Mental health and quality of life benefits of a pedometer-based walking intervention delivered in a primary care setting

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11510/17:10365568

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5507/ag.2017.017" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5507/ag.2017.017</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5507/ag.2017.017" target="_blank" >10.5507/ag.2017.017</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mental health and quality of life benefits of a pedometer-based walking intervention delivered in a primary care setting

Original language description

Background: Physical activity level is positively associated with mental health and health-related quality of life. Primary care providers are ideally situated to offer physical activity interventions, and pedometers are commonly used as motivational tools to increase walking. However, several recent trials of pedometer-based interventions in primary care settings neither improved patients&apos; quality of life nor reduced anxiety or depression, but these interventions only had relatively modest effects on physical activity levels. Objective: Our aim was to assess whether a pedometer-based walking intervention delivered in a primary care setting affects anxiety, depression, and health-related quality of life. Methods: A quasi-experimental, pre-post, single group study was conducted in 23 physically inactive patients from four general practices who participated in a pedometer-based intervention. The patients were administered the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and MOS 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) questionnaires before and after the 3-month intervention. Results: Following the intervention, the patients increased their walking volume by 1,676 steps per day (p &lt;.001). Both the anxiety (-1.4, p =.011) and depression (-2.4, p =.001) subscales of HADS decreased, while the physical functioning (+ 6, p =.023), social functioning (+ 9, p =.035), mental health (+ 12, p =.001), vitality (+ 12, p =.003), and general health (+ 7, p =.013) subscales of SF-36 increased. Conclusions: Providing physically inactive patients with a pedometer and encouraging them to walk more in a primary care setting was associated with lower anxiety and depression scores, and improved health-related quality of life.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30306 - Sport and fitness sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Gymnica

ISSN

2336-4912

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

47

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

138-143

UT code for WoS article

000414539000005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85031114174