The #GAC_PAQ coordinating centre is happy to announce that data collection for the main study has been completed in India and Nigeria. In both countries, over 500 participants have completed the study. Across the 17 participating countries, we currently have around 5,500 participants.

I shall watch this with interest. There's no way to get 60% of kids actively travelling to school without disrupting current patterns of car-based mobility. This includes making all urban streets safer, not just those right outside schools
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The GAC-PAQ team had the pleasure of visiting Spain in May and providing several presentations on the project, look in the comments for all the presentations given!

📣 Introducing Nabestse Baruc Blas Miranda, our Project Coordinator for Mexico
Nabe is working towards a PhD in Public Health at the Center for Nutrition and Health Research @inspmx.bsky.social
His research interests include examining the relationship between environment and population health 1/2

📣 Introducing Dr. Leigh Vanderloo
Leigh is a member of the GAC-PAQ Steering Committee. Her work focuses on PA and movement behaviours in the early years, with an interest in finding ways to better support educators, caregivers, and systems to enable healthy movement beginning in childhood.

📣 Introducing Dr. Mark Tremblay
Mark is a co-prinicpal investigator on the GAC-PAQ project, he's published >700 scientific papers and book chapters in the areas of childhood obesity, physical activity measurement, exercise physiology, sedentary physiology, outdoor play and health surveillance.

Dr. Anuradha Khadilkar
A paediatrician with 25+ years in growth, nutrition and paediatric endocrinology. Has conducted many community-based studies in growth, nutrition and endocrine disorders in children and adolescents.

Dr. Chidvilas More, Ph.D. in Anthropology, has over 15 years of research experience with rural and tribal communities. His ability to connect effortlessly with people, build trust, and engage in their local language allows him to form meaningful bonds and truly understand their way of life.

This week’s spotlight for GAC-PAQ project: Dr. Tom Loney, full professor of public health and epidemiology in the College of Medicine at Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences. His research interests include physical activity and well-being within children and adults.

Dr. Diego Silva, Associate Professor at the Sports Center, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil, focuses on population studies in Physical Activity Epidemiology, leads the Brazil team in the GAC-PAQ project, and works to promote healthy, physically active children.

Dr. Javier Brazo-Sayavera, associate professor at the University Pablo de Olavide (Seville) and full invited professor with the Universidad de la República (Uruguay). Leads the Spanish team of the GAC-PAQ project, and research interests are physical activity and fitness in children and adolescents.

Check out this video for an overview of our project!! Learn more in just 2 minutes!

Are you wondering why kids are less active nowadays? Here's what we know...

- Most children do not meet the recommended amount of physical activity each day
- Physical activity tends to decline with age
- Use of electronics and computer use have increased, contributing to physical in-activity

Check out this infographic to learn more about accelerometers!

Wondering what is happening next?

The main study has begun!

Each country will recruit 500 children/adolescent and a parent or caregiver to...
i) Fill out our questionnaire twice, 8 days apart
ii) The child will wear an accelerometer during this time to measure their physical activity

📱 Our questionnaire will be in the form of an app that...
- Will be freely available to be used and tailored to different countries
- Is designed for smart phones and tablets with or without internet access

Check out what we have completed so far! Use the links below to access our updated systematic review and content validity paper!
Systematic Review: doi.org/10.1007/s402...
Content Validation: doi.org/10.1016/j.js...

Who are we? Here are the GAC-PAQ participating countries!

We currently have 16 participating countries for our project to ensure our app can be used in all regions of the world! We are collaborating with low, middle, and high-income countries from each continent!

NEW GLOBAL PHYSICAL ACTIVITY STUDY!

We are launching the Global Adolescent and Child Physical Activity Questionnaire (GAC-PAQ) project to develop the FIRST global tool that will measure all domains of physical activity!