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Stephanie Schoeppe, Jo Salmon, Susan L. Williams, Deborah Power, Stephanie Alley, Amanda L. Rebar, Melanie Hayman, Mitch J. Duncan and Corneel Vandelanotte
(1) Background: Interventions using activity trackers and smartphone apps have demonstrated their ability to increase physical activity in children and adults. However, they have not been tested in whole families. Further, few family-centered interventio...
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Leandro Mariano, Hélder Simões, Sonia Brito-Costa and Ana Paula Amaral
Teaching is one of the hardest occupations according to the International Organization of Teachers (IOT), affecting teachers? emotional and physical well-being and impacting their professional performance. Intervention programs addressing this issue usua...
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Sara Contreras-Martos, Alfonso Leiva, Álvaro Sanchez, Emma Motrico, Juan Bellón, Susana Aldecoa Landesa, Rosa Magallón-Botaya, Marc Casajuana-Closas, Edurne Zabaleta-del-Olmo, Bonaventura Bolíbar, José-Ángel Maderuelo and Joan Llobera
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that physical inactivity (PI) is responsible for 20 to 30% of all non-communicable diseases. We aimed to analyze the effectiveness of a multiple health behavior change (MHBC) intervention to increase physical...
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Anna T. Rayward, Corneel Vandelanotte, Kelly Corry, Anetta Van Itallie and Mitch J. Duncan
Social media campaigns provide broad-reach and convenience for promoting freely-available health programs. However, their effectiveness and subsequent engagement of new users is unknown. This study aimed to assess the reach and new member registration ra...
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Carmen W. H. Chan, Elce Au Yeung and Bernard M. H. Law
Regular physical activity has been demonstrated to contribute to physical and psychological health. Nevertheless, pregnant women generally exhibit low levels of physical activity. Implementation of interventions that enhance the self-efficacy of pregnant...
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Janet M. Boekhout, Brenda A. J. Berendsen, Denise A. Peels, Catherine A. W. Bolman and Lilian Lechner
This study explores the effectiveness of the Active Plus65 intervention designed to stimulate physical activity among single older adults with a chronic physical impairment. A quasi-experimental pre-test post-test study was performed. The intervention gr...
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Denise Peels, Aart Mudde, Catherine Bolman, Rianne Golsteijn, Hein De Vries and Lilian Lechner
The public health impact of health behaviour interventions is highly dependent on large-scale implementation. Intermediaries?intervention providers?determine to a large extent whether an intervention reaches the target population, and hence its impact on...
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Agata Glapa, Joanna Grzesiak, Ida Laudanska-Krzeminska, Ming-Kai Chin, Christopher R. Edginton, Magdalena Mo Ching Mok and Michal Bronikowski
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of the Brain Breaks® Physical Activity Solutions in changing attitudes toward physical activity of school children in a community in Poland. In 2015, a sample of 326 pupils aged 9?11 years old fr...
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Stephanie L. Orstad, Lauren Gerchow, Nikhil R. Patel, Meghana Reddy, Christina Hernandez, Dawn K. Wilson and Melanie Jay
Despite the popularity of commercially available wearable activity monitors (WAMs), there is a paucity of consistent methodology for analyzing large amounts of accelerometer data from these devices. This multimethod study aimed to inform appropriate Fitb...
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Raphiel Murden, Jon Agley, Lilian Golzarri-Arroyo, Armando Peña, Danny Valdez, Abu Bakkar Siddique, Moonseong Heo and David B. Allison
We conducted a critical review of the article ?Effects on Children?s Physical and Mental Well-Being of a Physical-Activity-Based School Intervention Program: A Randomized Study?, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public...
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Elviira Lehto, Carola Ray, Henna Vepsäläinen, Liisa Korkalo, Reetta Lehto, Riikka Kaukonen, Eira Suhonen, Mari Nislin, Kaija Nissinen, Essi Skaffari, Leena Koivusilta, Nina Sajaniemi, Maijaliisa Erkkola and Eva Roos
This paper describes the Increased Health and Wellbeing in Preschools (DAGIS) survey process and socioeconomic status (SES) differences in children’s energy balance-related behaviors (EBRBs), meaning physical activity, sedentary and dietary behavio...
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Lucia Tarro, Magaly Aceves-Martins, Ignasi Papell-Garcia, Lluís Arola, Montse Giralt, Elisabet Llauradó and Rosa Solà
Introduction: The EYTO-kids (European Youth Tackling Obesity in Adolescents and Children) study aims to increase fruit and/or vegetable consumption and physical activity, decrease sedentary lifestyles, and reduce the intake of sugary drinks and fast food...
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Norbert Mundorf, Colleen A. Redding and Andrea L. Paiva
Promoting physical activity and sustainable transportation is essential in the face of rising health care costs, obesity rates, and other public health threats resulting from lack of physical activity. Targeted communications can encourage distinct popul...
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Sarah L. Taylor, Whitney B. Curry, Zoe R. Knowles, Robert J. Noonan, Bronagh McGrane and Stuart J. Fairclough
Background: Schools have been identified as important settings for health promotion through physical activity participation, particularly as children are insufficiently active for health. The aim of this study was to investigate the child and school-leve...
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Mark A. Pereira, Thomas E. Kottke, Courtney Jordan, Patrick J. O?Connor, Nicolaas P. Pronk and Rita Carreón
Cardiometabolic risk (CMR), also known as metabolic syndrome or insulin resistance syndrome, comprises obesity (particularly central or abdominal obesity), high triglycerides, low HDL, elevated blood pressure, and elevated plasma glucose. Leading to deat...
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Lorena Gutiérrez, Ana Myriam Lavín-Pérez, Patricia Catalá, Carmen Écija, Daniel Collado-Mateo, Alexander Gil-Arias and Cecilia Peñacoba
Adherence to physical exercise is especially low in patients with fibromyalgia, and there is a tendency to overestimate its performance. This study explores the relationship between perceived and actual walking behavior in patients with fibromyalgia, inc...
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Alexander Hohl and Aynaz Lotfata
The pandemic?s lockdown has made physical inactivity unavoidable, forcing many people to work from home and increasing the sedentary nature of their lifestyle. The link between spatial and socio-environmental dynamics and people?s levels of physical acti...
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Leila Sadat Rezai, Jessie Chin, Reicelis Casares-Li, Fan He, Rebecca Bassett-Gunter and Catherine Burns
Background: Many behaviour-change technologies have been designed to help people with a sedentary lifestyle to become more physically active. However, challenges exist in designing systems that work effectively. One of the key challenges is that many of ...
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Felipe Rafael Valle Díaz
The objective was to describe and argue the barriers that prevent the recovery of Stone Forest type enterprises in the Peruvian Andean zone. Located in the qualitative approach, basic type, case study design. The sample was physical spaces with shapes in...
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Yung Liao, Pin-Hsuan Huang, Chih-Yu Hsiang, Jing-Huei Huang, Ming-Chun Hsueh and Jong-Hwan Park
This study examines the cross-sectional associations between personal and perceived neighborhood environment attributes regarding walking for recreation and transportation among older Taiwanese adults. Data related to personal factors, perceived environm...
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