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. 2014 Dec 5;14:1249. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1249

Table 3.

Test-retest reliability * of the Workplace Sitting Breaks Questionnaire (SITBRQ)

Questionnaire item Spearman’s rho (95% CI) Cohen’s kappa (95% CI) % correctly classified (95% CI) § % in same or adjacent category (95% CI) || % highly misclassified (95% CI)
Frequency of breaks (breaks/hour) 0.71 (0.59 - 0.79) 0.74 (0.64 - 0.84) 51.0 (41.0 - 61.0) 85.4 (78.4 - 92.5) 14.6 (7.5 - 21.6)
Total duration of breaks (minutes/day) 0.59 (0.45 - 0.71) 0.61 (0.38 - 0.85) 46.9 (36.9 - 56.9) 79.2 (71.0 - 87.3) 20.8 (12.7 - 29)

*Test and retest surveys were conducted a maximum of 14 days apart.

Spearman’s rank correlation between test and retest and its 95% confidence interval.

Quadratic weighted Cohen’s kappa coefficient of agreement between test and retest and its 95% confidence interval.

§Percent of participants classified in same categories in test and retest its 95% confidence interval.

||Percent of participants classified in same or adjacent categories in test and retest its 95% confidence interval.

Percent of participants classified in distant categories in test and retest (two or more categories apart) its 95% confidence interval.