Interventions to Reduce Sedentary Behavior

Health Opportunities with Physical Exercise (HOPE): social contextual interventions to reduce sedentary behavior in urban settings.

Physical activity interventions targeting social and physical environments of the urban poor hold promise in improving health outcomes in underserved communities. This study randomly assigned overweight, sedentary, economically disadvantaged adults to one of three intervention conditions at The Hope and Healing Center, a large inner-city health facility providing numerous options for exercise. ...

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School-based Interventions to Reduce Sedentary Behaviour in Children: A Systematic Review

Introduction Prolonged, uninterrupted periods of sedentary time may be associated with increased risk of Type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality even if the minimum recommended levels of daily physical activity are achieved. It is reported that children spend approximately 80% of their day engaged in sedentary behaviours. Since children spend a large portion of their wa...

Interventions designed to reduce sedentary behaviours in young people: a review of reviews.

BACKGROUND Leisure time is increasingly spent in sedentary pursuits such as screen-viewing (eg, television/DVD viewing and computer use), motorised travel, school/work and sitting-based socialising (eg, social media and chatting). Sedentary screen time, particularly TV, appears to play an important role in the aetiology of obesity due to its co-occurrence with other unhealthy behaviours such as...

Interventions with potential to reduce sedentary time in adults: systematic review and meta-analysis.

CONTEXT Time spent in sedentary behaviours (SB) is associated with poor health, irrespective of the level of physical activity. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of interventions which included SB as an outcome measure in adults. METHODS Thirteen databases, including The Cochrane Library, MEDLINE and SPORTDiscus, trial registers and reference lists, were searched for randomised...