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Adapting Community Interventions for Different Cultures and Communities

  

Examples

  

Example: The International Physical Activity Questionnaire

From the website:

The public health burden of a sedentary lifestyle has been recognized globally, but until recently, the prevalence and impact of the problem has not been studied in a uniform and systematic fashion.  The questionnaire is the most feasible instrument for measuring physical activity in large groups or populations.  However, many of the existing instruments are not comparable in the type of activities surveyed (i.e., leisure-time activities only) and format for data collection. 

The purpose of the International Physical Activity Questionnaires (IPAQ) is to provide a set of well-developed instruments that can be used internationally to obtain comparable estimates of physical activity. There are two versions of the questionnaire.  The short version is suitable for use in national and regional surveillance systems and the long version provide more detailed information often required in research work or for evaluation purposes.

The IPAQ website contains downloadable questionnaires in 16 languages, scoring protocols, and information for cultural adaptation and translation of the instrument that is very relevant to community work. There is also an extensive resource of other publications that may be of interest.