For use with Young and Middle-Aged Adults (15-69 years)



This study aims to enhance existing scientific knowledge regarding aspects of lifestyle and physical activity, specifically in areas relating to dog ownership and geographical location.



This study has three aims:



1. To discover the Physical Activity (PA) level of people who own a dog and those who don’t, including those who might like to in the future.



2. To examine the PA of dog owners to see how much of their activity is related to their dog/s



3. To determine if the geographical location in which a dog owner lives has any effect on their PA with their dog.



It would be greatly appreciated if both dog owner’s and non-dog owner’s could spare a few minutes of their precious time filling in this questionnaire as this will greatly assist in the research findings.



For the first section of the questionnaire we are interested in finding out about the kinds of physical activities that people do as part of their everyday lives. The questions will ask you about the time you spent being physically active in the last 7 days. Please answer each question even if you do not consider yourself to be an active person. Please think about the activities you do at work, as part of your house and yard/gardening work, to get from place to place, and in your spare time for recreation, exercise or sport. Think about all the vigorous and moderate activities that you did in the last 7 days.



VIGOROUS PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES refer to activities that take hard physical effort and make you breathe much harder than normal.



MODERATE PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES refer to activities that take moderate physical effort and make you breathe somewhat harder than normal.



The last section of the questionnaire pertains specifically to dog ownership, please do however, consider any dog related activities you are involved in when answering the other parts of the questionnaire where relevant. Duplication of this information is fine.

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