Research Impact: The global action plan on physical activity (GAPPA) has a target to reduce physical inactivity by 10% in 2025 and by 15% in 2030. Health promotion activities that target individuals who are insufficiently […]
Tag: Kwok Ng
Publication: Social Learning among Transplant Event Volunteers
Research Impact: The success of sport events rely heavily on volunteers. In particular games with athletes with special needs, like those with organ transplants, the volunteers require training to be competent to support the athletes. […]
Publication: Vigorous physical activity in relation to family affluence: time trends in Europe & North America
Research Impact: There has been much debate about the cost to take part in out of school physical activity among adolescents. In this paper, the research team including Kwok Ng, examined the associations between family […]
IDC 2019 Research and Design Competition Winner: Digipack Pro–Revamping Social Interactions and Supporting Physical Activity
Research Impact: The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) recently launched a competition on Interactive Design and Children (IDC) that focused on the full-body interaction in reaction to decline of children’s health. One of the emphases […]
Editorial: EUJAPA as an open access journal – Kwok Ng
Research Impact Summary: Open access publishing is a current debate in scholarly work because it is designed to give opportunity for all people to read the published research. A recent BBC Radio 4 show dedicated […]
Publication: Test-retest reliability of survey items on ownership and use of physical activity trackers
Research Impact Summary: In 2016 the most popular Christmas present in the USA was the fitbit. These wearables measures physical activity and are designed for the consumer to use for various purposes depending the product […]
New Publication: Ethnic Disparities in Physical Activity among Adolescents in Israel
Research Impact: Everyone has the right to health promotion through physical activity, although this may not always be the case. In Israel, Jewish and Arab adolescents took part in the WHO Health Behaviour in School-aged […]
Publication: Test-retest reliability of adolescents’ self-reported physical activity item in two consecutive surveys
Research Impact: Measures of self-reported physical activity among adolescents are used frequently in public health. However, researchers have suggested the need for scrutiny in the validity of the measures. One type of validity is the […]
Publication: Comparisons in Screen-Time Behaviours among Adolescents with & without Long-Term Illnesses or Disabilities
Research Impact: The study of sedentary time is an important area of study among children with disabilities. In this study from the 2013/14 WHO Collaborative Cross-national Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Study, 15 countries […]
Publication: The Quantified Athlete- Associations of Wearables for High School Athletes
Research Impact: According to mashable.com, the fitbit app was top in the apple store downloaded list for the 2015 Christmas (https://mashable.com/2015/12/28/fitbit-wins-christmas/?europe=true). There has since been a surge of interest in commercial physical activity tracking devices for […]
