Facebook Intervention To Improve Physical Activity Level Among Youth

The "Moving Heart Program": an intervention to improve physical activity among patients with coronary heart disease.

AIM this paper reports the results of a nursing-administered theory-based intervention, the "Moving Heart Program", based on the implementation intention theory and pointed at improving physical activity adherence among coronary heart disease outpatients in Brazil. METHODS this experimental study applied assessments at baseline, 1 and 2 months after baseline. The Consolidated Standards of Rep...

Physical education's contribution to daily physical activity among middle school youth.

Little is known about the exact contribution of physical education (PE) to total daily physical activity (PA) among children and adolescents. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to describe the PA of middle school students during PE and non-PE days and determine if children would compensate for a lack of PE by increasing their PA later in the day. Two hundred seventy nine students (159 boy...

Developing a Dissemination Model to Improve Intervention Reach among West Virginia Youth Smokers

The not-on-tobacco program is an evidence-based teen smoking cessation program adopted by the American Lung Association (ALA). Although widely disseminated nationally via ALA Master Trainers, in recent years, adoption and implementation of the N-O-T program in West Virginia (WV) has slowed. WV, unfortunately, has one of the highest smoking rates in the US. Although it is a goal of public health...

Youth-Physical Activity Towards Health: evidence and background to the development of the Y-PATH physical activity intervention for adolescents

BACKGROUND Despite known benefits of regular physical activity for health and well-being, many studies suggest that levels of physical activity in young people are low, and decline dramatically during adolescence. The purpose of the current research was to gather data on adolescent youth in order to inform the development of a targeted physical activity intervention. METHODS Cross-sectional d...

Youth sports programs: contribution to physical activity.