Purpose: Research on physical activity (PA) in people with heart disease tends to emphasize intrapersonal correlates while largely ignoring the potential importance of higher-level correlates within the social ecological model. Thus, the purpose of this study was to determine the relative importance of several social ecological correlates in predicting whether ...
Purpose: The potential health benefits of physical activity (PA) for women with breast cancer may be reduced by related symptoms of depression and anxiety. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between total Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) scores on depression and anxiety and PA measured ...
Purpose: Seasonal variations may influence children’s physical activity patterns. Research is needed to examine how much physical activity youth engage in across the day and how this varies between seasons to inform the development of physical activity programs. The aim of this study was to investigate seasonal changes in ...
Purpose: To examine physical activity levels in kindergarten and grade 2 in cross-sectional cohorts and a longitudinal sample.
Methods: Ninety-six kindergarten children (Mage=5y 7m, 58% boys) from 8 British Columbia schools participated in 2010-11, and 101 grade 2 children (Mage=7y 9m, 52%, boys) participated in 2012-2013. A sub-cohort of 21 children were tracked from kindergarten ...
Purpose: To analyze associations between environmental perceptions and health behaviors between children from low (LWA) and high walkability areas (HWA).
Methods: This cross-sectional study includes 102 children (11.6+/-0.7y) from Porto (Portugal) living in areas with high and low GIS-based walkability. Moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and sedentary time was ...
Purpose: Children with asthma are at greater risk of physical inactivity, obesity, and other chronic health conditions. Understanding how to promote physical activity among children with asthma has been limited by retrospective self-report methods.
Methods: Low-income, Hispanic children (N = 20) (7th-12th grade) (54% male) with chronic asthma completed seven days of ...
Purpose: Some evidence suggests an association between sedentary behavior and increased cardio-metabolic disease risk. The purposes of this study are to describe volume and pattern of school-day sedentary time, and compare school-day sedentary time across seasons in terms of volume and pattern in Swedish 2nd and 5th graders.
Methods: Volume ...
Purpose: The Mile Run/Walk test (MRW) is commonly used to assess students’ cardiovascular fitness as a component of the FITNESSGRAM.
The formula to convert MRW times into predicted VO2max incorporates Body Mass Index (BMI). This study examines whether the MRW is an appropriate tool to employ among overweight ...
Purpose: The onboard accelerometers and global positioning system (GPS) receivers on modern smartphones offer considerable promise for the unobtrusive tracking of physical activity (PA) in population research; however, the accuracy of smartphone sensors for assessing PA is uncertain. The purpose of this study was to compare estimates of PA and ...
Purpose: To examine the associations of weekday and weekend day sedentary time with depressive symptoms and explore employment status and demographic variables as moderators.
Methods: Participants (N = 884; Mean age = 46.0 SD 10.5) were recruited from neighborhoods varying by walkability and income. Participants wore Actigraph accelerometers for 7 days. Daily average sedentary time (counts ...