Hello,

My opinion is the ipaq questionnaire is much better at this situation.

It depends, on adulthood GPAQ works well, but with children and adolescent something else should be used (e.g. PAQ-C), as well as with elderly (e.g. PASE).

Some references:

Article Validity of the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ...

Article Validation of the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire for...

http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/10/9/3967

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156354

Review the systematic studies of both instruments and check the background in the sample you are going to use

hi

I did not work with any physical activity questionnaire in my studies, but you can use from used physical activity questionnaire in articles, because i beleive this is only correct way

thank you all for your interventions.

You can use the short form of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ).

It is easy to apply and in a very short time.

Thanks Cristian Pérez Tapia

Hello,

My opinion is the IPAQ questionnaire is much better at this situation

@Aynollah Naderi Long or Short IPAQ?

It depends on the aim and the target population you want to study. I've used the IPAQ-SF on a group of young adults and it was easy to complete by them and it allowed me to look at the level of PA in terms of level and METs. So I would vote for it.

Good luck

sincerely thank you for your remarkable contribution @ghaidaa

Hi Jerson the GPAQ was not eally intended so much as a research tool (although I have published at least one paper using it) The IPAQ is validated as a research tool and well validated and has good correlations with more direct (accelerometers etc) measures of PA, hope this helps good luck.

Sincerely thanks you @Trevor Simper for your intervention,

Where can i found your article for reading?

Hi Jerson: here are a couple of papers which use the IPAQ and the SPAQ

Article Greater Glycaemic Response to an Oral Glucose Load in Health...

Article Responses to oral glucose challenge differ by physical activ...

The GPAQ paper is still ongoing so I dont have that one to share yet- it is shorter than the IPAQ and that is why we used it- as the project already had a long set of questionnaires and it seemed onerous for the participants- the IPAQ is easy to administer and well validated, good luck! Trevor.

Thanks again Trevor

Why not do a study on this??? take a sample and administer both questionnaires and determine which reflects more closely.

Jerson Mekoulou I have created a couple of tools to calculate the variables from IPAQ short and long version.

They are available in my profile:

Long version tool -> Code IPAQ-LongForm spreadsheet tool

Short version tool -> Code IPAQ-ShortForm spreadsheet tool

I hope they are useful for you.

Best.

Thanks a lot dear Javier Brazo-Sayavera

Dear Researcher,

Good day.

First at all, in academic research's world is actually no such how appropriate is one instrument been used to measure to all type of study but it is regarding or according to one's study designated Research Questions or "Gap" that would like to fill up ok?

Secondly, researcher may need to read thru both instruments thoroughly and make decision that still fall back to your study's intention or objectives concerned. TQ.