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Descriptive Report

Accuracy of the ActivPAL and Fitbit Charge 2 in measuring step count in Cystic Fibrosis

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Pages 2962-2972 | Received 23 Mar 2020, Accepted 20 Jun 2021, Published online: 08 Aug 2021

Figures & data

Figure 1. ActivPAL and Fitbit Charge 2.

Figure 1. ActivPAL and Fitbit Charge 2.

Table 1. Overall % difference for ActivPAL and Fitbit Charge 2 across treadmill walking speeds and self-selected walking speeds.

Table 2. Summary of ActivPAL, Fitbit Charge 2 and Observer Count for steps across all speeds.

Table 3. Mean Absolute Difference and % difference in steps between ActivPAL and Fitbit Charge 2 when compared to observer step count – treadmill walking and self-selected speeds.

Table 4. Pearson correlation co-efficients for the AP with the FC2 when compared to observer step count for both treadmill walking and self-selected speeds (r and p values).

Figure 2. Bland Altman plot comparing average steps for the Observer step count and ActivPAL at 2mph. Solid line indicates the mean difference between the two measures, dashed lines indicate the limits of agreement (1.96 SDs of the mean difference).

Figure 2. Bland Altman plot comparing average steps for the Observer step count and ActivPAL at 2mph. Solid line indicates the mean difference between the two measures, dashed lines indicate the limits of agreement (1.96 SDs of the mean difference).

Figure 3. Bland Altman plot comparing average steps for the Observer step count and Fitbit at 2mph. Solid line indicates the mean difference between the two measures, dashed lines indicate the limits of agreement (1.96 SDs of the mean difference).

Figure 3. Bland Altman plot comparing average steps for the Observer step count and Fitbit at 2mph. Solid line indicates the mean difference between the two measures, dashed lines indicate the limits of agreement (1.96 SDs of the mean difference).