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Table 3 Life space mobility and activity participation of study participants in one weeka

From: The development and validation of a prototype mobility tracker for assessing the life space mobility and activity participation of older adults

Measure of life space extent (N = 33)

Data source

Mean (SD)/ Median (range)

Max Euclid per day (km), median (range)

Mobility tracker

2.44 (0.26–7.50)

MCP area per day (km2), median (range)

Mobility tracker

3.31 (0.03–34.23)

UAB-LSA total score (maximum score 120), mean (SD)

Questionnaire

79.1 (17.4)

Activity participation (N = 33)

Data source

Mean (SD)/ Median (range)

Total number of activity nodes per week, median (range)

Mobility tracker

20 (8–47)

Total number of activities per week, median (range)

Travel diary

15 (6–40)

Average time spent per activity node (minutes), median (range)

Mobility tracker

46.59 (26.20–259.00)

  1. a Data is reported as mean (SD) if normally distributed, and median (range) if not normally distributed, based on the Shapiro-Wilk test. Legend: MCP Area Area of the minimum convex polygon around all GPS waypoints, Max Euclid Maximum Euclidean distance from home, UAB-LSA University of Alabama at Birmingham Study of Aging Life Space Assessment