{"id":34849,"date":"2025-09-16T10:20:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ispah.tecology-hosting.co\/?p=34849"},"modified":"2025-09-19T03:30:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:30:52","slug":"the-around-the-clock-terminology-consortium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispah.tecology-hosting.co\/es_es\/the-around-the-clock-terminology-consortium\/","title":{"rendered":"The Around the Clock Terminology Consortium"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A global consensus on terminology to discuss the 24-hour cycle of physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

What is the Around the Clock Terminology Consortium?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep occupy most of the 24-hour cycle and are associated with a multitude of health outcomes. As this field of research rapidly increases, a key question emerges: what should we collectively call these behaviors? In September 2024, we established the Around the Clock Terminology Consortium (ACT-C) \u2013 an internationally representative group of researchers and key interest-holder organizations to develop a consensus in terminology for the 24-hour cycle of physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep (https:\/\/aroundtheclock.med.ubc.ca\/team\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do we need a consensus?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There is a looming \u201c24-hour Babel\u201d. In 2021, we highlighted that there were at least five separate terms used by researchers when referring to physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep collectively (e.g., movement behaviors<\/em>, physical behaviors<\/em>, or the 24-hour activity cycle<\/em>) (https:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/56\/7\/367.long<\/a>). As more scientists enter this field, the terminology is becoming increasingly inconsistent and confusing. The time is now to develop a consensus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Achieving consensus the right way<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

However, consensus statements are prone to bias (https:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/bjsports\/56\/6\/306.full.pdf<\/a>). For example, they are often male dominated, rely on a narrow definition of \u2018expert\u2019, lack representation from developing and lower income countries, and often do not conduct a review of the literature to identify the knowledge gaps. The lack of consideration for equity, diversity, and inclusion in previous consensus-building projects motivated ACT-C to pursue an inclusive, representative, and international consensus regarding terminology for physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep (See Figure 1<\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 1:<\/strong> Around the Clock Terminology Consortium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n