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. 2020 Jan 10;20:5. doi: 10.1186/s12874-019-0893-7

Table 2.

Reliability analysis (test–retest) of the SAYCARE sedentary behavior questionnaire

Children (N=55) Week days Weekend days Total days
Q1 Q2 rho ka Q1 Q2 rho ka Q1 Q2 rho ka
 Total SB time (min/day) 66.1 (41.0 to 96.0) 58.5 (46.3 to 112.6) 0.45* 0.55** 200.0 (135.0 to 285.0) 180.0 (120.0 to 240.0) 0.51** 0.40* 110.5 (74.0 to 154.3) 120.0 (75.0 to 142.1) 0.70** 0.53**
 Meeting ≤120min/day (%) 85.8 75.9 0.52b, * 15.8 15.9 0.83b, * 42.2 47.7 0.63b, *
Adolescents (n=106) Week days Weekend days Total days
Q1 Q2 rho ka Q1 Q2 rho ka Q1 Q2 rho ka
 Total SB time (min/day) 102.0 (63.4 to 165.9) 54.7 (18.7 to 96.7) 0.39* 0.13 180.0 (96.4 to 260.0) 90.1 (18.8 to 186.0) 0.34** 0.27** 131.1 (97.1 to 178.2) 74.9 (27.4 to 127.0) 0.50** 0.28**
 Meeting ≤120min/day (%) 55.4 84.6 0.15b, * 31.8 84.5 0.08b, * 40.1 73.1 0.17b, *

Values are median (25th–75th percentile); k kappa agreement, Q1 Questionnaire first application, Q2 Questionnaire second application, rho Spearman correlation coefficient, SB sedentary behavior

Moderate (or above) values of spearman correlation (rho ≥ 0.30) and kappa agreement (k ≥ 0.40) are in bold

aweighted (quadratic) Cohen’s kappa-coefficient for quartiles comparison;

bCohen’s kappa coefficient for binary data;

*p ≤0.05

**p ≤0.01