Reaching beyond the 'worried well': pre-adoption characteristics of participants in 'Men on the Move', a community-based physical activity programme

Autor: Paula Carroll, Aisling Keohane, Noel Richardson, Michael Harrison, Liam P. Kelly, Steve Robertson, Alex Donohoe
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Gerontology
Male
obesity
cardiovascular disease risk factors
health promotion
Health Status
physical activity
Overweight
0302 clinical medicine
healthCORE - IT Carlow
Risk Factors
gender
Medicine
guidelines
030212 general & internal medicine
Aged
80 and over
adult
030503 health policy & services
Mortality rate
Age Factors
General Medicine
self-report
Middle Aged
Outreach
Cardiovascular Diseases
Cohort
public health medicine
community
medicine.symptom
0305 other medical science
Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Health Promotion
men's health
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
Humans
Exercise
Aged
business.industry
Public health
Patient Selection
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health
medicine.disease
Obesity
cardiovascular diseases
Health promotion
partnerships
Life expectancy
business
Ireland
Zdroj: Journal of public health (Oxford, England). 41(2)
ISSN: 1741-3850
1741-3842
Popis: Background Issues surrounding gender and men’s health have become an increasing focus of public health globally. Unhealthy lifestyles and lower engagement in health promotion initiatives contributed to lower life expectancy and higher mortality rates among men. This study presents the pre-adoption characteristics of men who registered for ‘Men on the Move’—a community-based physical activity (CBPA) programme, to ascertain whether the programme reached its intended target group, i.e. ‘at-risk’ adult men who did not meet physical activity (PA) guidelines and were likely to have multiple risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Methods Multiple recruitment strategies were adopted to engage the target group and baseline data collection included a range of demographic, self-report and outcome measures. Results The recruitment strategy succeeded in reaching the target group, with the majority (n = 927) presenting being previously inactive (89.0%), overweight/obese (89.7%) and having multiple CVD risk factors (53.1% ≥ 2 risk factors). However, the strategy was less successful in engaging ‘hard-to-reach’ groups, with the majority being middle-aged, white, married/cohabiting, educated and employed. Conclusions A gender-sensitized, partnership and community outreach recruitment strategy can maximize the reach and recruitment of an ‘at-risk’ cohort for CBPA initiatives, but more targeted approaches are needed to recruit marginalized groups of men.
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