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- Title
An effort to ‘leverage’ the effect of participation in a mass event on physical activity.
- Authors
LANE, AOIFE; MURPHY, NIAMH; BAUMAN, ADRIAN
- Abstract
Despite the considerable interest in community-based physical activity (PA) interventions, there is a lack of clarity on which strategies are most effective and most likely to work in different contexts. The purpose of this study was to use existing community resources to promote PA in a population sample of insufficiently active women using a cluster RCT design. Participants (n = 402) were grouped into 32 geographical-based clusters, which were randomly allocated into 16 intervention (n = 193) and 16 control (n = 209) regions. The intervention was delivered in conjunction with regional units of the Irish Sports Council; participants received a pack containing tailored information about local PA options in their community, training plans, stage-matched behaviour change booklets and a pedometer. Control participants received health promotion leaflets. Evaluation was conducted using the RE-AIM framework to assess both effectiveness and generalizability. Repeated measures ANOVAs with adjustment for clustering revealed that both groups displayed an approximate 39 min increase in PA, but decreases in sitting were greater in the intervention group than the control group (32.9 versus 1.2 min). Recall of materials was high ranging between 85 and 97% for the various intervention components. Finally, those who received higher doses of the intervention (three or more components) reported an approximate 50 min increase in PA compared with 18 min among those who did not use any aspect of the intervention. While no clear intervention effect was evident, this research was successful in linking and implementing good research design with PA promoting networks.
- Subjects
IRELAND; ANALYSIS of variance; BEHAVIOR modification; COMMUNITY health services; CONCEPTUAL structures; HEALTH promotion; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; SELF-efficacy; STATISTICS; SAMPLE size (Statistics); PEDOMETERS; SOCIAL support; COMMUNITY-based social services; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; HUMAN services programs; PRE-tests &; post-tests; INTER-observer reliability; REPEATED measures design; LONG-distance running; SEDENTARY lifestyles; PHYSICAL activity; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Health Promotion International, 2015, Vol 30, Issue 3, p542
- ISSN
0957-4824
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/heapro/dat077