NCT03513341

Levels of Daily Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour in Maastricht University's Undergraduate First Year Students

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 335 (actual)
• Sponsor: Maastricht University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study explores the levels of daily physical activity and sedentary behaviour in Maastricht University's undergraduate first year students. Furthermore, this study explores the correlations between the students' demographical background information with their levels of physical activity and sedentary behaviour.

Detailed description

Participants are randomly recruited from the student population. The participants are invited to complete a demographics questionnaire, wear an ActivPAl accelerometer for 7 days, and complete daily diaries (modified International Physical Activity Questionnaire) throughout the 7 days.

Conditions

• Physical Activity
• Sedentary Lifestyle

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	No intervention	No intervention is given to the participants. This is an observational study exploring the students' levels of physical activity and sedentary behaviour in their natural setting.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-05-01
• Primary completion: 2018-07-31
• Completion: 2018-07-31
• First posted: 2018-05-01
• Last updated: 2019-08-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands