Describing objectively measured intensive care nurses' physical work activity behavioural patterns during a 12-hr shift.

Aim And Objectives: To describe intensive care unit (ICU) nurses' physical work activity behavioural patterns over 12 hr using dual accelerometry, following a job demands-recovery framework.

Background: Limited studies utilised accelerometry to objectively analyse nurses' physical workloads. Little is known about intensive care nurses' physical activity patterns during a 12-hr shift.

Is point of care renal function testing reliable screening pre-IV contrast administration?

Purpose: Intravenous iodinated contrast is a commonly used diagnostic aid to improve image quality on computed tomography. There exists a small risk of post-contrast acute kidney injury in patients receiving IV contrast. One of the biggest risk factors for developing PC-AKI is the presence of pre-existing renal dysfunction, making it important to measure the renal function prior to contrast administration.

Physical activity and personal factors associated with nurse resilience in intensive care units.

Aim And Objectives: To assess intensive care nurses' resilience and identify associated personal factors and physical activity behaviours using a job demands-recovery framework.

Background: Currently, there is inconsistent evidence as to whether nurse resilience is associated with personal factors or with physical activity at work or during leisure time.

Design: A cross-sectional study was conducted with nurses from four intensive care units in Auckland, New Zealand.

Deprivation matters: understanding associations between neighbourhood deprivation, unhealthy food outlets, unhealthy dietary behaviours and child body size using structural equation modelling.

Background: Children residing in neighbourhoods of high deprivation are more likely to have poorer health, including excess body size. While the availability of unhealthy food outlets are increasingly considered important for excess child body size, less is known about how neighbourhood deprivation, unhealthy food outlets and unhealthy dietary behaviours are interlinked.

Methods: This study involves children aged 8-13 years (n=1029) and resided in Auckland, New Zealand.

Application of Raw Accelerometer Data and Machine-Learning Techniques to Characterize Human Movement Behavior: A Systematic Scoping Review.

Background: Application of machine learning for classifying human behavior is increasingly common as access to raw accelerometer data improves. The aims of this scoping review are (1) to examine if machine-learning techniques can accurately identify human activity behaviors from raw accelerometer data and (2) to summarize the practical implications of these machine-learning techniques for future work.

Methods: Keyword searches were performed in Scopus, Web of Science, and EBSCO databases in 2018.

A Dual-Accelerometer System for Detecting Human Movement in a Free-living Environment.

Purpose: Accurate measurement of various human movement behaviors is essential in developing 24-h movement profiles. A dual-accelerometer system recently showed promising results for accurately classifying a broad range of behaviors in a controlled laboratory environment. As a progressive step, the aim of this study is to validate the same dual-accelerometer system in semi free-living conditions in children and adults.

Children's Transport Built Environments: A Mixed Methods Study of Associations between Perceived and Objective Measures and Relationships with Parent Licence for Independent Mobility in Auckland, New Zealand.

Children's independent mobility is declining internationally. Parents are the gatekeepers of children's independent mobility. This mixed methods study investigates whether parent perceptions of the neighbourhood environment align with objective measures of the neighbourhood built environment, and how perceived and objective measures relate to parental licence for children's independent mobility.

Personal and work-related factors associated with nurse resilience: A systematic review.

Background: Nursing shortages have profoundly impacted hospitals and consequently increased financial expenditure, resulting in work overload, thus augmenting nurses' stress and burnout levels. Studies have found that resilience helps nurses reduce the effects of stress and burnout. However, the factors associated with nurse resilience are yet to be determined.

Visualising Combined Time Use Patterns of Children's Activities and Their Association with Weight Status and Neighbourhood Context.

Compositional data techniques are an emerging method in physical activity research. These techniques account for the complexities of, and interrelationships between, behaviours that occur throughout a day (e.g.

Physical activity, cognition and academic performance: an analysis of mediating and confounding relationships in primary school children.

Background: Exploring the relationship between physical activity, cognition and academic performance in children is an important but developing academic field. One of the key tasks for researchers is explaining how the three factors interact. The aim of this study was to develop and test a conceptual model that explains the associations among physical activity, cognition, academic performance, and potential mediating factors in children.

A Dual-Accelerometer System for Classifying Physical Activity in Children and Adults.

Introduction: Accurately monitoring 24-h movement behaviors is a vital step for progressing the time-use epidemiology field. Past accelerometer-based measurement protocols are either hindered by lack of wear time compliance, or the inability to accurately discern activities and postures. Recent work has indicated that skin-attached dual-accelerometers exhibit excellent 24-h uninterrupted wear time compliance.

Being barefoot. Prevalence at home, in school and during sport: a cross-sectional survey of 714 New Zealand secondary school boys.

Background: It may be assumed that a combination of culture, climate and economic resource are the major reasons that non-industrialised countries have a higher prevalence of barefoot activity. New Zealand is an industrialised country with comparable resources to that of many European countries; however, it seems to remain socially acceptable to carry out barefoot activities. A chance observation of students competing barefoot on a tartan track, prompted us to determine the prevalence of barefoot activity in an all-boys secondary school in Auckland New Zealand.

Wear-Time Compliance with a Dual-Accelerometer System for Capturing 24-h Behavioural Profiles in Children and Adults.

To advance the field of time-use epidemiology, a tool capable of monitoring 24 h movement behaviours including sleep, physical activity, and sedentary behaviour is needed. This study explores compliance with a novel dual-accelerometer system for capturing 24 h movement patterns in two free-living samples of children and adults. A total of 103 children aged 8 years and 83 adults aged 20-60 years were recruited.

Novel Nutrition Profiling of New Zealanders' Varied Eating Patterns.

There is increasing recognition that the relationship between nutrition and health is influenced by complex eating behaviors. The aims of this study were to develop novel nutrition profiles of New Zealanders and to describe the prevalence of these profiles. Observational, cross-sectional data from the Sovereign Wellbeing Index, 2014 was used to develop the profiles in an a-priori process.

Neighbourhoods for Active Kids: study protocol for a cross-sectional examination of neighbourhood features and children's physical activity, active travel, independent mobility and body size.

Introduction: New Zealand children's physical activity, including independent mobility and active travel, has declined markedly over recent decades. The Neighbourhoods for Active Kids (NfAK) study examines how neighbourhood built environments are associated with the independent mobility, active travel, physical activity and neighbourhood experiences of children aged 9-12 years in primary and intermediate schools across Auckland, New Zealand's largest city.

Methods And Analysis: Child-specific indices of walkability, destination accessibility and traffic exposure will be constructed to measure the built environment in 8 neighbourhoods in Auckland.

The Clustering of Lifestyle Behaviours in New Zealand and their Relationship with Optimal Wellbeing.

Purpose: The purpose of this research was to determine (1) associations between multiple lifestyle behaviours and optimal wellbeing and (2) the extent to which five lifestyle behaviours-sleep, physical activity, sedentary behaviour, sugary drink consumption, and fruit and vegetable intake-cluster in a national sample.

Method: A national sample of New Zealand adults participated in a web-based wellbeing survey. Five lifestyle behaviours-sleep, physical activity, sedentary behaviour, sugary drink consumption, and fruit and vegetable intake-were dichotomised into healthy (meets recommendations) and unhealthy (does not meet recommendations) categories.

Associations between lifestyle behaviours and optimal wellbeing in a diverse sample of New Zealand adults.

Background: In positive psychology optimal wellbeing is considered a broad, multi-dimensional construct encompassing both feelings and functioning. Yet, this notion of wellbeing has not been translated into public health. The purpose of this study is to integrate public health and positive psychology to determine associations between lifestyle behaviours and optimal wellbeing in a diverse sample of New Zealand adults.

Environmental and socio-demographic associates of children's active transport to school: a cross-sectional investigation from the URBAN Study.

Background: Active transport (e.g., walking, cycling) to school (ATS) can contribute to children's physical activity and health.

Comparison of Actical and activPAL measures of sedentary behaviour in preschool children.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the convergent validity of the Actical and activPAL to measure sedentary behaviour (SB) and non-SB in preschoolers in a free-living environment.

Design: A convenience sample of 49 preschoolers (22 boys; 4.0 ± 0.

Validation of self-report measures of physical activity: a case study using the New Zealand Physical Activity Questionnaire.

Accurate measurement of physical activity is fundamentally important in epidemiological research of physical activity behavior A widely used telephone-based physical activity questionnaire was compared with other methods of administration and objective measures (pedometers and accelerometers) among 80 adults (43 women). The telephone questionnaire was comparable to both the self-administered form and international telephone-administered equivalent. Although moderate correlation coefficients with objective measures supported the use of the questionnaire, wide prediction intervals generated using Bland Altman methods highlighted large discrepancies between the measures, particularly in the moderate intensity category.