A Youth Compendium of Physical Activities: Activity Codes and Metabolic Intensities

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• Personal Author:
  Butte, Nancy F. ; Watson, Kathleen B. ; Ridley, Kate ; Zakeri, Issa F. ; McMurray, Robert G. ; Pfeiffer, Karin A. ; Crouter, Scott E. ; Herrmann, Stephen D. ; Bassett, David R. ; Long, Alexander ; Berhane, Zekarias ; Trost, Stewart G. ; Ainsworth, Barbara E. ; Berrigan, David ; Fulton, Janet E.
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• Description:
  Purpose ; A Youth Compendium of Physical Activities (Youth Compendium) was developed to estimate the energy costs of physical activities using data on youth only. ; Methods ; Based on a literature search and pooled data of energy expenditure measurements in youth, the energy costs of 196 activities were compiled in 16 activity categories to form a Youth Compendium of Physical Activities. To estimate the intensity of each activity, measured oxygen consumption (V̇O2) was divided by basal metabolic rate (Schofield age-, sex- and mass-specific equations) to produce a youth MET (METy). A mixed linear model was developed for each activity category to impute missing values for age ranges with no observations for a specific activity. ; Results ; This Youth Compendium consists of METy values for 196 specific activities classified into 16 major categories for four age groups, 6-9, 10-12, 13-15, and 16-18 years. METy values in this Youth Compendium were measured (51%) or imputed (49%) from youth data. ; Conclusion ; This Youth Compendium of Physical Activities uses pediatric data exclusively, addresses the age-dependency of METy and imputes missing METy values and thus represents advancement in the physical activity research and practice. This Youth Compendium will be a valuable resource for stakeholders interested in evaluating interventions, programs, and policies designed to assess and encourage physical activity in youth.
• Subjects:
  • Adolescent
  • Basal Metabolism
  • Child
  • Energy Metabolism
  • Exercise
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Metabolic Equivalent
  • Oxygen Consumption
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• Keywords:
  • physical activity
  • metabolic equivalents (MET)
  • sedentary activity
  • light activity
  • moderate activity
  • vigorous activity
  • children
  • energy cost
• Source:
  Med Sci Sports Exerc. 50(2):246-256
• Pubmed ID:
  28938248
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5768467
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  50
• Issue:
  2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/50879/cdc_50879_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 803.54 KB]
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  CDC Public Access
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  urn:sha-512:6f1face6954c171270c5545a3a2bbe590d988ef920655d9f8f9e595c9fa1fb031adea9ff6cda653d3cf8f6b331e421810f70d8b2b9bb03d0f35b3c6cb6619571