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The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System [1] (PROMIS) provides clinicians and researchers access to reliable, valid, and flexible measures of health status that assess physical, mental, and social well–being from the patient perspective. PROMIS measures are standardized, allowing for assessment of many patient-reported ...
The Quality of Well-Being Scale (QWB) is a general health quality of life questionnaire which measures overall status and well-being over the previous three days in four areas: physical activities, social activities, mobility, and symptom/problem complexes. [1] It consists of 71 items and takes 20 minutes to complete. [2]
English: A model of the field of physical activity published by Lundvall, S. & Schantz, P. 2013 in The Global Journal of Health and Physical Education Pedagogy 2(1):1-16. It was, in that study, used to describe the past and the future ingredients in the subject physical education in schools in Sweden from 1813 to present times.
The Borg RPE scale is a numerical scale that ranges from 6 to 20, [8] where 6 means "no exertion at all" and 20 means "maximal exertion." When a measurement is taken, a number is chosen from the following scale by an individual that best describes their perceived level of exertion during physical activity.
These included the Patient Health questionnaire, [8] the General Anxiety Scale, [9] the Job Content [10] and International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). Beginning in 2009, under the direction of Professor Philip Awadalla, a total of 12 assessment sites across the province were established for clinical and physical assessments. [5]
The metabolic equivalent of task (MET) is the objective measure of the ratio of the rate at which a person expends energy, relative to the mass of that person, while performing some specific physical activity compared to a reference, currently set by convention at an absolute 3.5 mL of oxygen per kg per minute, which is the energy expended when sitting quietly by a reference individual, chosen ...
The International Charter of Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport [1] is a rights-based document which was adopted by member states of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), on 18 November 2015 during the 38th session of the UNESCO General Conference.
The physical activity level (PAL) is a way to express a person's daily physical activity as a number and is used to estimate their total energy expenditure. [1] In combination with the basal metabolic rate , it can be used to compute the amount of food energy a person needs to consume to maintain a particular lifestyle.