The effect of implementation intentions on physical activity among obese older adults: A randomised control study

Abstract

RESULTS suggest that IIs could be appropriate to favour the maintenance of physical activity among inactive obese older adults. However, this technique seems to have limited impacts over and above common intervention activities on weight loss.

Improving everyday prospective memory performance in older adults: Comparing cognitive process and strategy training.

“…Moreover, relating our findings to the meta-analytic result for implementation intentions on health behavior by Gollwitzer and Sheeran (2006;d ϭ .59 [k ϭ 23]), our effect displays a similar strength. This is only the fourth study to investigate and reveal this effect of the implementation intention strategy on a real-life prospective memory task in old age, and therefore in concert with the previous studies (Bélanger-Gravel et al, 2013;Brom et al, 2013;Liu & Park, 2004) allowing a more generalized conclusion on the efficiency of the implementation intention strategy for older adults.…”

Bridging the gap between goal intentions and actions: a systematic review in patient populations

“…Of these, 18 articles concerned 15 studies with a patient population and stated that an implementation intention had been used [49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66]. Two articles were excluded as they described the development of an intervention, an RCT protocol and its feasibility testing [63,64].…”

“…The four included studies (reported in five articles) concerned the evaluation of the effectiveness of an if-then plan on i) medication adherence in epilepsy [51] and stroke [53,65], ii) improving exercising and behavioural change in people with chronic back [60], and iii) improving physical activity in obese older adults [66]. Table 2 outlines a summary of the interventions employed in the included studies.…”

“…44.1 (16.4), 38% male  14-Page packet of self-report measures at baseline Intervention group: n=37, mean (SD) age 41.9 (15.4), 42% male  14-Page packet of self-report measures at baseline, plus:  Self-completed intention implementation worksheet: writing down environmental cues for tablet taking using the format of an "if-then" plan on the worksheet, repeating this plan 3 times quietly, when able repeat it without reading tick a box. [51,53,60,65,66]; and data on key outcomes being available at follow-up for fewer than 85% of participants allocated to the groups [51,60,66]. Further limitations of the included studies will be discussed below.…”

“…Christiansen et al [60] Belanger et al [66] provided three sessions with a physical activity coach during which obese older adults were given information about physical activity and asked to set goals with opportunity to review these during the follow up sessions. The intervention group also developed if-then plans, both for their goals and obstacles they could foresee.…”