The activPAL™ has been used extensively by researchers worldwide to investigate the correlation between physical behaviour and disease risk and presentation across all age groups featuring in thousands of peer-reviewed journal articles and conference presentations.
Browse below a selection of articles where the activPAL has been used.
August 2026 Shibuya, Mitsutaka; Harada, Kazuhiro; Uguisu, Haruo; Hirashima, Kenichi Cureus Background and objective: The activPAL monitor (PAL Technologies, Glasgow, UK) is widely used to assess posture, stepping activity, sit-to-stand transitions, and sedentary behavior. However, estimates derived from the same activPAL recording may vary according to the minimum-duration settings applied during data processing. Such processing-related…
Boonstra, Willeke; van Dongen, Johanna M.; Ostelo, Raymond W. J. G.; van der Ploeg, Hidde P.; Kempen, Diederik H. R.; van Nassau, Femke; Schipholt, Ivo J. Lutke; Aydin, Ömrüm; de Boer, Maarten; Broulikova, Hana; Coenen, Pieter; Coppieters, Michiel W.; Delawi, Diyar; van der Ende, Barry; Geuze, Ruth; Graat, Harm; Hoogendoorn, Roel; Kitzen, Joep; Nicolaou, Mary;…
Schootemeijer, Sabine; Kroesen, Sophie H.; Stens, Niels A.; Netten, Milou; Salzmann, Inge P.; Koster, Annemarie; Allard, Neeltje A. E.; Bakel, Bram M. A. van; Ortega, Francisco B.; Stamatakis, Emmanuel; Ahmadi, Matthew; Vrijsen, Janna N.; Thijssen, Dick; Eijsvogels, Thijs M. H.; Bakker, Esmée A.; Collaborators, the STEP COACH Pre-print Background and Aims: Steps are increasingly used…
Sallés, Laia; Bort-Roig, Judit; Vilafranca-Cartagena, Mireia; Farrés-Godayol, Pau; Tàrrega, Salomé; Bravo, Cristina; Puig-Ribera, Anna; Jabardo-Camprubí, Guillem BMC Public Health Introduction: Prolonged sedentary behaviour (SB) among university students is a growing concern, yet its impact on mental wellbeing (MWB) cannot be fully understood without considering its embodied nature: how it is experienced through the body in…
July 2026 Potter, Katie; Martini, Douglas N.; Sands, Colleen J.; Falck, Ryan S.; Nagarajan, Rajakumar PeerJ Background Dog ownership may benefit brain and cognitive health by supporting physical activity and social connectedness, among other mechanisms. Studies that include brain health outcomes (e.g., neuroimaging outcomes) are lacking. As the population ages, studies investigating whether and how…
Mascia, Guido; Houston, Denise K.; Fanning, Jason; Miller, Michael E.; McGinnis, Ryan S. IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks 2026 Constructs of functional performance such as typical walking speed and the ability to perform sit-to-stands (SI-ST) can be assessed in laboratory settings via the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB). However, the SPPB is often…
Courtney, Jimikaye B.; Bobashev, Georgiy V. Preprint Background: Alcohol use impacts sleep; however, sleep is also impacted by other 24-hour movement behaviors, including sedentary behavior (SB) and physical activity (PA). This study used compositional data analysis (CoDA) to simultaneously account for SB and PA and investigate within- and between-person associations between sleep and alcohol use…
Keatley, Jay; Nguyen, Nga; Dempsey, Paddy C.; Verswijveren, Simone J. J. M.; Bassett, Julie K.; Milne, Roger L.; Lynch, Brigid M. Preprint Objectives: To describe device-measured movement behaviours in a large sample of middle-aged and older Australian adults using complementary posture- and intensity-based accelerometers, examine variation across demographic groups, and identify behavioural phenotypes using clustering…
Lyden, Kate; Speirs, Craig; Granat, Malcolm H.; Clarke-Cornwell, Alexandra M. Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour Background: Physical activity, especially walking, is crucial for health, with step count recommendations often used to assess activity levels. This study aimed to characterize the free-living stepping behavior of middle- to older-aged adults, focusing on day-to-day step count…