African-American Women's Long-term Maintenance of Physical Activity Following a Randomized Controlled Trial
| Autor: | Lynne T. Braun, Susan W. Buchholz, Michael Schoeny, JoEllen Wilbur, Louis Fogg, Shannon Halloway, Arlene Michaels Miller |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Adult
medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Health (social science) Social Psychology Health Behavior Physical activity Health Promotion Disease law.invention 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Randomized controlled trial law Intervention (counseling) Humans Medicine Healthy Lifestyle 030212 general & internal medicine Exercise physiology Exercise Aged African american Motivation 030505 public health business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Follow up studies Long term maintenance Middle Aged Telephone Black or African American Physical therapy Female 0305 other medical science business Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Health Behavior. 41:484-496 |
| ISSN: | 1087-3244 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVES Our purpose was to determine long-term maintenance of physical activity (PA) following the 48-week Women's Lifestyle PA program, targeted/tailored for African-American women. METHODS The parent study consisted of a 3-arm randomized clinical trial with 3 assessment points: baseline (pre-intervention); 24 weeks post-baseline (end active intervention); and 48 weeks post-baseline (end maintenance intervention). Present analyses supplement the original results by adding a long-term maintenance assessment that occurred 2 to 4 years post-baseline. Participants were 288 African-American women aged 40 to 65 without major signs/symptoms of pulmonary/cardiovascular disease. The active intervention included 5 group meetings, with 9 personal motivational calls, 9 automated motivational calls, or no calls between meetings. The maintenance intervention included one group meeting and either 2 calls or no calls. PA was assessed with the Community Healthy Activities Model Program for Seniors. RESULTS Retention was 90%. Over long-term maintenance, there was a decline in PA, but levels remained significantly higher than baseline for moderate/vigorous PA (p < .001), leisure moderate/vigorous PA (p < .001) and walking (p = .006). Variations by condition/site were not statistically significant. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that long-term maintenance of PA increases resulting from group meetings in an active intervention occur when followed by a maintenance intervention. |
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