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Filter by:Background: The health promotion actions carried out in the school environment have positive effects on reducing risk factors for chronic diseases in adolescents. Interdisciplinary strategies involving school and family to increase the level of physical activity among adolescents, inside and outside the school, are essential to encourage healthier lifestyles. Aim: To determine whether a 24-weeks interdisciplinary intervention program promotes improvement in the level of physical activity, physical fitness, sleep quality, life satisfaction, eating habits and reduce the sedentary behavior of schoolchildren aged 10 to 13 years of public schools in the city of Presidente Prudente, São Paulo, Brazil. The intervention: Includes training of teacher Physical Education in the principles of self-determination theory and ecological theory at practical applications for motivating adolescents in physical activities and sports. The students will be given information on the benefits of a physically active lifestyle and will be encouraged to participated the new opportunities for physical activity in their school and community. The program will offer physical activity strategies over the 24-weeks during class Physical Education, afternoon recess and active lesson breaks in theoretical classes. Nutritional guidelines and gardening experience will be developed to encourage healthy eating habits among schoolchildren and to reduce salt, oil and sugar in the preparation of school lunch. Methods/design: The project, which being conducted as cluster randomized trial, is to evaluated whit in a mixed methods, including qualitative and quantitative approach will be used for the construction of the actions integrated to the school physical education curriculum and evaluation of the program by the participants and supporters. The RE-AIM evaluation metric (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance) is used to guide the validation this program.
Fundamental movement skill is the precursor for physical activity in later life. Proficiency of Fundamental Movement Skills in Indian School Children is unknown. This observational trial shall tell us how proficient are our Udupi District Children.
The overall goal of this study is to test personalized mobile phone-based physical activity interventions among students at the University of California, Berkeley. Most physical fitness applications for smartphones and activity trackers use a constant goal for the number of steps each day. However, if the step goals are dynamically adjusted according to past behavior, then the corresponding goals may encourage individuals to increase their physical activity level. This study consists of a randomized controlled trial in which we are assessing the efficacy of four different algorithms for calculating personalized goals for the number of steps each day and for determining which motivational messages to send each day.
This study is a parallel group randomized controlled trial among female university students designed to test the effect of a physical activity intervention on daily walking. Both groups will receive messages 2-3 times per week via WhatsApp. Intervention group will receive orientation and wear a pedometer for the study period. The follow-up duration is 3 months.
The goal of the study is to develop and test an intervention toolkit to increase the enrollment in EnhanceFitness (an evidence-based group physical activity program for older adults) at Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) sites through physical therapist referrals. A cluster-randomized trial will be used to compare current and intervention toolkit approaches to generating enrollment in EnhanceFitness at YMCAs. The objective of this trial is to compare the effectiveness and cost of the current approach for generating enrollment in EnhanceFitness ("business as usual" or "control arm") with the intervention toolkit that YMCA staff will use to engage physical therapists to refer their older adult patients to EnhanceFitness (the "intervention").
This study is a randomized controlled trial, designed to evaluate the effect of structured physical exercise sessions on the spontaneous physical activity energy expenditure and caloric intake in overweight adults. The design employs a parallel three-group experimental arms: (1) a moderate exercise group (MEG); (2) a vigorous exercise group (VEG); and a control group (CG) without physical exercise sessions.
This study examines the effectiveness and the costs of a complex multiple risk behavior intervention to promote healthy behaviors in people aged between 45 and 75 years attended in Primary Health Care services. This intervention aims to reduce tobacco use, to enhance adherence to the Mediterranean dietary pattern and to increase physical activity. The study also seeks to provide evidence on the strategies to integrate health promotion into the usual clinical practice of primary care providers.
A two-arm parallel randomised controlled trial comparing pedometer-based intervention with and without email counselling in a primary care setting. Physically inactive patients from four general practices will be randomised to the pedometer-plus-email group or to the pedometer-alone group. All patients will be instructed to gradually increase the daily number of steps to at least 10,000. Patients in the pedometer-plus-email group will receive 8 counselling emails based on behavioural techniques. The primary outcome will be change in average daily steps measured during 7-day period at baseline and at 12 weeks.
This study is for physically inactive adults with an active membership at a Greater Providence Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). Participants will receive weekly feedback on their attendance at the YMCA, and will be enrolled in the study for 1 year. Participants will be assigned to one of three conditions, to either receive weekly: (i) monetary incentives, (ii) donations to a charity of their choice, or (iii) feedback only. In order to continue to receive incentives, participants must maintain an active membership at the YMCA.
The overall objective of the proposed research is to pilot test the feasibility and acceptability of a set of more scalable technology-supported physical activity promotion intervention strategies in breast cancer survivors using tMultiphase Optimization Strategy Trial (MOST) methodology. MOST involves highly efficient randomized experimentation to assess the effects of individual intervention strategies, and thereby identify which strategies and what strategy levels make the important contributions to the overall program's effect on physical activity. This information then guides assembly of an optimized physical activity program, that achieves target outcomes with least resource consumption and participant burden. The resulting intervention will have great potential for scalability because it uses technology (smartphones) participants already own and requires no on-site visits.