BACKGROUND There is a lack of understanding of work aged adults' (30-60 years old) perspectives on the motivation of physical activity versus sedentariness. This study aims to: (1) identify which socio-environmental factors motivate physical activity and/or sedentary behavior, in adults aged 30-60 years; and (2) explore how these motivators interact and combine. METHOD Fifteen work-aged adult...

BACKGROUND To develop evidence-based interventions promoting healthy active lifestyles among young children and their parents, a greater understanding is needed of the correlates of physical activity and screen time in these dyads. Physical environment features within neighborhoods may have important influences on both children and their parents. The purpose of this study was to examine the ass...

BACKGROUND Many characteristics of urban parks and neighbourhoods have been linked to patterns of physical activity, yet untangling these relationships to promote increased levels of physical activity presents methodological challenges. Based on qualitative and quantitative data, this article describes patterns of activity within urban parks and the socio-demographic characteristics of park vis...

OBJECTIVE To assess the nutritional status, food intake and physical activity patterns in schoolchildren attending 5th and 6th grade in basic schools from different socio-economic levels in the metropolitan region of Santiago. DESIGN Cross-sectional study in children 5th and 6th grade of eighteen basic schools in the metropolitan region of Santiago. SETTING Boys and girls aged 9-12 years fr...

Collaborative work is considered as a way to improve productivity and value generation in construction. However, recent research demonstrates that socio-cognitive factors related to fragmentation of specialized knowledge may hinder team performance. New methods based on theories of practice are emerging in Computer Supported Collaborative Work and organisational learning to break these knowledg...

background and objectives: childhood obesity is an increasing public health problem in iran, and there is no evidence for effective prevention strategies to date. the aim of this qualitative study was to identify and prioritise perceived potential interventions by parents and school staff to help inform the development of an obesity prevention intervention for iranian school children. materials...

Physical activity is important for health promotion and disease prevention. Effective physical activity programs for adolescents require a proper understanding of the determinants of activity levels. The main purpose of this paper was to review the scientific literature on determinants of physical activity among adolescents: demographic, biological (age, gender, socioeconomic status), and socio...

In emerging economies, the socio-economic status is a key element to evaluate social improvement as it provides an understanding of the population’s access to housing, education, health or basic services like water and electricity. The relationship between such indicators and human physical mobility has been researched mostly in areas like access to medical infrastructures and public transporta...

The paper discusses the differences between intracultural communication and intercultural communication froma socio-cognitive perspective that treats this relationship as a continuum rather than a dichotomy.Movement on the continuum, anddifferences between the two phenomena are affected by different factors that will be discussed in the paper. The hypothetical left end of the continuum is intra...