Browsing Articles - Sports & Health Sciences by Author "Purtill, Helen"
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Activity profiles and the associations with weight status in population studies of young children: are there gender differences?
O'Neill, Aoife; Dowd, Kieran P.; O'Gorman, Clodagh; Hannigan, Ailish; Walsh, Cathal; Purtill, Helen (Human Kinetics, 2017-02)Purpose: Profiling activity behaviors in young children is important to understand changes in weight status over time. The purpose of this study is to identify activity profiles from self- and parental-reported Physical ... -
Minimum wear duration for the activPAL™ Professional Activity Monitor in Adolescent Females.
Dowd, Kieran P.; Purtill, Helen; Harrington, Deirdre M.; Hislop, Jane; Reilly, John J.; Donnelly, Alan E. (Human Kinetics, 2017)Objectives: This study aims to determine the minimum number of days of monitoring required to reliably predict sitting/lying time, standing time, light intensity physical activity (LIPA), moderate-to-vigorous intensity ...