Turkish adaptation of the Physical Activity Readiness Questionare for Everyone (PAR-Q+)

Abstract

Introduction: The Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire for Everyone (PAR-Q+) is one of the tools suggested by the American College of Sports Medicine for health screening before initiating exercise. This study aimed to adapt the PAR-Q+ into Turkish.Methods: After the Turkish translation, the instrument was applied to a sufficient number of samples from the family medicine outpatient clinics. Simultaneously, socio-demographic features were collected from the participants. The data were evaluated using SPSS package program. Results: According to the test/retest analysis, the reliability of the instrument was significantly high (r = 0.87, p lt;0.001). Mean age ± standard deviation and body mass index of the participants were 48.0±16.1 and 27.9±5.9, respectively, with 58.6% (n=178) being males. Hypertension, diabetes, and smoking frequency were 32.2% (n=98), 26.0% (n=79), and 37.8% (n=115), respectively. Conclusion: The high proportion of medical conditions present among the participants suggests its need to be utilized by the community. This study has demonstrated safe usage of the Turkish adaptation of the PAR-Q+ instrument. We believe that this tool should become widely used by family physicians.

Keywords

• fiziksel aktivite
• geçerlilik çalışması
• aile hekimleri
• aile hekimliği
• çeviriler
• egzersiz
• anket ve ölçekler
• türkiye
• physical activity
• validation studies
• family physicians
• family practice
• translations
• exercise
• surveys and questionnaires
• turkey