Download or read book A Pedometer based Intervention to Increase Physical Activity written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of U.S. adults perform insufficient amounts of physical activity to prevent disease and maintain fitness. National recommendations prescribe fixed physical activity goals (e.g. 10,000 steps per day) that may fall outside of an individual's current physical activity repertoire. Prescribing smaller, more adaptive goals based on participant past behavior may be more efficacious at increasing physical activity to the target level. This study tested a pedometer-based intervention that prescribed adaptive goals and rewarded behavior using a percentile schedule of reinforcement. Five individuals enrolled into the intervention and were evaluated with a single-case withdrawal (ABA) design over 10 weeks. The six-week intervention consisted of one-time educational materials, daily adaptive goals, and contingent financial rewards administered on a percentile schedule. Daily goals were determined by ranking a participant's prior 9 days of physical activity (i.e. step counts) and selecting the 40th percentile of the distribution on a moving basis. A Lifecorder Plus, combined accelerometer and pedometer, measured moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) minutes per day and steps per day simultaneously. Visual analyses and multilevel statistical models for longitudinal data tested for change across phases. Based on visual analysis, four of the five women increased their median number of steps/day, and all five increased their median MVPA minutes/day. Participants increased their activity by 851 steps/day (range -829 to 2,450 steps) or approximately 5,957 steps per week, and 3.34 MVPA minutes/day (range 1.93 to 17.27 minutes) or approximately 23.38 MVPA minutes per week from baseline to the intervention phase. After adjusting for wear time and day of the week, the multilevel model detected a significant increase of 551.21 steps/day (SE = 258.26, p = .03) and 2.65 MVPA minutes/day (SE =1.09, p = .02) during the intervention phase compared to the baseline phase. This study provides a formal test of percentile schedules for physical activity research and provided intervention efficacy (i.e., 'proof of concept'). The findings may be used as a preliminary study to inform future work in this line of research.
Download or read book A Pedometer based Intervention to Increase Physical Activity written by Marc Anthony Adams and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of U.S. adults perform insufficient amounts of physical activity to prevent disease and maintain fitness. National recommendations prescribe fixed physical activity goals (e.g. 10,000 steps per day) that may fall outside of an individual's current physical activity repertoire. Prescribing smaller, more adaptive goals based on participant past behavior may be more efficacious at increasing physical activity to the target level. This study tested a pedometer-based intervention that prescribed adaptive goals and rewarded behavior using a percentile schedule of reinforcement. Five individuals enrolled into the intervention and were evaluated with a single-case withdrawal (ABA) design over 10 weeks. The six-week intervention consisted of one-time educational materials, daily adaptive goals, and contingent financial rewards administered on a percentile schedule. Daily goals were determined by ranking a participant's prior 9 days of physical activity (i.e. step counts) and selecting the 40th percentile of the distribution on a moving basis. A Lifecorder Plus, combined accelerometer and pedometer, measured moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) minutes per day and steps per day simultaneously. Visual analyses and multilevel statistical models for longitudinal data tested for change across phases. Based on visual analysis, four of the five women increased their median number of steps/day, and all five increased their median MVPA minutes/day. Participants increased their activity by 851 steps/day (range -829 to 2,450 steps) or approximately 5,957 steps per week, and 3.34 MVPA minutes/day (range 1.93 to 17.27 minutes) or approximately 23.38 MVPA minutes per week from baseline to the intervention phase. After adjusting for wear time and day of the week, the multilevel model detected a significant increase of 551.21 steps/day (SE = 258.26, p = .03) and 2.65 MVPA minutes/day (SE =1.09, p = .02) during the intervention phase compared to the baseline phase. This study provides a formal test of percentile schedules for physical activity research and provided intervention efficacy (i.e., 'proof of concept'). The findings may be used as a preliminary study to inform future work in this line of research.
Download or read book Global Action Plan on Physical Activity 2018 2030 written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regular physical activity is proven to help prevent and treat noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease stroke diabetes and breast and colon cancer. It also helps to prevent hypertension overweight and obesity and can improve mental health quality of life and well-being. In addition to the multiple health benefits of physical activity societies that are more active can generate additional returns on investment including a reduced use of fossil fuels cleaner air and less congested safer roads. These outcomes are interconnected with achieving the shared goals political priorities and ambition of the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030. The new WHO global action plan to promote physical activity responds to the requests by countries for updated guidance and a framework of effective and feasible policy actions to increase physical activity at all levels. It also responds to requests for global leadership and stronger regional and national coordination and the need for a whole-of-society response to achieve a paradigm shift in both supporting and valuing all people being regularly active according to ability and across the life course. The action plan was developed through a worldwide consultation process involving governments and key stakeholders across multiple sectors including health sports transport urban design civil society academia and the private sector.
Download or read book Increasing Ambulatory Physical Activity in Sedentary Women Using a Minimal contact Pedometer based Intervention written by Mandy Diane Qualls and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Outcome Measures for Health Education and Other Health Care Interventions written by Kate Lorig and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1996-04-18 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Outcome Measurement has become an important tool in the evaluation of health promotion patient education and other health services interventions, problems remain in locating reliable measurements and scales. This book provides a unique compilation of more than 50 self-administered scales for measuring health behaviors, health status, self-efficacy, and health-care utilization.
Download or read book What Evidence Exists to Describe the Effect of Interventions that Use Pedometers to Reduce Risk for and Manage Chronic Disease written by Sara Khangura and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Step it Up ECU written by Emily DiNatale and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedometers have been shown to be valid and effective tools for increasing physical activity, which is associated with improved overall health. While most research encourages participants to achieve 10,000 steps per day, there is little research conducted on the effectiveness of other types of step goals. The purpose of the present pilot study was to compare the effectiveness of a 10,000 step-a-day goal versus a small, relative, participant-selected step goal. Participants (N = 37) were primarily female (97%), obese (BMI M = 32.67, SD = 4.60), middle-aged (M = 43.49, SD = 9.14), borderline sedentary (M = 5497 steps/day, SD = 2964), Caucasian (59%) and African American (41%), university employees. Participants were randomly assigned to either a: 1) 10,000 daily step goal or b) small changes relative step goal (typically a 2,500-3,000 total step increase). Participants then engaged in weekly 15-minute sessions over a 12 week period. Seven meetings were face-to-face and 5 were conducted via phone. Seventy-three percent of participants completed the study. Measures were given to assess depression, life satisfaction, and cognitive and behavioral self-management strategies. A repeated-measures ANOVA showed a significant main effect of time on step counts (p
Download or read book Manpo Kei written by Catrine Tudor-Locke and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world does not need another "how to exercise" book. And this is exactly what this book is not about. Written in a refreshingly humorous and compassionate by the creator of the First Step Program™, the only scientifically proven pedometer-based physical activity intervention, Manpo-Kei™: The Art and Science of Step Counting presents the appealing rationale and the simplistic methods for taking back our naturally active lifestyles using a simple and inexpensive pedometer. The title of the revolutionary little book is a reflection of the Japanese 30-year experience with personal pedometers and lifestyle activity. Nicknamed "manpo-kei" which literally means "10,000 steps meter" in Japanese, the devices were imported to America in the mid-1990's by scientists who used them to determine daily activity levels in research studies. The power that these little instruments have to motivate individuals to increase their activity is just now being acknowledged by these same scientists... it is now time to let the public in on the secret. The author of this book holds nothing back while providing a workbook style content that gently guides the reader through the Manpo-kei™ program of self-monitoring, goal-setting, and personal feedback processes. The author also gives away handy tools including a pedometer shopping list (what to look for), activity logs, and personal feedback worksheets.
Download or read book Pedometer Power written by Robert P. Pangrazi and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Pedometer Power: Using Pedometers in School and Community, you can -use 65 pedometer-based activities for children and adults at home and in physical education, recreation, and after-school settings; -promote physical activity—and your program—to parents and the larger community with take-home and special-event activities; and -help participants learn about the importance of duration and intensity of physical activity and about the value of maintaining an active lifestyle. The best-selling Pedometer Power is back—updated and expanded with 65 thoroughly field-tested and exciting pedometer activities to motivate participants to become more physically active. This edition includes new and improved activities, more activities for high school and college students, an emphasis on using pedometers both in school and community settings, and updated data that clearly support the effectiveness of pedometers in monitoring physical activity. You can use Pedometer Power in a variety of settings, including physical education classes from kindergarten though college, after-school programs, recreation programs, and health-promotion programs. In doing so, you can accomplish these objectives: -Provide tips, strategies, and activities that have been refined by years of development and testing by one of the leading physical education research teams. -Ensure that students and participants will be successful and find the activities fun and motivating. -Help students and participants accurately gauge both the length and intensity of their activity. -Teach, promote, and assess physical activity, based on the cutting-edge research of the authors. -Motivate students and participants about the value of maintaining an active lifestyle. Pedometer Power provides information on how to use and store the devices, minimize breakage and loss, record and store data, promote physical activity, raise funds, and involve parents, teachers, and administrators. You'll also find fresh, ready-to-use ideas accompanied by diagrams, photos, and time-saving record sheets for students and participants. In short, Pedometer Power contains everything you need to start and manage an ongoing pedometer program.
Download or read book The Effects of a Pedometer Based Educational Intervention on Medical Students Physical Activity and Their Intentions to Promote Physical Activity in Future Practice written by Philip Aenous Cooke and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What evidence exists to describe the effect of interventions that use pedometers to reduce risk for and manage chronic disease written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: September 2010 KTA Evidence Summary: Pedometer-based Interventions to Reduce Risk for and Manage Chronic Disease Background Contents i. Overview of the evidence on pedometers and chronic disease Despite a wealth of evidence supporting physical activity for the prevention and management of dozens of chronic illnesses3, most Canadians do not ii. [...] A 2006 effectiveness review and public • There are multiple, complex factors in health guidance report by the National determining the effect, impact and role of Institute for Health and Clinical pedometers for increasing physical Excellence (NICE) addresses the use of activity with a goal of reducing risk for pedometers in public health; the Institute and managing chronic disease; concludes that [...] A 2010 U. S. study randomized 18 chronic outpatients to a 12-week pedometer-based disease patients to wear either a pedometer or exercise counseling intervention or usual care; accelerometer to measure steps/day or results from 35 patients showed a significant moderate-vigorous physical activity (MVPA); increase in walking activity, strength measures results for 18 patients at 4 weeks showed a and [...] A 2009 commentary questions the validity of significant; authors conclude that "The pedometers for measurement of physical additional lifestyle physical activity activity in patients with COPD; the author counseling program with feedback of a summarizes a study that finds pedometers can pedometer showed a clinically relevant produce invalid results in COPD patients that increase in steps/day, alth [...] A 2010 U. S. study randomized 53 type 2 pedometer-based component of a group- diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients to a self- counseling intervention to increase physical management program with or without a activity for 74 patients at high risk of T2DM; pedometer; results from 33 participants show results showed a significant increase in that while both groups significantly decreased physical activi.
Download or read book The Cape Town Commitment A Confession of Faith A Call to Action written by Darrell L. Bock and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cape Town Commitment, which arose from The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010), stands in the historic line of The Lausanne Covenant (1974) and The Manila Manifesto (1989). It has been translated into twenty-five languages and has commanded wide acceptance around the world. The Commitment is set in two parts. Part 1 is a Confession of Faith, crafted in the language of covenantal love. Part 2 is a Call to Action. The local church, mission agencies, special-interest groups, and Christians in the professions are all urged to find their place in its outworking. This annotated bibliography of The Cape Town Commitment, arranged by topic, has been compiled by specialists in a range of fields. As such, it is the first bibliography of its kind. Arranged in sections for graduate-level teaching Equally useful for research students
Download or read book Weight Control and Physical Activity written by Harri Vainio and published by IARC. This book was released on 2002 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avoiding overweight and obesity is the best-established diet-related risk factor for cancer. The proportion of people who are overweight/obese is increasing, and the amount of physical activity is decreasing in most populations, including urban populations in many developing countries. The increasing prevalence of overweight/obesity is presumably due to the increasing availability of highly palatable, high-energy foods, and an increasing sedentary lifestyle due to mechanisation of both workplace and leisure activities. Overweight/obesity and reduced physical activity increases the risk of cancers in various organs. Maintaining a healthy body weight and regular physical activity is the second most important way to prevent cancer, after tobacco control. The suggestions of possible public health actions to tackle these risk factors include the promotion of balanced diets, which are not excessive in energy, and broad education and planning to enable and encourage physical activity during work and leisure. Recommendations and a full discussion of these topics are included in the sixth volume in this series of Handbooks.
Download or read book A Pedometer and Peer Education Intervention to Increase Physical Activity Levels of Sedentary College Students written by Mary E. Knapp and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Physician Interventions Combined with a Pedometer driven Walking Program to Increase Physical Activity written by Emily Burton Decker and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study compared the effect of physical activity on sedentary, overweight adult women, following advice given from an OB-GYN physician to women who receive the same advice coupled with a pedometer. Thirty-nine participants' were evaluated for stage of change, exercise self-efficacy score, 7-day PAR, BMI, RHR, RBP, and a 6-min walk at 3 time periods. The physicians' health promotion practices were also evaluated. The results of the study indicate that the pedometer was helpful, but was not statistically significant. Both groups increased their stage of change by about 30%. The pedometer group had an effect size of > 0.5 at 2 time periods in the number of steps/day. The pedometer group increased nearly 2.5 times more in min/week of exercise. These findings indicate that that the pedometer could improve the effect of a physician's advice to exercise.
Download or read book Pedometer Intervention to Increase Physical Activity of Patients Entering a Maintenance Cardiac Rehabilitation Program written by Jason L. Jones and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Feasibility of Using Pedometer driven Walking to Promote Physical Activity and Improve Health related Quality of Life Among Meat Processing Workers written by Suliman Ali Almansi and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
