Findings show that a possible reason of burnout among sport educators is the accumulated actual and perceived stress of sports educators (Wright, et al., 2023), even though the work of sports educators is related to physical activities.
A recently published systematic review highlighted that they faces high levels of stress, emphasizing the urgency of exploring and addressing the unique stressors and challenges faced by physical educators (Alsalhe, et al., 2021). Physical education teachers and coaches daily physical activity has been insufficiently studied.
But individuals who participate in moderate physical activity experience fewer complaints of sleep disorders and enjoy enhanced sleep quality (Sejbuk, et al.). Physical activity can be measured by a variety of methods, both objective and subjective, but one of the prerequisites for understanding the relationship between an active lifestyle and wellbeing is to be sure that the instrument measures what it is designed to measure and that it can be used in many countries.
The objective of the research is to investigate daily physical activity and to find out the correlations between measurement properties of sport educators’ self-reported physical activity indicators in the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ), International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ), European Health Interview Survey-Physical Activity Questionnaire (EHIS-PAQ) and Physical Activity Scale (PAS).

The research questions:
- What is the daily physical activity of sport educators?
- Is there a correlation between the measurement characteristics of sport educators’ self-reported physical activity indicators in in the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ), International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ), European Health Interview Survey-Physical Activity Questionnaire (EHIS-PAQ) and Physical Activity Scale (PAS)?

Methods: participants were 288 sport educators (age 22-53; 48,6% women and 51,4% men). The type, involvement and amount of physical activity was determined by the GPAQ, IPAQ, EHIS-PAQ, PAS adapted into Latvian. The research results showed that questionnaires allowed to determine the respondents’ physical activity indicators. Statistically significant correlations were determined between indicators obtained in all physical activity questionnaires applied in the research (p<0.05). The following methods were used in the research: the Latvian version of the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ) and Physical Activity Scale (PAS). Mathematical statistics (descriptive statistics, Cronbach’s coefficient alpha and the inferential statistics). The adaptation of the questionnaires the Latvian version of the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ) and Physical Activity Scale (PAS) took place in several stages (ITC, 2017). The forward-backward translation of the questionnaire was provided by professional English and Latvian philology specialists specializing in sport science. The questionnaire process and collection of respondents’ data took place anonymously, in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Human Rights.

The preliminary results have shown that indicators of internal coherence of the questionnaires on physical activity indicators (Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ) and Physical Activity Scale (PAS)) show a corresponding reliability of the translated Latvian version of the questionnaire. There are statistically significant correlations between the content indicators of all physical activity questionnaires. The preliminary results of this study indicate that PAS underestimates time spent in sedentary behaviour and overestimates time spent in light, moderate and vigorous activity.

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