Validity and Reliability of the Polar M200 Activity Monitor (VAPO)

Hasselt University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fitness Trackers; Healthy Persons

Treatments: Device: Polar M200

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05077995

VAPO-UH

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study will be to investigate the validity of a consumer available activity tracker (Polar M200) in free-living conditions to measure sedentary time.

Full description

The aim of the present study is to evaluate the validity from a commercially available wearable Polar device. Consumer-based activity trackers are generally cheaper, designed for long-term wear and are less intrusive. Potentially, consumer-based activity trackers can be used for research purposes, but high-quality validation studies are needed. The aims of this study will be to assess validity of sedentary outcome measures of a Polar device during free-living conditions in comparison with the ActivPAL3TM activity monitor (AP; PAL Technologies Ltd, Glasgow, UK), which is considered the gold standard to measure sedentary time in free-living conditions.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy adults

Exclusion criteria

• /

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 1 patient group

Healthy adult group

Experimental group

Description:

Sixty healthy adults, aged 18-65 years, will be included following written informed consent.

Treatment:

Device: Polar M200