Social relationships and the importance of community-based fitness programs (CBFP)

Barragan, Cassandra

doi:10.1080/08952841.2021.1915685

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“…The effects of the interventions on social participation, however, were not as obvious (53.3% of quantitative studies reported positive associations). In the qualitative studies, participants reported that involvement in the programs gave them the opportunity to get out and be among other people with similar experiences ( 32 , 35 ), feel more social engagement and social support ( 36 , 37 ), be more socially connected ( 38 , 39 ), and expand their communication beyond the group exercise ( 39 ). In the participants' opinion, physical activity programs also helped them to improve their physical performance in everyday life (e.g., strength, endurance, balance, coordination) ( 32 , 35 , 37 , 39 , 40 ).…”

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Interventions simultaneously promoting social participation and physical activity in community living older adults: A systematic review

Tcymbal

Abu‐Omar

Hartung

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundIn recent years, there has been a global trend toward an increase in life expectancy and the proportion of elderly people among the population. In this regard, it becomes important to promote active and healthy aging. Physical inactivity and social isolation are both risk factors of many chronic illnesses and highly prevalent in older adults. This challenges communities to develop interventions that reduce these risk factors among elderly populations. The main aims of this study were to summarize community-based interventions that aim to simultaneously promote social participation and physical activity in older adults and to examine their effects.MethodsWe performed a systematic review based on the PRISMA standards. Literature searches were conducted in six scientific databases in July 2021. Articles were included if they had an interventional design, focused on older adults living in the community and measured social participation and physical activity as an outcome. The data were summarized narratively due to the heterogeneity of studies and the variety of outcome measures.ResultsOverall, 46 articles published in English were included. The studies were grouped in (1) interventions with main focus on physical activity promotion; (2) social activities that included a physical activity component; (3) health behavior interventions/ health education interventions; (4) multicomponent interventions; (5) environmental interventions. The majority of the reviewed studies reported positive effects of interventions on physical activity and/or social participation. No study reported negative effects. Analysis of quantitative studies showed that multicomponent interventions have great positive effects on both outcomes. In qualitative studies positive effects were found regardless of intervention type.ConclusionThis review summarizes the evidence about the effects of community-based interventions that aim to promote social participation and physical activity in older adults. Multicomponent interventions seem to be most suitable for simultaneous promotion of physical activity and social participation. However, high variability in measurement methods used to assess both social participation and physical activity in the included studies made it difficult to compare studies and to indicate the most effective.Systematic review registrationwww.crd.york.ac.uk, identifier: PROSPERO [CRD42021268270].

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interventions simultaneously promoting social participation and physical activity in community living older adults: A systematic review

Tcymbal

Abu‐Omar

Hartung

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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“…The community-based nature of CF and DEF training likely contributed to some of the improvements we observed. In fact, community-based or group fitness programs have been shown to foster a sense of belonging and foster other health benefits ( 24 – 27 ). The sense of community has been shown to be one of the most appreciated benefits of individuals engaged in CF training ( 11 ).…”

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Influence of CrossFit and Deep End Fitness training on mental health and coping in athletes

Cansler,

Heidrich,

Whiting

et al. 2023

Front. Sports Act. Living

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Physical exercise is known to improve mental health. Athletes can experience unique physical and emotional stressors, which can deteriorate mental health and cognitive function. Training apathy can lead to cognitive dissonance and further degrade performance by promoting maladaptive, avoidance coping strategies. Introduction of psychosocial and training variables, such as those used in CrossFit (CF) and other community-based fitness programs with strong peer support have been shown to help reduce training apathy and negative affect. Here, we explored whether addition of psychophysiological variation, experienced as “hunger for air” during underwater breath-hold exercises, could provide unique mental health benefits for athletes. We studied the influence of CF and Deep End Fitness (DEF), a community-based underwater fitness program, on several outcome measures of mental health and emotional well-being in volunteer athletes. We observed a significant reduction in stress scores of both the control CF training group and the experimental DEF group. We found that DEF produced a significant improvement in positive affect while CF training did not. Further supportive of our hypothesis that the psychological and biological stressors experienced in underwater, breath-hold training cause positive adaptive changes and benefits, DEF training uniquely increased problem-based coping. While our observations demonstrate both CF and DEF training can improve mental health in athletes, DEF produced additional, unique benefits to positive coping and attitudes of athletes. Future studies should further evaluate the broader benefits of community-based, underwater training programs on psychological and physiological health in athletes and the public.

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“…Literature on the role of social relations in health promotion, the focal area of this report, often highlights the positive aspects of social networks (e.g., Barragan, 2021;Berkmann, 1995;Donev et al, 2008). By combining the aforementioned knowledge of ambivalent social influences on health outcomes with insights from research on health campaigns, we provide a broader picture of how positive and negative social aspects should be considered in health promotion.…”

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The Ambivalent Role of Social Aspects in Health Promotion

Stehr

Rossmann

Kremer

et al. 2022

EJHC

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Through various mechanisms such as social comparison, social control, and social support, social networks may impose both positive and negative effects on people’s health. The purpose of this brief research report is to highlight the role of social aspects in health promotion in the context of evidence-based communication strategies to promote physical activity among older adults in Germany. Results are based on a two-study formative research project, combining 20 semi-structured interviews with a telephone survey of a representative sample of 1,001 older adults. They show that interpersonal communication is an important source of health information. However, a strong normative influence of the social network may also undermine self-determined motivation to be physically active and therefore decrease activity levels in the long-term. In contrast, feeling related to others and being able to exercise together with other people can facilitate physical activity for older adults, which underlines the ambivalent role of social aspects. Hence, (interpersonal) communication aiming at the promotion of physical activity among older adults should support their perceived autonomy by explaining potential health and social consequences of the behaviour, providing choices, and acknowledging individual barriers and facilitators such as (lack of) sports companions.

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Social relationships and the importance of community-based fitness programs (CBFP)

Cited by 8 publications

References 53 publications

Interventions simultaneously promoting social participation and physical activity in community living older adults: A systematic review

Interventions simultaneously promoting social participation and physical activity in community living older adults: A systematic review

Influence of CrossFit and Deep End Fitness training on mental health and coping in athletes

The Ambivalent Role of Social Aspects in Health Promotion

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