Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the test–retest reliability of the motives for undertaking physical activity (PA) items from the Health Behavior in School-Aged Children (HBSC) study questionnaire among Slovak and Czech adolescents and to determine whether this reliability differs by gender, age group and country. We obtained data from 580 students aged 11 and 15 years old (51.2% boys) who participated in a test and retest study with a four-week interval in 2013 via the Health Behavior in School-Aged Children cross-sectional study in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. We estimated the test–retest reliability of all 13 dichotomized motives by using Intraclass Correlation Coefficients (ICC) and Cohen’s Kappa statistics, for continuous and dichotomized motives, respectively. Test–retest reliability showed moderate agreement for nine motives (ICC from 0.41 to 0.60) and fair agreement for four motives (ICC from 0.33 to 0.40). Kappa statistics were similarly moderate to large (0.33 to 0.61), except for three motives with small or trivial correlations. The motives “To improve my health” and “To enjoy the feeling of using my body” had consistently low Kappas and correlations. Overall, the results of this study suggest that most questions on motives for PA on the HBSC questionnaire have acceptable test–retest characteristics for use among adolescents.
Highlights
Physical activity (PA) is associated with adolescent healthiness and a low amount of physical activity (PA) is conducive of poor health outcomes and obesity during adolescence [1,2,3,4,5]
The aim of this study was to investigate the test–retest reliability of the motives for undertaking PA items from the Health Behavior in School-Aged Children (HBSC) study questionnaire among Slovak and Czech adolescents and to determine whether this reliability differs by gender and age group (11- and 15-year-olds) and country
The aim of the study was to investigate the test–retest reliability of the motives for PA items of the HBSC questionnaire in Czech and Slovak adolescents and to determine whether this reliability differs by gender, age group (11- and 15-year-olds) and country
Summary
Physical activity (PA) is associated with adolescent healthiness and a low amount of PA is conducive of poor health outcomes and obesity during adolescence [1,2,3,4,5]. Public Health 2020, 17, 7551; doi:10.3390/ijerph17207551 www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph
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