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Outpatients with an acquired brain injury (ABI) experience physical, mental, and social deficits. ABI can be classified into two subgroups based on mechanism of injury: mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI; e.g., concussion) and other ABI (e.g., stroke, brain aneurysm, encephalitis). Our understanding of habitual activity levels within ABI populations is limited because they are often collected using self-report measures. The purpose of this study was to, 1) describe the habitual activity levels of outpatients with ABI using objective and self-report monitoring, and 2) compare the activity levels of outpatients with mTBI vs. other ABI. Sixteen outpatients with other ABI (mean ± standard deviation: [58 ± 13] years, 9 females) and 12 outpatients with mTBI ([48 ± 11] years, 9 females) wore a thigh-worn activPAL 24 h/day (h/day) for 7-days. Outpatients with ABI averaged (6.0 ± 2.3) h/day of upright time, (10.6 ± 2.2) h/day of sedentary time, (5.6 ± 2.7) h/day in prolonged sedentary bouts > 1 h, (5 960 ± 3 037) steps/day, and (11 ± 13) minutes/day (min/day) of moderate-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). There were no differences between activPAL-derived upright, sedentary, prolonged sedentary time, and physical activity between the mTBI and other ABI groups (all, p > 0.31). Outpatients with ABI overestimated their MVPA levels (+138 min/week) and underestimated sedentary time (−4.3 h/day) compared to self-report (all, p |
