What is it about?
Most physical activity (PA) studies exclude individuals with severe and profound intellectual disabilities and the reasons for these exclusions are unclear. Therefore, this study explored the practicalities of recruiting and measuring adults with intellectual disabilities, including those with severe and profound intellectual disabilities. Each individual and their carer or family filled in a questionnaire where they were asked about their PA over the previous 7 days; after that, they were given an accelerometer for 7 days to measure their physical activities.
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Why is it important?
Four things were found to be important for this type of study: (i) where participants lived; (ii) what was used in measuring their PA; (iii) their reported PA was similar to what their family/carer said; and (iv) it was also similar to what was measured.
Perspectives
The study showed that it is possible to measure PA irrespective of the intellectual disability severity and that adult with intellectual disabilities can tell you about their PA and so can their relatives/carers without the need for expensive equipment.
Yetunde Dairo
Oxford Brookes University
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This page is a summary of: A feasibility study into the measurement of physical activity levels of adults with intellectual disabilities using accelerometers and the International Physical Activity Questionnaire, British Journal of Learning Disabilities, April 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/bld.12188.
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