Youth Compendium were measured (51%) or imputed (49%) from youth data. CONCLUSION: This Youth Compendium of Physical Activities uses pediatric data exclusively, addresses the age dependency of METy, and imputes missing METy values and thus represents advancement in physical activity research and practice. This Youth Compendium will be a valuable resource for stakeholders interested in evaluating interventions, programs, and policies designed to assess and encourage physical activity in youth.
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Collectively, the Youth Compendium, Adult Compendium, and Older Adult Compendium provide MET values for PAs across the lifespan.
“Collectively, the Youth Compendium,19 Adult Compendium, and Older Adult Compendium22 provide MET values for PAs across the lifespan.”
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- BUTTE, N. F., WATSON, K. B., RIDLEY, K., ZAKERI, I. F., MCMURRAY, R. G., PFEIFFER, K. A., CROUTER, S. E., HERRMANN, S. D., BASSETT, D. R., LONG, A., BERHANE, Z., TROST, S. G., AINSWORTH, B. E., BERRIGAN, D., & FULTON, J. E.
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- Baylor College of Medicine (US)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
- Flinders University (AU)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Queensland University of Technology (AU)
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- Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
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- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Complementary and alternative medicine › Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
- Keywords
- energy expenditure, physical activity, youth, oxygen consumption, basal metabolic rate, physical activity intensity, age dependence, missing data imputation, physical activity guidelines
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Basal Metabolism, Child, Energy Metabolism, Female, Humans, Male, Oxygen Consumption, Reference Values, Exercise, Metabolic Equivalent
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