THE WHAT

Include The Feeling Scale within the physical activity measures. The Feeling Scale is a single-item measure that assess how people feel WHILE they are active (from displeasure to pleasure), referred to as "affective valance."

While this scale has been validated for use during exercise, there's research and face validity reasons to support its use in global or session retrospective recall.

THE WHY

Affective valence  refers to a displeasure-pleasure continuum. Research suggests affective valence while exercising influences people's exercise participation.

The next-generation behavioral science on motivating exercise participation is centrally focused on investigating how people feel DURING exercise and creating interventions to cultivate more positive feelings while exercising.

The reason this line of research is now becoming the norm is because research suggests that affective valence is important to future decisions to exercise.

In addition, this assessment creates a great opportunity for patient counseling (and redirection if needed) based on their response to assessment.

SEE

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5718347/

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lD_fJr4AAAAJ&hl=en