Background: The present study investigated associations in gender dyads of parents’ and adolescents’ time spent on television and video viewing (TV/DVD), and computer and electronic game use (PC/games) at the ages of 11 and 13 years. Possible mediating effects of parental modelling and parental regulation in the relationship between parental ...
Background: Walking interventions have been shown to have a positive impact on physical activity (PA) levels, health and wellbeing for adult and older adult populations. There has been very little work carried out to explore the effectiveness of walking interventions for adults with intellectual disabilities. This paper will provide details ...
Commentary: Rona Macniven, Prevention Research Collaboration, University of Sydney Adolescence is known to be a period of time where physical activity levels decline and weight increases so it is therefore an optimum opportunity for health interventions. This international study looked at the science around inflammatory biomarkers present in blood samples ...
Commentary: Britt Johnson, National Heart Foundation Encouraging children to actively commute to school is a public health strategy that helps to incorporate physical activity into daily life. This paper presents the results of a longitudinal investigation into the individual, socio-cultural and environmental predictors of active commuting to school amongst 9-10 ...
Aim: The benefits of promoting physical activity (PA) in counteracting the high prevalence of childhood obesity have become increasingly important in the past decade. The aim of this study was to examine the association between compliance of daily PA recommendations and the risk of being overweight or obese in preschool-aged ...
Background: Increasing school-day physical activity through policy and programs is commonly suggested to prevent obesity and improve overall child health. However, strategies that focus on school-day physical activity may not increase total physical activity if youth compensate by reducing physical activity outside of school. Purpose: Objectively measured, nationally representative physical ...
Introduction Tri-axial accelerometers record the acceleration of people’s daily activity on three orthogonal directions. One fundamental question is how to decipher and interpret the acceleration signals into meaningful information such as types of human movement. Purpose We provide statistical methods for predicting activity type and answer the following questions: 1) ...
Introduction The field of physical activity monitoring has developed rapidly over the last decade. It is becoming more common to apply accelerometer-based physical activity monitors in large population based samples. The researchers are faced with large variety of choices regarding settings including wear and non-wear criteria. As no consensus has ...
Purpose Understanding fluctuations in lifestyle indicators is important to identify relevant time periods to intervene in order to promote a healthy lifestyle; however, objective assessment of multiple lifestyle indicators has never been done using a repeated-measures design. The primary aim was, therefore, to examine between-season and within-week variation in physical ...
Background: This randomised controlled trial demonstrates the effectiveness of a value-based intervention program to encourage a physically more active lifestyle among physically inactive adults aged 30 to 50 years. The conceptual framework of the program is based on an innovative behavioural therapy called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) that aims to increase ...