Does having a pet influence the physical activity of their young female owners?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41210%2F19%3A80001" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41210/19:80001 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11510/19:10401642

Result on the web

<a href="https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-019-7962-z" target="_blank" >https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-019-7962-z</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7962-z" target="_blank" >10.1186/s12889-019-7962-z</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Does having a pet influence the physical activity of their young female owners?

Original language description

Many studies have shown that having a dog has an impact on the increase in physical activity of people. However, what is often not taken into account in many such studies is owning of other pets. The aim of this study was to compare PA levels between animal owners and nonowners and to research potential differences between owners of different kinds of animals. 111 young females of mean age 21years enrolled in this cross-sectional study. Czech version of short International physical activity questionnaire was used to assess PA level, supplemented with a question about whether they owned an animal and what kind. People who owned a pet had higher frequency and duration of moderate physical activity and spent more met min. This difference has projected into total PA duration and also into calories burned in a week. Furthermore, a statistically significant difference between subgroups of animal owners was also confirmed for MPA and total PA in favour of horse owners. Animal owners generally reported hi

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30304 - Public and environmental health

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

ISSN

1471-2458

e-ISSN

1661-7827

Volume of the periodical

19

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

1-7

UT code for WoS article

000502798000003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85076412231