BACKGROUND currently, assessment of outcomes after joint replacement is predominantly centred on impairment and activity limitation (e.g. walking), with little consideration of participation restriction. METHOD structured telephone interviews about participation in leisure activities were conducted with 56 total hip replacement (THR) and 60 total knee replacement (TKR) patients before and 1 y...

Leisure travel within the European Union (EU) contributes significantly to carbon footprint of global tourism. Distance travelled is a main factor in this impact, but some its determinants remain unexplored. We examined role tourists' holiday preferences shaping leisure EU by calculating demand and impact indicators associated with eight styles. find substantial equivalent for visiting relative...

BACKGROUND Participation in leisure activities strongly associates with health and well-being. Little research has explored the relationship between participation in leisure activities and constraints on breastfeeding mothers during leisure activities. The purposes of this study are: 1) to investigate constraints on breastfeeding mothers during leisure activities and participation in leisure ac...

This commentary argues that an integrated study of leisure, physical activity and health is necessary for preparing professionals for diverse careers in the broad field known as health promotion. Contemporary perspectives of health and leisure share many common features (Wankel, 1994). It is impossible to study leisure in any comprehensive way without addressing the nature of health and well-be...

Leisure in the daily lives of older adults plays an important role aging well. However, practice social distancing and stay-at-home orders during COVID-19 pandemic has severely hindered leisure involvement. We knew little about how reduction participation affected adults’ lifestyles. The purpose study was to explore adapted times when their opportunities were constrained. Data collected through...

PURPOSE To explore the perceptions of young people with a spinal cord injury or disease (SCI/D) about their leisure participation at school, home and in the community. METHODS The study used narrative enquiry to elicit the unique leisure stories of three participants aged 8-11 years with a SCI/D during two face-to-face, semi-structured interviews. Pictorial data about participants' interperso...

BACKGROUND While considerable attention has been given to quantifying leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) among subpopulations, less attention has focused on the perception of the experience as leisure. The current study describes the prevalence of leisure-like experiences during LTPA among college students. We describe the social contexts and activity settings that contribute to participant ...

despite the interest in sport and physical activities in iran, its role in spending the leisure time of various groups in the society is insignificant. therefore, the aim of this research is to study and identify the patterns of spending the leisure time with emphasize on physical activities and sport at ilam university. this study is a descriptive and a kind of field study. the statistical soc...

Although activity participation is promoted as cognitively protective, critical questions of causality remain. In a cohort followed every 5 years from age 75 to 85 years, potential reciprocal associations between level and change in leisure activity participation and level and change in cognitive abilities were examined. Participants in the Glostrup 1914 Cohort, a longitudinal study of aging, c...

This paper explores the future opportunities for combine ambient e-service with leisure industry. Contrast to traditional leisure service delivery method, our proposed service innovation focus on the bottom-up collaborative solutions which enable leisure activity participants to cooperate with nearby users and encourage information sharing and experience co-creation. We introduce a collaborativ...