maes_2020_ospaq

1,537 responses from 385 respondents to 4 items.

About this table

DescriptionOccupational Sitting and Physical Activity Questionnaire (OSPAQ), 4 items asking the percentage of work time spent sitting, standing, walking and on heavy physical tasks; 385 Belgian office workers.
ReferenceMaes I, Ketels M, Van Dyck D, Clays E. 2020. The occupational sitting and physical activity questionnaire (OSPAQ): a validation study with accelerometer-assessed measures in Belgian office workers. BMC Public Health 20:1072.
DOI10.1186/s12889-020-09180-9
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Source datahttps://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-020-09180-9#Sec24

Size and shape

Responses1,537
Respondents385
Items4
Response categories54
Responses per respondent3.992
Responses per item384.250
Density0.998
LongitudinalFALSE

Classification

sampleWorkplace
measurement toolSurvey/questionnaire
item formatSlider/continuous
primary language(s)dut

Item text

This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.

InstrumentOccupational Sitting and Physical Activity Questionnaire (OSPAQ)
Mean words per item1.652
Mean characters per item12.275
Mean characters per response2
Flesch-Kincaid grade level98.483

Codebook

This codebook is reconstructed by the IRW from the IRW data standard and the script that built it, maes_2020_ospaq.py. It is our best reading, not the source’s own codebook, and it may contain mistakes. Where the two disagree, the source data are the authority. If you find an error, please tell us.

ColumnWhat it isSource column
IRW standard columns
idIRW standard Identifier for the focal unit being measured — typically a person, but sometimes another entity (e.g., a word in a lexical task).made in the build script
itemIRW standard Item identifier.made in the build script
respIRW standard Response value.made in the build script
Respondent covariates
cov_accel_mvpaCovariate Accelerometers (% MVPA)
cov_accel_sittingCovariate Accelerometers (% sitting)
cov_accel_standingCovariate Accelerometers (% standing)
cov_accel_walkingCovariate Accelerometers (% walking)
cov_job_typeCovariate Job type (1= physical active job; 2= sedentary job)

What item codes and covariate values stand for is in the codebook released with the source data.

Get the data

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Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("maes_2020_ospaq")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("maes_2020_ospaq")

How to cite

@article{Maes_2020, title={The occupational sitting and physical activity questionnaire (OSPAQ): a validation study with accelerometer-assessed measures}, volume={20}, ISSN={1471-2458}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09180-9}, DOI={10.1186/s12889-020-09180-9}, number={1}, journal={BMC Public Health}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={Maes, Iris and Ketels, Margo and Van Dyck, Delfien and Clays, Els}, year={2020}, month=July }

Version and provenance

IRW versionv566
Redivis datasetitem_response_warehouse_6 v5.11
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/qahq-j855
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv5.11
Metadata sourceirw_meta v43.0