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Social influences on physical activity for establishing criteria leading to exercise persistence
Despite well-documented health benefits from exercise, a study on national trends in achieving the recommended minutes of physical activity guidelines has not improved since the guidelines were published in 2008. Peer interactions have been identified as a critical factor for increasing a population...
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Public Library of Science
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9581432/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36260559 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274259 |
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author | Mema, Ensela Spain, Everett S. Martin, Corby K. Hill, James O. Sayer, R. Drew McInvale, Howard D. Evans, Lee A. Gist, Nicholas H. Borowsky, Alexander D. Thomas, Diana M. |
author_facet | Mema, Ensela Spain, Everett S. Martin, Corby K. Hill, James O. Sayer, R. Drew McInvale, Howard D. Evans, Lee A. Gist, Nicholas H. Borowsky, Alexander D. Thomas, Diana M. |
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description | Despite well-documented health benefits from exercise, a study on national trends in achieving the recommended minutes of physical activity guidelines has not improved since the guidelines were published in 2008. Peer interactions have been identified as a critical factor for increasing a population’s physical activity. The objective of this study is for establishing criteria for social influences on physical activity for establishing criteria that lead to exercise persistence. A system of differential equations was developed that projects exercise trends over time. The system includes both social and non-social influences that impact changes in physical activity habits and establishes quantitative conditions that delineate population-wide persistence habits from domination of sedentary behavior. The model was generally designed with parameter values that can be estimated to data. Complete absence of social or peer influences resulted in long-term dominance of sedentary behavior and a decline of physically active populations. Social interactions between sedentary and moderately active populations were the most important social parameter that influenced low active populations to become and remain physically active. On the other hand, social interactions encouraging moderately active individuals to become sedentary drove exercise persistence to extinction. Communities should focus on increasing social interactions between sedentary and moderately active individuals to draw sedentary populations to become more active. Additionally, reducing opportunities for moderately active individuals to engage with sedentary individuals through sedentary social activities should be addressed. |
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spelling | pubmed-95814322022-10-20 Social influences on physical activity for establishing criteria leading to exercise persistence Mema, Ensela Spain, Everett S. Martin, Corby K. Hill, James O. Sayer, R. Drew McInvale, Howard D. Evans, Lee A. Gist, Nicholas H. Borowsky, Alexander D. Thomas, Diana M. PLoS One Research Article Despite well-documented health benefits from exercise, a study on national trends in achieving the recommended minutes of physical activity guidelines has not improved since the guidelines were published in 2008. Peer interactions have been identified as a critical factor for increasing a population’s physical activity. The objective of this study is for establishing criteria for social influences on physical activity for establishing criteria that lead to exercise persistence. A system of differential equations was developed that projects exercise trends over time. The system includes both social and non-social influences that impact changes in physical activity habits and establishes quantitative conditions that delineate population-wide persistence habits from domination of sedentary behavior. The model was generally designed with parameter values that can be estimated to data. Complete absence of social or peer influences resulted in long-term dominance of sedentary behavior and a decline of physically active populations. Social interactions between sedentary and moderately active populations were the most important social parameter that influenced low active populations to become and remain physically active. On the other hand, social interactions encouraging moderately active individuals to become sedentary drove exercise persistence to extinction. Communities should focus on increasing social interactions between sedentary and moderately active individuals to draw sedentary populations to become more active. Additionally, reducing opportunities for moderately active individuals to engage with sedentary individuals through sedentary social activities should be addressed. Public Library of Science 2022-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9581432/ /pubmed/36260559 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274259 Text en https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) public domain dedication. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Mema, Ensela Spain, Everett S. Martin, Corby K. Hill, James O. Sayer, R. Drew McInvale, Howard D. Evans, Lee A. Gist, Nicholas H. Borowsky, Alexander D. Thomas, Diana M. Social influences on physical activity for establishing criteria leading to exercise persistence |
title | Social influences on physical activity for establishing criteria leading to exercise persistence |
title_full | Social influences on physical activity for establishing criteria leading to exercise persistence |
title_fullStr | Social influences on physical activity for establishing criteria leading to exercise persistence |
title_full_unstemmed | Social influences on physical activity for establishing criteria leading to exercise persistence |
title_short | Social influences on physical activity for establishing criteria leading to exercise persistence |
title_sort | social influences on physical activity for establishing criteria leading to exercise persistence |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9581432/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36260559 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274259 |
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