Table 7.
Summary of concurrent validity of GPAQ with PA log and IPAQ in various countries.
| Country (1st Author, Year) |
Sample Size | Criterion Measures | GPAQ Measures | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sitting | MPA | VPA | MVPA | |||
| China (Hu et al. 2015 [11]) | 205 aged 30–70 years, 38.54% of males | PA log | r = 0.52 ** |
r = 0.47 **; 0.43 ** (MPA excluding walking) |
r = 0.41 ** | r = 0.51 ** |
| India (Misra et al. 2014 [36]) | 262 aged 15–65 years, 116 males (49.6%) | IPAQ | r = 0.999 *** | r = 0.894 *** | r = 0.934 *** | r = 0.939 *** |
| Malaysia (Lingesh et al. 2016 [9]) | 43 female nurses aged 24 to 55 years (44.48 ± 8.38 years) |
PA Log | r = −0.015 | |||
| IPAQ | r = 0.214 | |||||
| Malaysia (Soo et al. 2015 [37]) | 100 aged 20–58 years | IPAQ | r = 0.447 *** | r = 0.459 *** | r = 0.466 *** | r = 0.309 ** |
| Vietnam (Thuy et al. 2010 [22]) | 251 (120 men and 118 women) | PA Log | r = 0.49 (men), −0.05 (women) | |||
| IPAQ | r = 0.39 (men), 0.18 (women) | |||||
| By work pattern: 146 with stable and 92 with unstable work patterns | PA Log | r = 0.31 (stable) | ||||
| IPAQ | r = 0.32 (stable) | |||||
| Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Portugal, and South Africa (Bull et al. 2009 [1]) | 2657 male and female adults from nine countries; n = 1951 for criterion validity | IPAQ | r = 0.65 **; poor agreement in categorizing inactive time, agreement = 85.2%, k = 0.22 | r = 0.45 ** | r = 0.57 ** | r = 0.54 ** |
Note: ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001; MVPA = moderate-to-vigorous physical activity; MPA = moderate physical activity; VPA = vigorous physical activity.