Funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, this project aims to develop an app-based questionnaire and determine its accuracy in measuring physical activity among 5- to 17-year-olds in 14 low-, middle-, and high-income countries from 6 continents. Participating countries include: Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, India, Malawi, Mexico, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates. Our second objective is to collect data on active play for the first time in many of these countries. By collecting comparable data across countries, our project will facilitate the cross-fertilization of ideas to address the global physical activity “pandemic”.
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