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A physical activity coaching intervention can improve and maintain physical activity and health-related outcomes in adult ambulatory hospital patients: the Healthy4U-2 randomised controlled trial
| Title: | A physical activity coaching intervention can improve and maintain physical activity and health-related outcomes in adult ambulatory hospital patients: the Healthy4U-2 randomised controlled trial |
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| Authors: | Stephen Barrett, Stephen Begg, Paul O’Halloran, Michael Kingsley |
| Source: | International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2020) |
| Publisher Information: | BMC, 2020. |
| Publication Year: | 2020 |
| Collection: | LCC:Nutritional diseases. Deficiency diseases LCC:Public aspects of medicine |
| Subject Terms: | Physical activity, Exercise motivation, Accelerometry, Public health, Nutritional diseases. Deficiency diseases, RC620-627, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270 |
| More Details: | Abstract Background The Healthy 4 U-2 study sought to evaluate the effect of a twelve-week, physical activity (PA) coaching intervention for changes and maintenance in PA, anthropometrics and health-related outcomes in adults presenting to an ambulatory hospital clinic. Methods One hundred and twenty insufficiently active adults were recruited from an ambulatory hospital clinic and randomised to an intervention group that received an education session and five 20-min telephone sessions of PA coaching, or to a control group that received the education session only. ActiGraph GT3X accelerometers were used to measure moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) at baseline, post-intervention (3-months) and follow-up (9-months). Secondary outcome measures (anthropometrics, PA self-efficacy, and health-related quality of life) were also assessed at the three time points. Results At baseline, the mean age and body mass index of participants were 53 ± 8 years and 31 ± 4 kg/m2, respectively. Relative to control, the intervention group increased objectively measured MVPA at post-intervention (p |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 1479-5868 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/1479-5868 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12966-020-01063-x |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/ee0905cc3ce346dca333050f0eb94d78 |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.0905cc3ce346dca333050f0eb94d78 |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
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| ISSN: | 14795868 |
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| DOI: | 10.1186/s12966-020-01063-x |
| Published in: | International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity |
| Language: | English |