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 The Effects of a Pedometer Intervention on the Physical Activity Patterns of Cardiac Rehabilitation Participants written by Michael Faine Shipe and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purpose: To assess whether the provision of a pedometer and exercise diary could significantly increase the activity levels of phase II cardiac rehabilitation program patients on the days they did not attend the program. Methods: Seventy patients (53 males, 17 females, age of 68 plus/minus 9 yrs, BMI 29.0 plus/minus 6.1 kg/m2 participated in the study. During their first visit to a phase II CRP, patients were assigned to one of two groups. Control patients were given a blinded pedometer (n = 34), while experimental subjects received a pedometer that they could view (n = 36) as well as an exercise diary to record their daily step counts. Control patients wore the pedometer during all of their waking hours throughout phase II CRP enrollment and were encouraged to increase their overall activity levels in accordance with standard level of care. The baseline activity patterns of were determined during their first week of phase II CRP enrollment. Patients in the experimental group were encouraged to gradually increase their step counts on the days (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday; i.e., non-CRP days) they did not attend phase II CRP gradually until they were accumulating 2,000 steps/day above their baseline levels. Two sample t-tests were used to compare the baseline physical characteristics between genders as well as the control and experimental groups. Mean weekly step counts for both groups were compared based on overall and aerobic steps counts accumulated on CRP and non-CRP days using 2 times 7 repeated-measures ANOVAs. Results: At baseline, men took more overall steps than women and all patients took more steps on days they attended the phase II CRP, versus days they did not. There was a significant effect (p
Download or read book The Effectiveness of a Pedometer Feedback Intervention for Increasing Physical Activity in Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients written by Jenna L. Heckman and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sustaining physical activity following cardiac rehabilitation discharge written by Kelly R. Evenson and published by RTI Press. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because many patients reduce exercise following outpatient cardiac rehabilitation (CR), we developed an intervention to assist with the transition and evaluated its feasibility and preliminary efficacy using a one-group pretest–posttest design. Five CR patients were enrolled ~1 month prior to CR discharge and provided an activity tracker. Each week during CR they received a summary of their physical activity and steps. Following CR discharge, participants received an individualized report that included their physical activity and step history, information on specific features of the activity tracker, and encouraging messages from former CR patients for each of the next 6 weeks. Mixed model trajectory analyses were used to test the intervention effect separately for active minutes and steps modeling three study phases: pre-intervention (day activity tracking began to CR discharge), intervention (day following CR discharge to day when final report sent), and maintenance (day following the final report to ~1 month later). Activity tracking was successfully deployed and, with weekly reports following CR, may offset the usual decline in physical activity. When weekly reports ceased, a decline in steps/day occurred. A scaled-up intervention with a more rigorous study design with sufficient sample size can evaluate this approach further.
Download or read book Health Beliefs Will to Live Hope and Social Support in a Pedometer based Exercise Intervention Among Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients written by Derek Ryan Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the United States. One of the primary modifiable and preventable risks for CVD is physical inactivity. Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) was developed to slow or reverse CVD progression via increased physical activity, but 30-50% of those who enroll in CR will dropout prematurely. Among those who complete CR, 50-70% discontinue regular physical activity following CR. This dissertation incorporated two related studies examining exercise adherence and maintenance among CR patients. The first study evaluated the degree to which specific health-related beliefs and attitudes (i.e., irrational health beliefs, health-related social support, hope, will to live) predict adherence to a CR exercise-based program. The second study evaluated the effect of pedometer tracking on exercise adherence among post-CR patients in a randomized study with control participants engaging in usual care. This study also investigated the moderating influence of health-related beliefs and attitudes on exercise and exercise-related outcomes (e.g., number of steps, 6-minute walk, blood pressure, body mass index) in the pedometer intervention. The current study included 60 CR patients (56.7% Caucasian, 65.1% male, mean age = 57.0 + 10.8) who participated in a 12-week CR program. Thirty-eight participants completed CR and were randomized to a 3-month pedometer tracking intervention (n = 18) or usual care control group (n = 20).
Download or read book The Efficacy of a Pedometer Based Intervention in Increasing Physical Activity in People Referred to Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation written by Lyra Butler and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 34 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 The Effectiveness of a Motivational targeted Feedback Message Intervention on Increasing Physical Activity in Long term Maintenance Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients written by Elise R. Metzger and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Two part Study of Step Counter Accuracy and Ecological Momentary Assessment of Correlates to Total Physical Activity in Phase II Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients written by Lindsay Powell Toth and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is an exercise and education program aimed to help individuals improve fitness levels to return to their careers and social lives. The dropout rate is high, between 25% to 50%, and is related to several factors with an early predictor being higher anxiety levels. It is important to understand the patterns and consistency of this variable as it changes throughout the day and its association physical activity (PA) in order to influence interventions. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) and actigraphy can capture momentary anxiety and PA, respectively, for temporal analysis. This dissertation includes two studies. Study I examined the error in daily steps of four wearable PA monitors (Fitbit Charge 2, Apple Watch Series 2, Fitbit Zip, ActiGraph GT9X) in phase II CR patients. Nineteen patients wore activity monitors on the ankle, non-dominant wrist, and waist on two days that they attended CR and two days when they did not. Steps from each monitor were compared to criterion steps from the StepWatch (SW). The Fitbit Charge and Apple Watch captured within 10% of SW steps and most other monitors underestimated steps. Study II examined the consistency and intra- and inter-individual patterns in state anxiety (SA) and PA and described the feasibility of mobile EMA for those in phase II CR. Nine adults received four mobile phone surveys each day, assessing momentary SA, for 14 consecutive days while concurrently wearing an ActiGraph GT3X+ across the day. In this study, participants demonstrated consistent, low levels of SA (ICC = 0.68, average = 9.1 on a scale of 6 to 24). The relationship between PA and SA varied between individuals, showing positive and negative slopes for individual participants. Survey compliance rate and ActiGraph wear time met a priori benchmarks for feasibility, but recruitment did not. Lack of smartphone ownership and limited smartphone access at work were the primary challenges to recruitment. This study was the first to describe the patterns of momentary SA for this population. Individual pattern analysis is necessary for classifying individuals, but further study is needed to direct development of interventions based on ecologically valid data.
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 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 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 The Cardiac Patient written by Richard G. Sanderson and published by W.B. Saunders Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exercise and Diabetes written by Sheri R. Colberg and published by American Diabetes Association. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical movement has a positive effect on physical fitness, morbidity, and mortality in individuals with diabetes. Although exercise has long been considered a cornerstone of diabetes management, many health care providers fail to prescribe it. In addition, many fitness professionals may be unaware of the complexities of including physical activity in the management of diabetes. Giving patients or clients a full exercise prescription that take other chronic conditions commonly accompanying diabetes into account may be too time-consuming for or beyond the expertise of many health care and fitness professionals. The purpose of this book is to cover the recommended types and quantities of physical activities that can and should be undertaken by all individuals with any type of diabetes, along with precautions related to medication use and diabetes-related health complications. Medications used to control diabetes should augment lifestyle improvements like increased daily physical activity rather than replace them. Up until now, professional books with exercise information and prescriptions were not timely or interactive enough to easily provide busy professionals with access to the latest recommendations for each unique patient. However, simply instructing patients to “exercise more” is frequently not motivating or informative enough to get them regularly or safely active. This book is changing all that with its up-to-date and easy-to-prescribe exercise and physical activity recommendations and relevant case studies. Read and learn to quickly prescribe effective and appropriate exercise to everyone.
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 WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pedometer Use as a Motivational Tool for Increased Physical Activity in Bariatric Surgery Patients written by Nicole Hunka and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obesity is a significant health care crisis in the United States. It is associated with various physical and mental health problems, decreased quality of life, and significant medical costs. Bariatric surgery has become a popular intervention for weight management but successful, long-term outcomes are largely dependent on patients' behavioral and lifestyle changes, perhaps most notably, their motivation to engage in consistent physical activity. However, compliance with physical activity recommendations is consistently demonstrated as problematic for this population. A better understanding of the psychological and theoretical variables that hinder bariatric patients' motivation for physical activity is necessary in order to better construct interventions to assist this population in behavior change. Unfortunately, theoretically guided interventions focused on influential psychological variables are often absent treatment components within bariatric surgery programs. The current study applied Social-Cognitive Theory as a framework to conceptualize the problem of motivation for consistent physical activity specific to the post-operative bariatric surgery population. This study looked specifically at the impact of social-cognitive constructs of self-efficacy, goal setting, and objective performance feedback (via the use of pedometers) on motivation for engaging in physical activity. This study was unique not only in the theoretical constructs examined with post-operative bariatric patients, but also in that it used objective feedback devices (pedometers) to assist patients in both accurate self-monitoring and recorded activity levels. Results indicated that self-efficacy did not impact the outcome as originally expected. However, the social-cognitive variable of feedback was demonstrated to be a significant factor in motivation for activity (walking). Overall, the general conclusion was that the performance feedback provided by pedometers can be used as a motivational tool to increase physical activity in the post-operative bariatric surgery population. Findings of this study may help bariatric treatment teams better assist their patients in setting and achieving personal physical activity goals to facilitate a long-term healthy weight and lifestyle.
