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Holistic physical exercise training improves physical literacy among physically inactive adults: a pilot intervention study
BACKGROUND: Physical literacy (PL), given as a multidimensional construct, is considered a person’s capacity and commitment to a physically active lifestyle. We investigated the effect of a holistic physical exercise training on PL among physically inactive adults. METHODS: A non-randomised controll...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6458734/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30971234 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6719-z |
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author | Holler, Peter Jaunig, Johannes Amort, Frank-Michael Tuttner, Silvia Hofer-Fischanger, Kathrin Wallner, Dietmar Simi, Helmut Müller, Alexander van Poppel, Mireille Nicoline Maria Moser, Othmar |
author_facet | Holler, Peter Jaunig, Johannes Amort, Frank-Michael Tuttner, Silvia Hofer-Fischanger, Kathrin Wallner, Dietmar Simi, Helmut Müller, Alexander van Poppel, Mireille Nicoline Maria Moser, Othmar |
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description | BACKGROUND: Physical literacy (PL), given as a multidimensional construct, is considered a person’s capacity and commitment to a physically active lifestyle. We investigated the effect of a holistic physical exercise training on PL among physically inactive adults. METHODS: A non-randomised controlled study was conducted. Thirty-one physically inactive adults in the intervention group (IG; 81% females, 44 ± 16 years) participated in a holistic physical exercise training intervention once weekly for 15 weeks. A matched, non-exercising control group (CG) consisted of 30 physically inactive adults (80% female, 45 ± 11 years). PL, compliance and sociodemographic parameters were measured. PL was evaluated by a questionnaire, covering five domains: physical activity behaviour, attitude towards a physically active lifestyle, exercise motivation, knowledge and self-confidence/self-efficacy. Data were analysed using ANCOVA models, adjusted for age, gender and BMI at baseline. RESULTS: At post-training intervention, the IG showed significant improvements in PL (p = 0.001) and in the domains physical activity behaviour (p = 0.02) and exercise self-confidence/self-efficacy (p = 0.001), with no changes overserved for the CG regarding PL and those domains. No intervention effect were found for the other three domains, i.e. attitude, knowledge and motivation. Additionally, for the IG baseline BMI was identified to be positively correlated with physical exercise-induced improvements in PL (β = 0.51, p = 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: The results from this study are very useful for further public health activities, which aim at helping physically inactive adults to adopt a physically active lifestyle as well as for the development of further PL intervention strategies. This pilot-study was a first attempt to measure PL in inactive adults. Yet, a validated measurement tool is still not available. Further research is necessary to determine the psychometric properties for this PL questionnaire. TRIAL REGISTRATION: German Clinical Trials Register (DRKS), DRKS00013991, date of registration: 09.02.2018, retrospectively registered. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12889-019-6719-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-64587342019-04-19 Holistic physical exercise training improves physical literacy among physically inactive adults: a pilot intervention study Holler, Peter Jaunig, Johannes Amort, Frank-Michael Tuttner, Silvia Hofer-Fischanger, Kathrin Wallner, Dietmar Simi, Helmut Müller, Alexander van Poppel, Mireille Nicoline Maria Moser, Othmar BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Physical literacy (PL), given as a multidimensional construct, is considered a person’s capacity and commitment to a physically active lifestyle. We investigated the effect of a holistic physical exercise training on PL among physically inactive adults. METHODS: A non-randomised controlled study was conducted. Thirty-one physically inactive adults in the intervention group (IG; 81% females, 44 ± 16 years) participated in a holistic physical exercise training intervention once weekly for 15 weeks. A matched, non-exercising control group (CG) consisted of 30 physically inactive adults (80% female, 45 ± 11 years). PL, compliance and sociodemographic parameters were measured. PL was evaluated by a questionnaire, covering five domains: physical activity behaviour, attitude towards a physically active lifestyle, exercise motivation, knowledge and self-confidence/self-efficacy. Data were analysed using ANCOVA models, adjusted for age, gender and BMI at baseline. RESULTS: At post-training intervention, the IG showed significant improvements in PL (p = 0.001) and in the domains physical activity behaviour (p = 0.02) and exercise self-confidence/self-efficacy (p = 0.001), with no changes overserved for the CG regarding PL and those domains. No intervention effect were found for the other three domains, i.e. attitude, knowledge and motivation. Additionally, for the IG baseline BMI was identified to be positively correlated with physical exercise-induced improvements in PL (β = 0.51, p = 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: The results from this study are very useful for further public health activities, which aim at helping physically inactive adults to adopt a physically active lifestyle as well as for the development of further PL intervention strategies. This pilot-study was a first attempt to measure PL in inactive adults. Yet, a validated measurement tool is still not available. Further research is necessary to determine the psychometric properties for this PL questionnaire. TRIAL REGISTRATION: German Clinical Trials Register (DRKS), DRKS00013991, date of registration: 09.02.2018, retrospectively registered. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12889-019-6719-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2019-04-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6458734/ /pubmed/30971234 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6719-z Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Holler, Peter Jaunig, Johannes Amort, Frank-Michael Tuttner, Silvia Hofer-Fischanger, Kathrin Wallner, Dietmar Simi, Helmut Müller, Alexander van Poppel, Mireille Nicoline Maria Moser, Othmar Holistic physical exercise training improves physical literacy among physically inactive adults: a pilot intervention study |
title | Holistic physical exercise training improves physical literacy among physically inactive adults: a pilot intervention study |
title_full | Holistic physical exercise training improves physical literacy among physically inactive adults: a pilot intervention study |
title_fullStr | Holistic physical exercise training improves physical literacy among physically inactive adults: a pilot intervention study |
title_full_unstemmed | Holistic physical exercise training improves physical literacy among physically inactive adults: a pilot intervention study |
title_short | Holistic physical exercise training improves physical literacy among physically inactive adults: a pilot intervention study |
title_sort | holistic physical exercise training improves physical literacy among physically inactive adults: a pilot intervention study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6458734/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30971234 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6719-z |
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