The authors examined the association between perceived safety of neighborhood and likelihood of exercise among adult residents of eight European cities. Data were collected by a survey of neighborhood, housing, and health conducted by the World Health Organization in 2002 and 2003. Baseline category logistic regression models were fit to ...

Energy expenditure of about 1000 kcal (4200 kJ) per week (equivalent to walking 1 hour 5 days a week) is associated with significant health benefits. Health benefits can be achieved through structured or nonstructured physical activity, accumulated throughout the day (even through short 10-minute bouts) on most days of the ...

OBJECTIVE: With increased focus on the obesity and diabetes epidemics, and the clear benefit of exercise in disease prevention and management, this study determined the lifetime prevalence of health professional advice to exercise among individuals with or at risk for diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey ...

BACKGROUND: A recent meta-analysis demonstrates a robust but small association between weekly religious attendance and longer life. However, the practical significance of this finding remains controversial. METHODS: Age specific, actuarial death rates were modified according to published odds ratios to model the additional years of life attributable to: (1) weekly ...

AIM: This paper reports a study whose main aim was to understand the correlation between stages of exercise and health-related qualities of life among overweight and obese adults in Taiwan. BACKGROUND: Regular exercise has been shown to improve health-related quality of life in the general population and among patients with ...

The value of various forms of physical activity, exercise and sport in health promotion is universally acknowledged. This research compared psychological wellbeing and physical self-perception of persons who regularly engage in various forms of physical activity, exercise and sport with a control group of non-exercisers. Different physical activities selected included ...

KORNHUBER, H.H., Human Will and cerebral Potential, Organisation of Voluntary Movement, and Exercise and Health. Abv. Exerc. Sports Physiol., Vol.8, No.4 pp.77-82, 2002. When I came to neurophysiology, a deterministic philosophy prevailed due to Freudeism. The concept of will was eliminated from psychology and jurisprudence. ...

PURPOSE: To describe conceptions, as registered by a semi-structured interview, of exercise as treatment among sixteen middle-aged patients with moderate to severe knee osteoarthritis. METHOD: Sixteen patients (aged 39-64) with symptomatic, radiographic knee osteoarthritis and previous participants in an exercise intervention, were interviewed. The qualitative data obtained were analysed using ...

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It is widely accepted that physical activity is of paramount importance to general well-being and good health. It can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, certain cancers, type 2 diabetes and obesity. Mental functioning and self-esteem can also be greatly improved by regular exercise. This article ...

Increasing physical activity is currently considered to be a possible prevention strategy for cancer, obesity, and cardiovascular disease, either alone or in combination with dietary changes. This paper presents results of a randomized trial of moderate-to-vigorous intensity exercise in middle aged, sedentary women; specifically, we report changes in and correlates ...

Regular physical activity has many positive health effects. Despite this, approximately 50% of all adults are not exercising enough to enjoy better health and may, therefore, need an alternative to vigorous physical exercise. Qigong offers a gentle way to exercise the body. A questionnaire sample of 253 participants was collected ...

BACKGROUND: The effect of changes in physical exercise on progression of musculoskeletal disability in seniors has rarely been studied. METHODS: We studied a prospective cohort annually from 1984 to 2000 using the Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ-DI). The cohort included 549 participants, 73% men, with average end-of-study age of ...

This study describes the nature of 24/7 SM slavery as practiced within the SM (sadomasochistic) community. These SM participants, who attempt to live full-time in owner-slave roles, represent a small proportion of those with SM interests. SM slaves have not been studied systematically to determine if and how they differ ...

Exercise psychology encompasses the disciplines of psychiatry, clinical and counseling psychology, health promotion, and the movement sciences. This emerging field involves diverse mental health issues, theories, and general information related to physical activity and exercise. Numerous research investigations across the past 20 years have shown both physical and psychological benefits ...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the outcome of a multidisciplinary treatment programme for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, including health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and psychosocial variables, and exercise capacity measures. DESIGN: A six-month prospective outcome study. SETTING: University outpatient rehabilitation clinic; group setting. SUBJECTS: One hundred and sixteen women fulfilling chronic ...

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is one of the most common disorders in the general population. In recent years, a marked increase in the occurrence of the disease worldwide has been noted. Intense exercise belongs to factors that are known to exacerbate symptoms of GERD. Episodes of reflux seem to be ...

Although practitioners and researchers continue to shape the emerging field of youth development, we have still not found a clear and compelling way to talk about our work to family members, the public, and policymakers. The diet-and-exercise analogy presented here compares features essential for good health with comparable features affecting ...

The purpose of this review was to: (1) locate all exercise treatment studies of fibromyalgia (FM) patients from 1988 through 2005, (2) present in tabular format the key details of each study and (3) to provide a summary and evaluation of each study for exercise and health outcomes researchers. Exercise ...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate treatment practice among general practitioners (GPs) and physiotherapists (PTs) in chronic epicondylitis of 3 months' duration or more. DESIGN: Postal survey. SETTING AND SUBJECTS: All 129 GPs and all 77 PTs at 35 primary health care centres in Uppsala County, Sweden, received the questionnaire. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: ...

ISSUE ADDRESSED: Perth, Western Australia, has the highest proportion of per capita car ownership in Australia. Despite the various health, environmental and traffic-related benefits, the uptake of alternative forms of transportation such as walking, cycling and public transport are low. METHODS: In response to a growing reliance on motorised transport, ...

Physical activity can significantly reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, some forms of cancer, osteoporosis, obesity, falls and fractures, and some mental health problems. While the benefits of physical activity are clear, there is a slightly increased risk of sudden death while exercising (compared with while sedentary), especially in ...

The primary purpose of this study was to examine differences in quality of life (QoL) between non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) survivors meeting and not meeting public health exercise guidelines. A secondary purpose was to examine exercise behavior changes across three distinct cancer-related time periods (i.e. prediagnosis, on treatment and off treatment). ...

BACKGROUND: Sedentary behaviour is a public health priority in many countries. Hundreds of community-based exercise referral schemes have been established in Europe and USA, to increase physical activity. Experimental evidence questions the effectiveness of these schemes. No previous evaluations have considered a population approach nor provide detailed information on the ...

It is known for a long time that exercise increases physical adequacy, has beneficial effects on the general health condition as well as a playing preventing role against various disease states. To decrease the risk of disease and maintain good health, the natural defense system of the organism needs to ...

BACKGROUND: It is a common belief that physical exercise at the workplace decreases subjective health complaints and reduces sickness absence, but this is not supported by previous randomized studies. AIMS: To evaluate the effectiveness of physical exercise at the workplace. METHODS: One hundred and twenty-nine employees in a community-based nursing ...

OBJECTIVE: To describe the effects of a controlled family-based health education/counseling intervention on health behaviors of children with a familial history of cardiovascular diseases (FH-CVDs). METHODS: The intervention group (IG, n=432) received 5 counseling sessions. The control groups 1 (CG1, n=200) and 2 (CG2, n=423) received no counseling. Outcome measures ...

BACKGROUND: Little is known about how health care professionals advice older people with chronic conditions about physical exercise. This study investigated exercise counseling in the context of health care as perceived by older people, and factors associated with perceived advice. DESIGN AND METHODS: Participants were 580 non-institutional 73- to 92-year-old ...

AIMS: To analyse the exercise patterns of Pacific women utilising the stage-of-exercise-adoption model, and to investigate how the pros and cons of exercising, exercise self-efficacy, self-reported health, and sociodemographic barriers to exercise influence exercise adoption. METHODS: A non-random questionnaire survey of 106 Pacific women living in the North Island of ...

Chronic hepatitis C (HCV) varies greatly in its course and outcomes. Reports of fatigue and other symptoms are common during treatment and when patients are not receiving treatment. Exercise as a form of treatment for HCV-related fatigue has had little attention in research studies, yet data from studies in closely ...

PURPOSE: Little is known about health promotion within the context of psychotherapy. The present study assessed a sample of psychologists' attitudes and behavior with their psychotherapy clients regarding smoking cessation and exercise promotion counseling. DESIGN: This is a cross-sectional survey study. SETTING: Surveys were mailed. SUBJECTS: Licensed psychologists (1000) in ...

BACKGROUND: The usual modes of incarceration have not been found to curb violent crimes significantly. A jail-based programme called the Resolve to Stop the Violence Project (RSVP) was created with the hypothesis that exposing men with a history of serious, recent and often multiple violent crimes to a certain specifiable ...

Variance in treatments prescribed by an individual provider may indicate higher quality through better matching of patients to treatments or it may indicate uncertainty about the healthcare production function. It is unknown how health plans respond to provider-level treatment variation. We use a model drawn from the portfolio selection literature, ...

The purpose of this study was to test seven constructs (prior experience of exercise, perceived health status, exercise benefits, exercise barriers, exercise self-efficacy, social support for exercise, and options for exercise) from the health promotion model (HPM) as a causal model of commitment to a plan for exercise in a ...

Elders participate in limited exercise, leading to reduced fitness and deconditioning. Regular moderate-intensity exercise/activity provides significant health benefits. As elders become more physically active, the health care burden on society will decrease. Because nurses often counsel patients on lifestyle changes, such as exercise, for improving cardiovascular health, it is important ...

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the cost utility and cost effectiveness of long-term, high-intensity exercise classes compared with usual care in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. METHODS: RA patients (n = 300) were randomly assigned to either exercise classes or UC; followup lasted for 2 years. Outcome measures were quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) ...

Athlete's Performance, an organization of specialists in the development of athleticism and injury prevention, has analyzed the seated postural demands of dental health care workers for the purpose of developing an exercise protocol appropriate to the dental profession. As with their individualized exercise prescriptions for some of the world's most ...

Many studies have reported improved health-related quality of life (HRQoL) from pre- to immediate post-orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). However, few studies have evaluated longitudinal changes over the first 2 yr post-OLT and none have simultaneously examined objective measures of health-related fitness. A total of 50 OLT recipients (32 males,18 females; ...

There is limited research on booster interventions designed to maintain/improve health outcomes following cardiac rehabilitation (CR). The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a booster intervention on health, behavioral, and clinical physical status outcomes among CR graduates randomly assigned to one of three groups: structured educational/counseling ...

OBJECTIVES: To determine whether a clinic-based physical activity promotion intervention can lead to more community-based exercise referrals by providers and higher exercise motivation in patients. DESIGN: Cluster randomized, controlled trial. SETTING: Seattle Veterans Affairs General Internal Medicine Clinic. PARTICIPANTS: Thirty-one physicians and nurse practitioners were randomized to a physical activity ...

BACKGROUND: The daily television program 'the Netherlands on the Move' (NOM-tv), which primarily targets people aged over 55 (estimated Dutch 55+ population: 4 million), was designed as part of a national campaign for promoting physical activity. The aim of the study was to identify the determinants of exercise participation and ...

OBJECTIVE: Previous research has found an association between writing about traumatic events and well-being. This study examined the effects of taking a religious perspective during a trauma-writing exercise. METHOD: Participants included 177 college students who were assigned randomly to either a conventional trauma writing or a religious trauma writing condition. ...

The role of treadmill exercise on blood glucose homeostasis in noninsulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) were studied using males between age of 45 and 60 years (X-52), who were clinically and biochemically-confirmed cases of NIDDM were taken into study group. Control group comprised of 10 males between age group of ...

Health professionals and members of the public are often interested in locating exercise information on the World Wide Web (the Web). There is a large amount of information available on the Web; however, the challenge for all people is to identify the high quality information that can be depended upon. ...

Continuously motivating people to exercise regularly is more important than finding a barriers such as lack of time, cost of equipment or gym membership, lack of nearby facilities and poor weather or night-time lighting. Our proposed system presents practicable methods of motivation through a web-based exercise prescription service. Users are ...

BACKGROUND: This study, conducted between 1998 and 2001 and analyzed in 2002 and 2003, was designed to test (1) whether exercise is an efficacious treatment for mild to moderate major depressive disorder (MDD), and (2) the dose-response relation of exercise and reduction in depressive symptoms. DESIGN: The study was a ...

Wearable technology has been used in various health-related fields to develop advanced monitoring solutions. However, the monitoring function alone cannot meet all the requirements of personal customizing machine-supported exercise that have biosignal-based controls. In this paper, we propose a new wearable unit design equipped with measurement and control functions to ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects a health education and exercise program would have in limiting weight gain and in improving fitness and psychological parameters in adults with mood or psychotic disorders. Thirty volunteers were randomly assigned to the healthy lifestyle group (HL) or a control ...

Despite a cultural and biomedical consensus about the health benefits of physical activity, most adults do not exercise regularly and their activity tends to decline further in older age. This study reports on a group of older-age Italian bicyclists who maintain extraordinary activity levels. It explores the physical and mental ...

Regular exercise is a mainstay of preventive health care for individuals of all ages. Research with older adults has shown that exercise reduces risk of chronic illness, maintains mobility and function, enhances mood, and may even improve cognitive function. For individuals with dementia, exercise programs are particularly likely to improve ...