Walking Alongside my Relations

“Walking alongside:” collaborative practices in mental health and substance use care

BACKGROUND Although the importance of collaboration is well established as a principle in research and in theory, what it actually means for practitioners to collaborate in practice, to be partners in a collaborative relationship, has thus far been given less attention. The aim of this study was to identify key characteristics of the ways in which mental health practitioners collaborate with se...

Multiple walking speed-frequency relations are predicted by constrained optimization.

A person constrained to walk at a given speed v on a treadmill, chooses a particular step frequency f and step length d=v/f. Testing over a range of speeds generates a speed-frequency (v-f) relationship. This relationship is commonly posited as a basic feature of human gait. It is often further posited that this curve follows from minimum energy cost strategy. We observed that individuals walki...

What is my walking neighbourhood? A pilot study of English adults' definitions of their local walking neighbourhoods

BACKGROUND Existing measures of perceptions of the environment associated with walking commonly rely on providing a definition of 'neighbourhood', e.g. 1 mile area around the home. We have little understanding of how these examples relate with adults' own geographical definitions of their neighbourhood area. Our pilot study examined the congruence between definitions used in environmental quest...

painting and essay competition: my city, my neighborhood

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O-23: "Caring My Family Integrity"