Twelve month impact of the Just Walk It program on physical activity levels
| Autor: | Rachelle Foreman, Wendy J. Brown, Jannique G. Z. van Uffelen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Male Gerontology Community-Based Participatory Research medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Behaviour change Adolescent Physical activity Health Promotion Walking Young Adult Sex Factors Sex factors Internal medicine Humans Medicine Exercise Aged Community and Home Care Community based intervention business.industry Age Factors Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Social Support Middle Aged Female Queensland business |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 2201-1617 1036-1073 |
| DOI: | 10.1071/he12101 |
| Popis: | Issue addressed: There is limited evaluation on the impact of community-based walking groups on physical activity (PA). This study examined the amount of walking and total PA minutes when adults joined the Just Walk It (JWI) program in Queensland, and changes over time. Methods: All adult participants (n=1258) were sent a survey on registration with the JWI program between April 2002 and December 2003, and after 6 and 12 months. Outcomes included self-reported minutes of walking and total PA in the past week and the proportion meeting PA recommendations. Results: Of the 1,258 registrants, 601 returned the 12-month survey; 423 of these confirmed they still participated. At baseline, 36 (8.5%) of these were inactive, 280 (66.2%) were insufficiently active to meet PA recommendations and 107 (25.3%) met PA recommendations. Among these groups, the largest 12-month increases in walking and total PA were in participants who were inactive (177 minutes, 95% CI 144-210, p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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