Kathleen A Martin Ginis1,2,3,4, Joan Úbeda-Colomer5,6,7, Abdullah A Alrashidi5,8,9, Tom E Nightingale10,5,11, Jason S Au12, Katharine D Currie5,13, Michèle Hubli5,14, Andrei Krassioukov10,5,15. 1. Department of Medicine, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. kathleen_martin.ginis@ubc.ca. 2. International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. kathleen_martin.ginis@ubc.ca. 3. School of Health and Exercise Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. kathleen_martin.ginis@ubc.ca. 4. Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, Canada. kathleen_martin.ginis@ubc.ca. 5. International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 6. School of Health and Exercise Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 7. Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, Canada. 8. Experimental Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 9. Physical Therapy Department, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 10. Department of Medicine, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 11. School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. 12. Department of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. 13. Department of Kinesiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA. 14. Spinal Cord Injury Center, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland. 15. GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre, Vancouver Coastal Health, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Abstract
STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional construct validation study. OBJECTIVES: To test the construct validity of the Leisure Time Physical Activity Questionnaire for People with Spinal Cord Injury (LTPAQ-SCI) by examining associations between the scale responses and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) in a sample of adults living with spinal cord injury (SCI). SETTING: Three university-based laboratories in Canada. METHODS: Participants were 39 adults (74% male; M age: 42 ± 11 years) with SCI who completed the LTPAQ-SCI and a graded exercise test to volitional exhaustion using an arm-crank ergometer. One-tailed Pearson's correlation coefficients were computed to examine the association between the LTPAQ-SCI measures of mild-, moderate-, heavy-intensity and total minutes per week of LTPA and CRF (peak volume of oxygen consumption [V̇O2peak] and peak power output [POpeak]). RESULTS: Minutes per week of mild-, moderate- and heavy-intensity LTPA and total LTPA were all positively correlated with V̇O2peak. The correlation between minutes per week of mild intensity LTPA and V̇O2peak was small-medium (r = 0.231, p = 0.079) while all other correlations were medium-large (rs ranged from 0.276 to 0.443, ps < 0.05). Correlations between the LTPAQ-SCI variables and POpeak were also positive but small (rs ranged from 0.087 to 0.193, ps > 0.05), except for a medium-sized correlation between heavy-intensity LTPA and POpeak (r = 0.294, p = 0.035). CONCLUSIONS: People with SCI who report higher levels of LTPA on the LTPAQ-SCI also demonstrate greater levels of CRF, with stronger associations between moderate- and heavy-intensity LTPA and CRF than between mild-intensity LTPA and CRF. These results provide further support for the construct validity of the LTPAQ-SCI as a measure of LTPA among people with SCI.
STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional construct validation study. OBJECTIVES: To test the construct validity of the Leisure Time Physical Activity Questionnaire for People with Spinal Cord Injury (LTPAQ-SCI) by examining associations between the scale responses and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) in a sample of adults living with spinal cord injury (SCI). SETTING: Three university-based laboratories in Canada. METHODS:Participants were 39 adults (74% male; M age: 42 ± 11 years) with SCI who completed the LTPAQ-SCI and a graded exercise test to volitional exhaustion using an arm-crank ergometer. One-tailed Pearson's correlation coefficients were computed to examine the association between the LTPAQ-SCI measures of mild-, moderate-, heavy-intensity and total minutes per week of LTPA and CRF (peak volume of oxygen consumption [V̇O2peak] and peak power output [POpeak]). RESULTS: Minutes per week of mild-, moderate- and heavy-intensity LTPA and total LTPA were all positively correlated with V̇O2peak. The correlation between minutes per week of mild intensity LTPA and V̇O2peak was small-medium (r = 0.231, p = 0.079) while all other correlations were medium-large (rs ranged from 0.276 to 0.443, ps < 0.05). Correlations between the LTPAQ-SCI variables and POpeak were also positive but small (rs ranged from 0.087 to 0.193, ps > 0.05), except for a medium-sized correlation between heavy-intensity LTPA and POpeak (r = 0.294, p = 0.035). CONCLUSIONS:People with SCI who report higher levels of LTPA on the LTPAQ-SCI also demonstrate greater levels of CRF, with stronger associations between moderate- and heavy-intensity LTPA and CRF than between mild-intensity LTPA and CRF. These results provide further support for the construct validity of the LTPAQ-SCI as a measure of LTPA among people with SCI.
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