The accuracy of self-reported smoking: a systematic review of the relationship between self-reported and cotinine-assessed smoking statusSarah Connor Gorber
Health Measures Analysis Section, Health Information and Research Division, Statistics Canada, 24th Floor R H Coats Building, 100 Tunney s Pasture Driveway, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A 0T6
Nicotine Tob Res 11:12-24. 2009
..Smoking is a leading cause of premature mortality and preventable morbidity. Surveillance is most often based on self-reported data, but studies have shown that self-reports tend to underestimate smoking status...
- The bias in self-reported obesity from 1976 to 2005: a Canada-US comparison
Sarah Connor Gorber
Health Measures Analysis Section, Health Information and Research Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Obesity (Silver Spring) 18:354-61. 2010
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The feasibility of establishing correction factors to adjust self-reported estimates of obesitySarah Connor Gorber
Health Information and Research Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa
Health Rep 19:71-82. 2008
..This study examines the feasibility of developing correction factors to adjust self-reported measures of body mass index (BMI) to more closely approximate measured values...
- Canadian Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines for the Early Years (aged 0-4 years)
Mark S Tremblay
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Appl Physiol Nutr Metab 37:370-91. 2012
..For those under 2 years, screen time (e.g., TV, computer, electronic games) is not recommended. For children 2-4 years, screen time should be limited to under 1 h per day; less is better...
- Obesity estimates for children based on parent-reported versus direct measures
Margot Shields
Health Analysis Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0T6
Health Rep 22:47-58. 2011
..Relatively few studies have examined the bias resulting from the use of parent-reported height and weight for children, and the findings have been inconsistent...
- Estimates of obesity based on self-report versus direct measures
Margot Shields
Health Information and Research Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Health Rep 19:61-76. 2008
..Based on a representative sample of the Canadian population, this article quantifies the bias resulting from the use of self-reported rather than directly measured height, weight and body mass index (BMI)...
- Bias in self-reported estimates of obesity in Canadian health surveys: an update on correction equations for adults
Margot Shields
Health Analysis Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0T6
Health Rep 22:35-45. 2011
..The feasibility of using correction equations to adjust self-reported 2008 Canadian Community Health Survey values to more closely approximate measured values is assessed...
Systematic review of sedentary behaviour and health indicators in school-aged children and youthMark S Tremblay
Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research, Children s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K1H 8L1, Canada
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 8:98. 2011
..In particular, the evidence suggests that daily TV viewing in excess of 2 hours is associated with reduced physical and psychosocial health, and that lowering sedentary time leads to reductions in BMI...
- Systematic review of sedentary behaviour and health indicators in the early years (aged 0-4 years)
Allana G LeBlanc
Children s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L1, Canada
Appl Physiol Nutr Metab 37:753-72. 2012
..This work may be used as evidence to inform public health guidelines. (PROSPERO registration: CRD4011001280.)...
- Fitness of Canadian adults: results from the 2007-2009 Canadian Health Measures Survey
Margot Shields
Health Analysis Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0T6
Health Rep 21:21-35. 2010
..However, a comprehensive assessment of fitness requires additional measures. This article provides up-to-date estimates of fitness levels of Canadians aged 20 to 69 years. Results are compared with estimates from 1981...
- Abdominal obesity and cardiovascular disease risk factors within body mass index categories
Margot Shields
Health Analysis Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0T6
Health Rep 23:7-15. 2012
..Recent evidence suggests that waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) are increasing within BMI categories. This shift may have affected the usefulness of abdominal obesity measures...
- Measures of abdominal obesity within body mass index categories, 1981 and 2007-2009
Margot Shields
Health Analysis Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0T6
Health Rep 23:33-8. 2012
..Although substantial percentages of men and women in obese class I were at increased/high health risk based on abdominal obesity measures in 1981, by 2007-2009, almost everyone in this BMI category was at increased/high risk...
- Canadian health measures survey: brief overview
Mark S Tremblay
Statistics Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Can J Public Health 98:453-6. 2007
..This paper provides a brief overview of the survey sampling, methodological, operational, logistical, ethical, legal and social issues and procedures related to the CHMS...
- Effects of measurement on obesity and morbidity
Margot Shields
Health Information and Research Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Health Rep 19:77-84. 2008
..The goal is to see if the misclassifications resulting from the use of self-reported data alters associations between excess body weight and these health conditions...
- Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines for the Early Years (aged 0-4 years)
Mark S Tremblay
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Appl Physiol Nutr Metab 37:345-69. 2012
..More daily physical activity provides greater benefits...
- Quality control and data reduction procedures for accelerometry-derived measures of physical activity
Rachel Colley
Children s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario
Health Rep 21:63-9. 2010
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- Actical accelerometer sedentary activity thresholds for adults
Suzy Lai Wong
Health Analysis Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Canada
J Phys Act Health 8:587-91. 2011
..Thus, the purpose of this study was to determine Actical accelerometer sedentary activity thresholds for adults...
- Desk potatoes: the importance of occupational physical activity on health
Adam W Probert
Physical Health Measures Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, ON
Can J Public Health 99:311-8. 2008
..To determine the relationship between occupational physical activity (OPA) and chronic disease after controlling for leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) and other risk factors...
- Eliciting Canadian population preferences for health states using the Classification and Measurement System of Functional Health (CLAMES)
Cameron N McIntosh
Health Analysis and Measurement Group, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0T6
Chronic Dis Can 28:29-41. 2007
..The function provides a convenient method of computing preference scores for any health state classified by CLAMES, without the need for direct measurement in surveys. Further, the SG appears feasible in group settings...
- Canadian Health Measures Survey: rationale, background and overview
Mark Tremblay
Physical Health Measures Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Health Rep 18:7-20. 2007
..This important and ambitious survey provides comprehensive and robust health information to advance health surveillance and research in Canada, while providing training opportunities to enhance research capacity...
