Youth Leisure-Time Sedentary Behavior Questionnaire (YLSBQ): Reliability and Validity in Colombian University Students

Miguel Alejandro Atencio-Osorio, Hugo Alejandro Carrillo-Arango, María Correa-Rodríguez, Diego Rivera, José Castro-Piñero and Robinson Ramírez-Vélez
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Miguel Alejandro Atencio-Osorio: Grupo de Investigación en Deporte de Rendimiento (GRINDER), Programa de Educación Física y Deporte, Universidad del Valle, Santiago de Cali 76001, Colombia
Hugo Alejandro Carrillo-Arango: Grupo de Investigación en Deporte de Rendimiento (GRINDER), Programa de Educación Física y Deporte, Universidad del Valle, Santiago de Cali 76001, Colombia
María Correa-Rodríguez: Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria Granada (IBIS Granada), Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Granada (UGR), 18001 Granada, Spain
Diego Rivera: Department of Health Sciences, Public University of Navarre, 31000 Navarra, Spain
José Castro-Piñero: GALENO Research Group, Department of Physical Education, Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Cádiz, 11510 Puerto Real, Spain
Robinson Ramírez-Vélez: Department of Health Sciences, Public University of Navarre, Navarrabiomed, CIBER of Frailty and Healthy Aging (CIBERFES), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Pamplona, 31000 Navarra, Spain

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 15, 1-10

Abstract: Sedentary behavior (SB) is influenced by variations in social, cultural and economic contexts. This study assesses the test–retest reliability and validity of the Youth Leisure-time Sedentary Behavior Questionnaire (YLSBQ), a self-report tool that examines total and domain-specific SB in a cohort of young adults from Colombia. A cross-sectional validation study was conducted among 447 Colombian college students (52.8% men; mean (± standard deviation) age of 19.55 ± 2.54 years). To assess the reliability of the YLSBQ, Kappa statistics (k) were used. A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted to determine validity. The Cronbach alpha for the 12 behaviors of the YLSBQ showed a good-to-excellent internal consistency (0.867, ranging from 0.715–0.935). Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) indicated that 10 items (83.0%) and two items (17.0%) showed excellent and good reliability, respectively. Furthermore, ICC between the total sedentary time was 0.926 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.912 ? 0.939), which was interpreted as excellent. The goodness-of-fit tests provided evidence that overall, a four-factor solution was an adequate fit with the time scores. In conclusion, the YLSBQ could be considered a reliable, valid and usable tool for the assessment of SB in young adults in a Latin American country. We found that the psychometric properties of the questionnaire were similar to those of the original Spanish validation study.

Keywords: sedentary; screen time; reliability; validity; questionnaire; young adults; Latin American (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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