Stroll Your Way to Well-Being: A Survey of the Perceived Benefits, Barriers, Community Support, and Stigma Associated With Pram Walking Groups Designed for New Mothers, Sydney, Australia

Currie, Janet L.; Develin, Elizabeth

doi:10.1080/07399330290112380

Cited by 55 publications

(60 citation statements)

References 9 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Albright, Maddock, and Nigg (2005) reported that only 35% of women who were active before childbirth were active after childbirth. This is despite Currie and Develin's (2002) finding that 69% of women in the postnatal period indicated that they would like to exercise more. Clearly, further research examining predictors of physical activity and inactivity in this specific and important population is well justified.…”

contrasting

confidence: 70%

Physical Activity Behavior and Role Overload in Mothers

Lovell

Butler

2014

Health Care for Women International

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

We examined physical activity stages of change, physical activity behavior, and role overload in different stages of motherhood in a predominantly Australian sample. Neither physical activity behavior, stages of physical activity change, nor role overload significantly differed across motherhood groups. Role overload was significantly higher for mothers in the contemplation, planning, and action stages of physical activity than in the maintenance stage of change. Role overload had a weak, although significant, negative correlation with leisure-time physical activity. We conclude that strategies focused upon reducing role overload or perceived role overload have only limited potential to meaningfully increase leisure-time physical activity in mothers.

show abstract

contrasting

confidence: 70%

Physical Activity Behavior and Role Overload in Mothers

Lovell

Butler

2014

Health Care for Women International

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In particular, young and midlife women generally report positive attitudes towards physical activity (Currie & Develin, 2002), but population surveys show that this population has one of the lowest levels of actual physical activity (Armstrong, Bauman, & Davis, 2000;Currie & Develin, 2002). In light of the research of Lowe et al (2002), it is conceivable that only women's instrumental attitudes to physical activity are positive.…”

Section: Implications For Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is in these middle adulthood years that women can be expected to be having and raising children, starting and developing careers, and managing their immediate and extended families. A common thread in much of the research investigating the barriers to physical activity in young and midlife women, particularly women with children under 16, is that they do not have the time to engage in regular physical activity (Anderson, 2003;Brown et al, 2001;Currie & Develin, 2002;Eyler et al, 2002;Johnson et al, 1990;Miller, Trost, & Brown, 2002 perceived barrier to physical activity that was the same for black and white, young and old, women, was lack of time due to work or school, household, and children.…”

Section: Implications For Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social identities in physical activity promotion for sedentary women

Pearson¹

2007

PsycEXTRA Dataset

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The importance of regular and life long physical activity, both from a physical and medical perspective and from a psychological well-being perspective, is well documented. Also well documented is the reduction, below sufficient levels, in physical activity participation, particularly for populations such as young and mid-life adult women. Physical activity promotion is, thus, of great importance in modern society. In this thesis, my primary aim is to develop ways to enhance the adoption and maintenance of physical activity in young and midlife women. To do so, I have utilised the theoretical conceptions from a dominant social cognitive model, the theory of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1985). Subjective norm has not been a strong predictor of intention or behaviour in research on the theory of planned behavior in physical activity contexts (Symons Downs & Hausenblas, 2005), the reasons for which have been the subject of much debate in the literature. To date, there is disagreement about the conceptualization, measurement, and importance of the variable. In this thesis, I examined the potential of the social identity approach as a basis for making subjective norm more meaningful. In this approach, rather than assessing the influence of a random collection of important others as in the original definition (Ajzen, 1985), subjective norm is conceptualised as the perceived pressure from specific reference groups relevant to self, a conceptualization more in keeping with the social identity approach (Terry & Hogg 1996). I expected that the social identity approach to subjective norms would enhance its ability to predict intentions and be the basis of an effective physical activity intervention. Specifically, I expected that physical activity norms, when presented to women from members of a shared social identity would influence both intentions and behaviour.ii In the first study, I surveyed 214 women between the ages of 25 and 45 to obtain a list of the potential reference groups that would be relevant for young and midlife women. I asked women to list their self-characteristics and then to rate them on Simon's (1997) social self-categorisation index. I sorted the self-characteristics into types, and listed the frequency and social identity potential for each type. From the most frequently listed self-characteristic types, I found that the personality-based selfcharacteristics, such as strong independent woman, and spiritual caring woman, had more social identity potential, than the role-based self-characteristics, such as wife or professional. I used these personality-based self-characteristics as the basis for my intervention study.In the second study, I conducted a 3-month physical activity study based on the social identity approach to subjective norm. The intervention was for sedentary women (25 to 45 years), who engaged in less than 150 minutes of exercise per week. In two social identity conditions (SI), I conducted a social identity-based subjective norm manipulation. The first SI condition was for women (...

show abstract

“…The link between weather and physical activity is well established. Increased bright sunshine time could increase daily walking [38] and outdoor activities [39]; higher rainfall and weed speed is likely to be associated with lower physical activity level [40][41][42][43]; temperature could have different impacts on physical activity across areas and seasons [44]. For the season during which we conducted our study in Hong Kong, we found that bright sunshine time was significantly associated with an increase in players' walking and running distance, while total rainfall, mean air temperature, and mean wind speed were negatively correlated with the distance.…”

Section: Principal Results and Comparison With Prior Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pok�mon GO and Physical Activity in Asia: Multilevel Study (Preprint)

D¹,

Ng²,

Schwanen³

et al. 2017

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background: Physical activity has long been considered an important component of a healthy lifestyle. Although many efforts have been made to promote physical activity, there has yet to be an effective global intervention in physical activity promotion. Some researchers suggest that Pokémon GO, a location-based augmented reality (AR) game, effectively promotes physical activity on a global scale, but the details of the impact are far from clear. Objective: To study the impact of Pokémon GO on players' physical activity, and how the impact varies across players with different physical activity levels. Method: We conducted a field study to investigate Pokémon GO's impacts on physical activity in five types of built environment in Hong Kong. Pokémon GO Players were asked to report their demographics through a survey, and their Pokémon GO behaviours and data of daily walking and running distance were collected from their mobile phones. Participants (n=210) were residents of Hong Kong, aged 13 to 65 years old and playing Pokémon GO using iPhone 5 or 6 series in five selected types of built environment. We measured the average daily walking and running distance over a period of 35 days, from 14 days before to 21 days after installation of Pokémon GO. Multilevel modelling was used to identify and examine the predictors -including Pokémon GO behaviours, weather; demographics and built environment -of Pokémon GO's impact on daily walking and running distance. Results: Average daily walking and running distance increased 18.1% (0.96 km) in the 21 days after participants installed Pokémon GO compared with the distance over the 14 days before installation. However, this impact attenuated over time and is estimated to disappear after 26 days (P<0.001). Multilevel models indicate that Pokémon GO has a stronger and more lasting impact on less physically active players than more physically active ones (P<0.001). Playing Pokémon GO in green space has a significant positive relationship with walking and 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 running distance (P<0.001). Moreover, results show that Pokémon GO behaviours -play Pokémon GO or not, as well as days played, weather (total rainfall, bright sunshine, mean air temperature, and mean wind speed), and demographics (age, gender, income, education, and BMI) -were associated with walking and running distance. Conclusions: Pokémon GO can efficiently activate players, especially less physically active ones, to do physical activity. Pokémon GO has the potential to build new links between humans and green space to encourage people to do physical activity. The results indicate that location-based AR games, such as Pokémon GO, have a great potential to be an effective public health intervention at the global scale.

show abstract

Stroll Your Way to Well-Being: A Survey of the Perceived Benefits, Barriers, Community Support, and Stigma Associated With Pram Walking Groups Designed for New Mothers, Sydney, Australia

Cited by 55 publications

References 9 publications

Physical Activity Behavior and Role Overload in Mothers

Physical Activity Behavior and Role Overload in Mothers

Social identities in physical activity promotion for sedentary women

Pok�mon GO and Physical Activity in Asia: Multilevel Study (Preprint)

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About