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Influence of Health Literacy on the Physical Activity of Working Adults: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the TRISEARCH Trial

Studies show that high health literacy (HL) can support the promotion and maintenance of healthy behavior such as physical activity (PA). However, most studies rely on subjective data. The aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between HL and PA, not only with subjectively but a...

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Autores principales: Rudolf, Kevin, Biallas, Bianca, Dejonghe, Lea A. L., Grieben, Christopher, Rückel, Lisa-Marie, Schaller, Andrea, Stassen, Gerrit, Pfaff, Holger, Froböse, Ingo
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6950634/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31817592
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16244948
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author Rudolf, Kevin
Biallas, Bianca
Dejonghe, Lea A. L.
Grieben, Christopher
Rückel, Lisa-Marie
Schaller, Andrea
Stassen, Gerrit
Pfaff, Holger
Froböse, Ingo
author_facet Rudolf, Kevin
Biallas, Bianca
Dejonghe, Lea A. L.
Grieben, Christopher
Rückel, Lisa-Marie
Schaller, Andrea
Stassen, Gerrit
Pfaff, Holger
Froböse, Ingo
author_sort Rudolf, Kevin
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description Studies show that high health literacy (HL) can support the promotion and maintenance of healthy behavior such as physical activity (PA). However, most studies rely on subjective data. The aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between HL and PA, not only with subjectively but also with objectively measured PA data. The present study is a pooled analysis of baseline data from the research association TRISEARCH (2015–2018), which focused on the HL of working adults. HL was measured by Lenartz’ questionnaire, and PA by the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ; n = 1056). A subsample (n = 124) also received accelerometers (Actigraph GT3X+) to provide more objective PA data. Partial correlations and regression models were used to investigate the relationship between HL and questionnaire- and accelerometer-derived PA. Very low and medium partial correlations could be found for HL subscales and daily PA by questionnaire (r = −0.06, p < 0.05) and accelerometer (r = 0.26, p < 0.01). No subscale of HL made a significant contribution to the amount of daily PA (all p > 0.05). Not all subscales of HL seem to have an influence on the occurrence of healthy behavior, such as PA. This should be considered when HL-based interventions are designed. Further investigation of the relationship between HL and PA is needed. Objective assessments of both HL and PA can provide additional information for this task.
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spelling pubmed-69506342020-01-16 Influence of Health Literacy on the Physical Activity of Working Adults: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the TRISEARCH Trial Rudolf, Kevin Biallas, Bianca Dejonghe, Lea A. L. Grieben, Christopher Rückel, Lisa-Marie Schaller, Andrea Stassen, Gerrit Pfaff, Holger Froböse, Ingo Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Studies show that high health literacy (HL) can support the promotion and maintenance of healthy behavior such as physical activity (PA). However, most studies rely on subjective data. The aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between HL and PA, not only with subjectively but also with objectively measured PA data. The present study is a pooled analysis of baseline data from the research association TRISEARCH (2015–2018), which focused on the HL of working adults. HL was measured by Lenartz’ questionnaire, and PA by the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ; n = 1056). A subsample (n = 124) also received accelerometers (Actigraph GT3X+) to provide more objective PA data. Partial correlations and regression models were used to investigate the relationship between HL and questionnaire- and accelerometer-derived PA. Very low and medium partial correlations could be found for HL subscales and daily PA by questionnaire (r = −0.06, p < 0.05) and accelerometer (r = 0.26, p < 0.01). No subscale of HL made a significant contribution to the amount of daily PA (all p > 0.05). Not all subscales of HL seem to have an influence on the occurrence of healthy behavior, such as PA. This should be considered when HL-based interventions are designed. Further investigation of the relationship between HL and PA is needed. Objective assessments of both HL and PA can provide additional information for this task. MDPI 2019-12-06 2019-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6950634/ /pubmed/31817592 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16244948 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Rudolf, Kevin
Biallas, Bianca
Dejonghe, Lea A. L.
Grieben, Christopher
Rückel, Lisa-Marie
Schaller, Andrea
Stassen, Gerrit
Pfaff, Holger
Froböse, Ingo
Influence of Health Literacy on the Physical Activity of Working Adults: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the TRISEARCH Trial
title Influence of Health Literacy on the Physical Activity of Working Adults: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the TRISEARCH Trial
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title_full_unstemmed Influence of Health Literacy on the Physical Activity of Working Adults: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the TRISEARCH Trial
title_short Influence of Health Literacy on the Physical Activity of Working Adults: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the TRISEARCH Trial
title_sort influence of health literacy on the physical activity of working adults: a cross-sectional analysis of the trisearch trial
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6950634/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31817592
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16244948
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