Download or read book The Effects of a Stage specific Education counseling Program for Increasing Exercise Self efficacy in Women with Elevated Blood Pressure written by Linda Kubalak Daley and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Evidence Helping people help themselves written by Debra de Silva and published by The Health Foundation. This book was released on 2011 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Educating the Student Body written by Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical inactivity is a key determinant of health across the lifespan. A lack of activity increases the risk of heart disease, colon and breast cancer, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, osteoporosis, anxiety and depression and others diseases. Emerging literature has suggested that in terms of mortality, the global population health burden of physical inactivity approaches that of cigarette smoking. The prevalence and substantial disease risk associated with physical inactivity has been described as a pandemic. The prevalence, health impact, and evidence of changeability all have resulted in calls for action to increase physical activity across the lifespan. In response to the need to find ways to make physical activity a health priority for youth, the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment was formed. Its purpose was to review the current status of physical activity and physical education in the school environment, including before, during, and after school, and examine the influences of physical activity and physical education on the short and long term physical, cognitive and brain, and psychosocial health and development of children and adolescents. Educating the Student Body makes recommendations about approaches for strengthening and improving programs and policies for physical activity and physical education in the school environment. This report lays out a set of guiding principles to guide its work on these tasks. These included: recognizing the benefits of instilling life-long physical activity habits in children; the value of using systems thinking in improving physical activity and physical education in the school environment; the recognition of current disparities in opportunities and the need to achieve equity in physical activity and physical education; the importance of considering all types of school environments; the need to take into consideration the diversity of students as recommendations are developed. This report will be of interest to local and national policymakers, school officials, teachers, and the education community, researchers, professional organizations, and parents interested in physical activity, physical education, and health for school-aged children and adolescents.

Download or read book The Effects of a Stage based Intervention Program on Physical Activity Levels Self efficacy Perceived Barriers and Stages of Exercise Behavior in High School Females written by Denise Marie Jehue and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Enhancing Self efficacy in the Utilization of Physical Activity Counseling written by Cassandra Demetria Pasquariello and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our sedentary society, physical inactivity has become the biggest public health concern of the 21st century. In addition to physical health promotion, physical activity has been associated with a number of positive psychological and social outcomes. Psychologists are well positioned to provide physical activity counseling and may have ethical obligations to address physical activity with their clients. Training the next generation of psychologists about the role of physical activity and health is critical to ensure best practices in graduate education. Researchers have cited insufficient training as a barrier to integrating physical activity into clinical work, yet little is known about effective training in physical activity counseling. One way to address these barriers is to employ an online-based training program allowing greater accessibility for doctoral psychology students across the United States. This exploratory study evaluated the effectiveness of a constructivist online interactive intervention, and compared it with a more traditional online content intervention and a control group, for enhancing doctoral psychology students' self-efficacy in using physical activity counseling. It was hypothesized that 1) online interactive intervention would enhance self-efficacy, knowledge, and use of physical activity counseling compared to the online content intervention; and 2) both of these active treatments would yield improvements in physical activity counseling outcomes (e.g. self-efficacy, knowledge of health benefits of exercise, practice of physical activity counseling with clients, and personal level physical activity) compared with a control group. Results partially supported the original hypotheses. Mixed ANCOVA analyses indicated that participants in both intervention groups showed more self-efficacy at post-intervention assessment compared to their control group peers but the interactive intervention was not more effective than the content based intervention. Participants in the intervention groups demonstrated more targeted knowledge of physical activity counseling at post-intervention compared to their control group peers. No differences were found in the practice of physical activity counseling with clients post intervention. This study indicates there may be promise in using online platforms for enhancing physical activity counseling self-efficacy among psychologists in training. Future studies should continue to assess the effectiveness of physical activity counseling and refine training interventions to examine the effects of such interventions among the next generation of psychologists.

Download or read book The Effects of Social Support Intervention and Self efficacy Cognitions on Exercise Ahderence written by Kathleen Jo Buchko and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Exercise and Sport in Feminist Therapy written by Ruth Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrate physical activity into feminist therapy!This book explores the healing use of exercise and sport as a helpful adjunct to therapy from several therapeutic orientations within the feminist context. It looks at the ways that feminist orientations challenge the mind-body dichotomy and explores the benefits of integrating physical activity, exercise, and sport into therapy. From the editors: The contributors to this book display a diversity of theory and research approaches, including the integration of the exercise/sport sciences and exercise physiology. This volume is unique in that there has been comparatively little written about the use of exercise in therapy even though exercise is a wonderful and useful intervention tool in the treatment of depression, stress, anxiety disorders, and chronic pain. This book illustrates how exercise can be applied to inpatient and outpatient populations, to the neurotic, and to the chronically mentally ill. Exercise can reduce the incidence of chronic diseases, including diabetes and hypertension, as well as address physical problems such as obesity. Exercise can give one a sense of mastery and self-confidence. As our authors suggest, exercise must be tailored to specific issues and client populations and diagnoses, level of functioning, age, overall health, and cultural context must all be taken into account. Exercise and Sport in Feminist Therapy: Constructing Modalities and Assessing Outcomes examines: the theory supporting the use of physicality to enhance various types of psychotherapypsychoanalytic, cognitive-behavioral, constructivist, narrative, and organismic/systems practical methods of integrating exercise into varied orientations an exercise program for women with fibromyalgia a way to use exercise to enhance rehabilitation from breast cancer the use of exercise in group therapy for women suffering with chronic mental illness the “tend and befriend” model, which can help clients to meet their exercise program responsibilities

Download or read book Index Medicus written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 2098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1963- include as pt. 2 of the Jan. issue: Medical subject headings.

Download or read book Effects of Exercise on Hypertension written by Linda S. Pescatello and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first primer on the effects of exercise on human hypertension, Effects of Exercise on Hypertension: From Cells to Physiological Systems provides the state-of-the-art effects of exercise on the many possible mechanisms underlying essential hypertension in humans. The book contains chapters by distinguished experts on the effects of exercise on physiological systems known to be involved in hypertension development and maintenance as well as less well known aspects of hypertension such as 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure profile and oxidative stress. An emerging area, the effects of resistance exercise training on blood pressure is also covered. A unique aspect of the book is that it covers the effects of exercise mimetics on vascular cell adaptations in order to begin to elucidate some of the cellular mechanisms that may underlie blood pressure reductions with exercise training. Lastly, the book will end with a chapter on the interactive effects of genes and exercise on blood pressure. Chapters are grouped by physiological system or mechanism. The text begins with two overview chapters; one on the general effects of aerobic exercise training and the second on the general effects of resistance exercise training on blood pressure. Each chapter begins with a bulleted list of key points. Effects of Exercise on Hypertension: From Cells to Physiological Systems will be of great value to professional individuals in cardiovascular medicine, the cardiovascular sciences, allied health care professionals, and medical and graduate students in the cardiovascular sciences and medicine.

Download or read book Behavioral Counseling to Promote Physical Activity and a Healthful Diet to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease in Adults written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PURPOSE: We conducted this systematic evidence review of trials of physical activity and/or dietary counseling to prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD) to assist the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) in updating its 2002 and 2003 recommendations on counseling to improve physical activity and diet, respectively. DATA SOURCES: We searched MEDLINE, PsycInfo, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials 2001-2009 to locate relevant trials for all key questions published since the previous reviews were conducted. We supplemented our searches with suggestions from experts and reference lists from other publications, including the prior USPSTF reviews and other relevant systematic reviews. STUDY SELECTION: Two investigators independently reviewed 13,562 abstracts and 474 articles against a set of a priori inclusion criteria, and also independently critically appraised each study using design-specific quality criteria based on USPSTF methods. Discrepancies were resolved by consensus. In total, 109 articles representing 73 unique studies were included. DATA EXTRACTION AND ANALYSIS: One investigator abstracted data from included studies into evidence tables and a second reviewer checked these data. We conducted meta-analyses on 58 trials that provided necessary data to estimate the effect size of counseling on both intermediate health outcomes (adiposity, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, high-density lipoproteins [HDLs], low-density lipoproteins [LDLs], triglycerides, and glucose) and behavioral outcomes (self-reported physical activity; fitness; intake of total energy, fat, saturated fat, fiber, fruits and vegetables; and urinary sodium as a measure of sodium intake). DATA SYNTHESIS: Key Question 1: Do healthful diet and/or physical activity interventions improve CVD health outcomes in adults? One large, good-quality trial evaluating an intensive healthful diet counseling intervention showed no difference in the incidence of coronary heart disease or stroke over a mean of 8 years followup. Observational followup of two hypertension prevention trials evaluating intensive sodium reduction counseling showed a decrease in the incidence of CVD outcomes over 10 to 15 years of followup. Key Question 2: Do healthful diet and/or physical activity interventions improve intermediate outcomes associated with CVD in adults? Medium- (31 to 360 minutes) to high-intensity (>360 minutes) dietary interventions (with or without concomitant physical activity counseling) decreased body mass index (BMI) approximately 0.3 to 0.7 kg/m2 at 12 months. The largest reduction in blood pressures occurred in three intensive salt-restriction counseling interventions in persons with mildly elevated diastolic blood pressure, resulting in approximately 1.8 mmHg lower systolic blood pressure and 1.1 mmHg lower diastolic blood pressure at 12 months. Medium- and high-intensity diet and lifestyle interventions decreased systolic blood pressure by 0.9 to 1.4 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure by 0.7 mmHg. Medium- and high-intensity diet and combined lifestyle counseling decreased total cholesterol and LDL. When stratified by intervention intensity, however, this decrease was only significant among the six high-intensity counseling interventions with a reduction in total cholesterol of 0.17 mmol/L (6.56 mg/dL) and LDL by 0.13 mmol/L (5.02 mg/dL). Overall, few trials provided followup longer than 12 months. Key Question 3: Do healthful diet and/or physical activity interventions change associated health behaviors in adults? Medium- to high-intensity counseling interventions improved self-reported dietary intake of salt, energy, fats, and fruits and vegetables and self-reported physical activity. The medium-intensity physical activity counseling interventions in this review resulted in an approximately 38-minute increase in physical activity per week. Diet and combined lifestyle counseling interventions decreased total fat and saturated fat intake and increased fruit and vegetable consumption. Although there was significant statistical heterogeneity across interventions, there appeared to be an increasing effect size with intervention intensity. Among low-intensity interventions, there was an approximate 1.5 percent decrease in energy intake from fats; for medium-intensity counseling there was an approximate 3.0 to 4.9 percent decrease in energy intake from fats; and for high-intensity interventions there was an approximate 5.9 to 11 percent decrease in energy intake from total fat. Saturated fat intake was reported less frequently, but effects were generally consistent with the magnitude of effect seen with total fat intake. Counseling interventions increased fruit and vegetable intake by approximately 0.4 to 2 servings per day. Key Question 4: What are the adverse effects of healthful diet and/or physical activity interventions? We found no studies designed to assess the adverse effects of dietary counseling and none of the included healthful diet counseling trials reported specific adverse events. Two physical activity counseling trials reported common findings of mild muscular fatigue, strain, or soreness. Seven comparative observational studies showed that the risk of a cardiac event is increased during vigorous exertion, with a range of 2- to 17-fold increases in risk. LIMITATIONS: In addition to the large statistical heterogeneity limiting confidence in the pooled estimates of effect sizes for some outcomes, other limitations included: there were only 10 trials with followup beyond 12 months, the fact that most trials relied on self-reported behavioral outcomes subject to bias, potential bias due to including only published data, and possible selective reporting of outcomes. CONCLUSIONS: Medium- to high-intensity dietary behavioral counseling resulted in small but statistically significant changes in adiposity, blood pressure, and cholesterol, as well as medium to large changes in self-reported dietary and physical activity behaviors. Evidence for changes in physiologic outcomes was strongest for high-intensity counseling interventions. Medium- to high-intensity physical activity counseling resulted in increases in self-reported physical activity. However, there was limited evidence for maintenance of behavioral or physiologic effects beyond 12 months. Most trials of high-intensity interventions that had followup beyond 12 months showed persistent beneficial changes in adiposity and lipids, as well as improvements in self-reported behavioral outcomes.

Download or read book Journal of the American Dietetic Association written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Psychology of Health and Fitness written by Barbara Brehm and published by F.A. Davis. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to apply the psychology of health and fitness to your exercise programs and to solve the motivational and behavioral problems you’ll encounter every day in practice. You’ll explore the scientific principles and variables that influence behavior as you develop the confidence to design effective lifestyle interventions for disease prevention and develop individualized exercise programs that promote optimal health.

Download or read book The Effects of Stage matched Intervention on the Stages of Change and Exercise Self efficacy written by Meghan Harder and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this study was to examine the influence stage-matching interventions had on stages of change, exercise self-efficacy and the transition from one stage to another in contemplators and preparers participating in lifestyle physical activity. Ten novice male (n=10) and female (n=9) exercisers completed lifestyle activity on their own time and attended biweekly one-hour stage-matched class sessions during a 10-week study. Participants were assessed for stages of change, exercise self-efficacy and cardiorespiratory endurance during the first and tenth week of the study. Cardiorespiratory endurance was measured by a one-mile walk test. They received stage-matched workbooks in addition to attending the class sessions. The Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Signed-Ranks test showed significance difference for stages of change (p=.0117) but not for exercise self-efficacy (p=.0580). The Spearman Rank Order Correlation showed a relationship between stages of change and exercise self-efficacy (p=.0331). A paired t-test was used to analyze cardiorespiratory endurance and showed no significance (p=.7530). The results seem to indicate that stage-matching intervention is a valid tool for exercise behavior change"--Document.

Download or read book Community based Exercise Program Attendance and Exercise Self efficacy in African American Women written by Kisha Marie Virgil and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rates of chronic disease and physical inactivity are disproportionately high among African American women. Despite the known benefits of physical activity and an increasing number of programs designed to increase activity, attendance rates to many exercise programs remain low. There is much to learn about program types, such as healthy lifestyle programs (HLP); individual factors, such as self-efficacy; and mediating variables that may influence exercise program attendance. An observational study design was used to compare exercise self-efficacy and attendance in a community-based exercise program in African American women who were enrolled in a HLP (N = 53) to women who were not (N = 27). Exercise program attendance was gathered across six months; demographics, self-efficacy and physical activity behaviors were assessed through surveys; and physiological variables (resting heart rate and blood pressure, height, and weight) and physical fitness (muscular strength and endurance and cardiovascular endurance) were measured at baseline. Descriptive statistics were used to describe participants and groups were compared using T-tests, chi-square and non-parametric statistics. Finally, mediation analyses were conducted using multiple regression models to assess self-efficacy as a potential mediator to exercise program attendance. Women who enrolled in this study were of low income (61% having an annual income less than $20,000), obese with a mean (standard deviation) body mass index (BMI) of 37.7 (7.6), pre-hypertensive with a mean (standard deviation) systolic blood pressure of 125.9 (14.4), and scored poorly and marginally on two fitness tests. On average, women reported being Moderately Confident in their ability to exercise regularly, yet had low attendance in the exercise program with a median number .5 days over six months and there were no significant differences in exercise self-efficacy (p = .23) or attendance in the exercise program between groups (p = .79). Additionally, exercise self-efficacy was not a mediating variable to program attendance. Women in this study had little discretionary income and several chronic disease risk factors, yet exercise program attendance was low even in those enrolled in a HLP. Identifying factors that increase exercise self-efficacy and factors that influence attendance beyond self-efficacy may help future program design and attendance.

Download or read book Exercise Self efficacy Stages of Exercise Change Health Promotion Behaviors and Physical Activity in Postmenopausal Hispanic Women written by Pamela Wolfe Kohlbry and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this correlational research is to understand the relationships among the variables of exercise self-efficacy, stages of exercise change, health promotion behaviors, body mass index (BMI), health problems, and the level of physical activity in postmenopausal Hispanic women. The significance of this study is to contribute research that enhances the understanding of the relationship of psychosocial and health promotion correlates and physical activity in postmenopausal Hispanic women. On a national level, this is important because Hispanic women make up one of the fastest growing minority populations and they experience the second highest level of obesity. This research is essential for knowledge on which to base interventions for health promotion and the prevention of debilitating health challenges caused by obesity. The theoretical significance of this research is the application of the Transtheoretical Model on stages of exercise change and testing the complementing constructs of Pender's Health Promotion model, including self-efficacy and health promoting behaviors. A descriptive correlational design was used to examine the relationship among the variables. A sample of 121 participants was surveyed from clinical and community settings located in Southern California. A multivariate analysis was computed to explore the relative contribution of modifiable psychosocial correlates of exercise self-efficacy, stages of exercise change, health promotion behaviors, health problems and BMI with the level of physical activity. The study population had a mean age of 57 years, was primarily born in Mexico (47.3%), obese (36.9%), and reported between one and six health problems. The findings from this research demonstrated statistically significant correlations between exercise self-efficacy, stages of exercise change, health promotion behaviors, and level of physical activity. Further, there was a significant inverse correlation of the study variables with health problems and BMI. The findings from this research will develop knowledge useful for the future strategic development of physical activity interventions and programs to facilitate healthy lifestyles with the inclusion of physical activity that are specific to postmenopausal Hispanic women.

Download or read book Effect of Exercise on Blood Pressure and Heart Rate written by S K Bajaj and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2019-08-31 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effect of Exercise on Blood Pressure and Heart Rate