168 Results Found

Ambient temperature has been associated with daily step counts, but evidence characterizing continuous, non-linear relationships in older adults remains limited, particularly in large cohorts with repeated daily measurements. This study examined the...

Wearable sensors provide objective, continuous, and non-invasive quantification of physical activity, with step count serving as one of the most intuitive measures. However, significant gait alterations in individuals with neurological conditions lim...

Background/Objectives: Frailty is an under-recognized preoperative risk factor for poor surgical outcomes. Recovery of preoperative ambulation levels one month after surgery represents an important patient-centered outcome. The purpose of this study...

Purpose: To investigate the relationships between daily step counts and physical fitness in preschool children. Methods: Preschoolers’ step counts were assessed by ActiGraph accelerometers consecutively for seven days. Physical fitness was asse...

Thailand’s first national steps challenge has been implemented in 2020 with the goal to raise the level of physical activity nationwide by monitoring achievements through a smartphone application. This study examined the daily step counts of pa...

Background: People with Parkinson’s disease (PwPD) often experience sleep disturbances and reduced physical activity. Altered sleep behavior and lower daily steps have been linked to disease severity and symptom burden. Although physical activi...

The aim of the present study was to examine the sex-related associations between accelerometer-measured daily step counts and adiposity indicators in adults from eight Latin American countries. We analyzed data from 2524 adults (aged 18–65 years) fro...

Background: We examined whether daily step counts under free-living conditions differed among four types of pedometers used by primary school children. Methods: In Study one, we compared the Yamax SW-200 (widely used in research) and the Kenz Lifecor...

This study investigated the changes in physical inactivity of university students during the COVID-19 pandemic, with reference to their academic calendar. We used the daily step counts recorded by a smartphone application (iPhone Health App) from Apr...

This study is part of the ToyBox-study, which is conducted in six European countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Poland and Spain), aiming to develop a cost-effective kindergarten-based, family-involved intervention to prevent overweight and...

For the various asthma-specific beneficial effects of physical activity, daily physical activity (DPA) and the potential of asthma therapies on DPA require better characterization. Hence, we aimed to determine (a) the DPA of asthma patients, and (b)...

This study aimed to evaluate the association between locomotive syndrome (LS) and daily physical activity (PA) in community-dwelling older adults. This cross-sectional study included 80 healthy Japanese older adults (40 men and 40 women; age: 60&ndas...

Background/Objectives: University life is often accompanied by unhealthy lifestyle behaviors, reduced physical activity, lower fitness levels, and a high prevalence of mental health symptoms. Daily step count has emerged as a practical indicator of h...

Daily steps could be a valuable indicator of real-world ambulation in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Nonetheless, no study to date has investigated the minimum number of days required to reliably estimate the average daily steps through commercial s...

The purpose of this study was to examine the validity of two wearable smartwatches (the Apple Watch 6 (AW) and the Galaxy Watch 4 (GW)) and smartphone applications (Apple Health for iPhone mobiles and Samsung Health for Android mobiles) for estimatin...

Background/Objectives: This study explored the association between daily step count (DSC) and health outcomes in older adults in Spain. A total of 668 individuals aged 60–100 years (mean = 71.33 ± 8.11 years) participated. Methods: Parti...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease characterized by hyperglycemia and alterations in lipid and protein metabolism. Daily step count, measured using accelerometers integrated into wearable devices with artificial intelligence support, represe...

Background: Bed rest with limited physical activity is common during admission. The aim was to determine the association between daily step count and physical activity levels during and after admission with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and the...

An adequate amount of physical activity (PA) is a key factor that is associated with good health. This study assessed socio-environmental factors associated with meeting the health recommendations for PA (achieving 10,000 steps per day). In total, 1,...

The activPAL (PAL Technologies, Glasgow, UK) has been increasingly used on children to assess sedentary time and physical activity (PA). However, there is no consensus on how it can estimate PA at different intensities. This study compared three comm...

Background: The wearable cardioverter–defibrillator (WCD) has a built-in accelerometer, which allows tracking of patients’ physical activity by remote monitoring. It is unclear whether WCD-measured physical activity, step count, and heart rate correl...

The health benefits of objectively measured physical activity volume versus intensity have rarely been studied, particularly in non-western populations. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between cardiometabolic risk factors and...

Wearable sensors are increasingly used to monitor physical activity, yet low-power devices often rely on data aggregation to conserve battery life, potentially impacting measurement accuracy. This study evaluates the performance of a new low-power we...

Living a sedentary lifestyle is one of the major causes of numerous health problems. To encourage employees to lead a less sedentary life, the Hanze University started a health promotion program. One of the interventions in the program was the use of...

Adequate energy intake is essential for the healthy development of children, and the estimated energy requirement of children is determined by total daily energy expenditure (TDEE) and energy deposition for growth. A previous study in Japanese tweens...

Walking is crucial for independence and quality of life. This study leverages wrist-worn sensor data from UK Biobank participants to establish normative daily-life walking data, stratified by age and sex, to provide benchmarks for research and clinic...

Background: Step count has emerged as an objective indicator of physical activity, yet its association with functional recovery following hip fracture remains unclear. Objective: This study aimed to evaluate daily step counts after hospital discharge...

Background: This study compared the early rehabilitation progress of patients undergoing robotic-assisted medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (mUKA) and robotic-assisted kinematically aligned total knee arthroplasty (rKA-TKA), focusing on daily...

This study assessed and compared the daily step counts recorded by two different motion sensors in order to estimate the free-living physical activity of 135 adolescent girls. Each girl concurrently wore a Yamax pedometer and an ActiGraph acceleromet...

Background: Fractures of the lower extremity are commonly associated with impaired mobility, whereas injuries of the upper extremity primarily affect limb-specific function. Wearable devices allow the objective and continuous monitoring of physical a...

Frailty in older adults is a multidimensional syndrome characterized by reduced physiological resilience and heightened vulnerability to adverse outcomes, yet conventional assessments remain largely clinic-based. This study evaluated the feasibility...

Step counting represents a valuable approach to monitor the amount of daily physical activity. The feet, wrist and trunk have been demonstrated as the ideal locations to automatically detect the number of steps through body-worn devices (i.e., step c...

Introduction: Step counts are increasingly used to assess mobility and track recovery following total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The purpose of this study was to assess the convergent validity of step count data captured by a smart implantable device (...

Maintaining physical activity is an important clinical goal for people with Parkinson’s disease (PwPD). We investigated the validity of two commercial activity trackers (ATs) to measure daily step counts. We compared a wrist- and a hip-worn com...

Under the strategy of Healthy China, students’ physical health status not only affects their future life and studies but also influences social progress and development. By monitoring and measuring the daily PA levels of Chinese students over a...

Background: There is a limited amount of evidence concerning the association between seasonal variation and the level of physical activity in individuals with chronic disease. This longitudinal observational study aimed to explore seasonal, monthly,...

Paths for All’s 8-week online Workplace Step Count Challenge (SCC) is a flagship program of Scotland’s National Walking Strategy. The aim of this study was to examine changes in step counts throughout the duration of the SCC, across four years of del...

Background: Studies have shown that outdoor play in nature is associated with a higher physical activity level than indoor play. We aimed to examine the effect of outdoor versus conventional kindergartens on objectively measured physical activity. Me...

Community-based digital transformation (DX) initiatives are increasingly used to promote healthy aging, although their effects are often evaluated using subjective self-reported measures. This study aimed to quantitatively evaluate a community DX hea...

The purpose of the current study is to investigate the changes in physical activity (PA), sleep time (ST), and body weight (BW) Pre- and during COVID-19 in South Korea, and specifically, PA data were obtained during COVID-19 at three-time points base...

In the United States, the Latinx population has the highest prevalence of physical inactivity compared with other ethnicities. Research shows that work-based physical activity interventions have been widely implemented in the non-Latinx population an...

Measures of stepping volume and rate are common outputs from wearable devices, such as accelerometers. It has been proposed that biomedical technologies, including accelerometers and their algorithms, should undergo rigorous verification as well as a...

This study investigated the relationship between stepping-defined daily activity levels, time spent in different postures, and the patterns and intensities of stepping behaviour. Using a thigh-mounted triaxial accelerometer, physical activity data fr...

Using m-Health apps can provide researchers and others with an effective way for improving physical activity (PA) and healthy lifestyle behaviors. The promotion of health should move from a model focused on the physical and biological basis of illnes...

Stepping-based targets such as the number of steps per day provide an intuitive and commonly used method of prescribing and self-monitoring physical activity goals. Physical activity surveillance is increasingly being obtained from wrist-worn acceler...

The study was conducted mainly to examine the convergent validity of the Patient Reported Outcome Measurement Information System-Pediatric Physical Activity instrument (PROMIS^®®®-PA) with step counts from wearable devices and another vali...

With the growing interest in daily activity monitoring, several insole designs have been developed to identify postures, detect activities, and count steps. However, the validity of these devices is not clearly established. The aim of this systematic...

Background: Many studies have identified key factors affecting the rates of engagement in physical activity in older adults with chronic disease. Environmental conditions, such as weather variations, can present challenges for individuals with chroni...

The measurement of daily step counts is a widely adopted and efficacious approach for assessing children’s physical activity levels. With the aim of finding out the effect of daily PA sessions in schools on the total PA levels in terms of steps...

Active-living-friendly environments have been linked to physical activity, but their relationships with specific markers of cardiometabolic health remain unclear. We estimated the associations between active-living environments and markers of cardiom...