The effects of weekly motivational phone calls on the amount of leisure sports activities and changes in physical fitness
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https://doi.org/10.15561/18189172.2018.0501Keywords:
leisure sports activities, physical fitness, adults, physical activityAbstract
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate whether motivational weekly phone calls are able to promote overall and/or leisure physical activity levels and fitness in an urban population of Romania. Material: Sixty-five adult subjects (30 males and 35 females) were randomly selected and followed over the 8-month study period. Total physical activity and changes in body mass and body mass index (kg/m2) were recorded on a monthly basis. Fitness level was assessed by the participants themselves using three standardized motor tests: push-up test, 1-minute sit-up test and 3-minute step test. Results: The intervention resulted in an increase of physical activity level by approximately 70% in males and females aged 25-39 years. In those aged 40-49 years physical activity levels were enhanced by 77% in males and 18% in females. These changes were associated with improvements (25-31%; p < 0.01) in fitness levels. Changes in physical activity over the 8-month intervention period were negatively correlated with body mass index (r = - 0.721, p < 0.01). Conclusions: This study demonstrates that motivation by regular phone calls was highly effective in increasing leisure sports activities and improving fitness levels in young and middle-aged adults of both sexes.Downloads
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Eyre H, Kahn R, Robertson RM, American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association and American Heart Association. Collaborative Writing Committee. Preventing cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes: a common agenda for the American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association, and the American Heart Association. Diabetes Care, 2004; 27(7):1812-24. doi:10.2337/diacare.27.7.1812
Gislaine V, Valter CB, Natália BM, Valdomiro de O, Oldemar M, Wagner de C. Association between physical activity and quality of life in the elderly: a systematic review, 2000–2012. Revista Brasileira Psiquiatria, 2014; 36(1):76-88. doi:10.1590/1516-4446-2012-0895
Hőrnquist J.O. Quality of life: concept and assessment. Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine, 1990; 18(1): 69–79.
Tudor ID, Tudor M. Leisure Sports Activities Impact on Adults Personal Development and Quality of Life. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013; 84:1090–1094. doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.06.705
Brown M, Sinacore DR, Host HH. The relationship of strength to function in the order adult. Journal of Gerontology, 50A, 1995; 50:113–119. doi:10.1093/gerona/50A.Special_Issue.55
Kenneth H. Notes on Physical Fitness. Institute for Aerobics research, Dallas; 2011.
Jagiełło W, Jagiełło M, Kalina RM, Barczynski BJ, Litwiniuk A, Klimczak J. Properties of body composition of female representatives of the Polish national fencing team – the sabre event. Biology of Sport, 2017;34:401–6. doi:10.5114/biolsport.2017.70526
Global Recommendations on Physical Activity For Health, World Health Organization. [Internet] 2018 Jan 2 [updated 2018 Jan 10; cited 2018 Jan 31]. Available from: http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/44399/1/9789241599979_eng.pdf
World Health Organization Romania Physical Activity Factsheet. Monitoring and surveillance. [Internet] 2018 Jan 2 [updated 2018 Jan 10; cited 2018 Jan 31]. Available from: http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/288122/ROMANIA-Physical-Activity-Factsheet.pdf?ua
Epuran M. Motricity and psychism in bodily activities. FEST Bucharest Publish House; 2011. (in Romanian)
Alothman S, Yahya A, Rucker J, Kluding PM. Effectiveness of interventions for promoting objectively measured physical activity of adults with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 2017; 14(5):1–25. doi:10.1123/jpah.2016-0528
Goode AD, Reeves MM, Eakin E.G. Telephone-delivered interventions for physical activity and dietary behavior change: an updated systematic review. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2012; 42(1):81-8.doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2011.08.025
Niculescu M, Georgescu L, Marinescu A. Physical conditions and health. Publish House Universitaria; 2006. (in Romanian)
Canadian Public Health Association Project, Fitness Testing at Home – Cheap and Easy. [Internet] 2018 Jan 2 [updated 2018 Jan 10; cited 2018 Jan 31]. Available from: http://www.topendsports.com/testing/tests/home-step.htm
Tuomilehto J, Lindstrom J, Eriksson JG. et al. Prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus by changes in lifestyle among subjects with impaired glucose tolerance. The New England Journal of Medicine, 2001; 344(18): 1343–50. doi:10.1056/NEJM200105033441801
Mensink M, Blaak EE, Wagenmakers AJ. et al. Lifestyle intervention and fatty acid metabolism in glucose-intolerant subjects. Obesity Research, 2005; 13(8):1354–1362. doi:10.1038/oby.2005.164
Diabetes Prevention Program Study Group. Reduction in the incidence of type 2 diabetes with lifestyle intervention or metformin. The New England Journal of Medicine, 2002; 346:393–403.
Soja A.M, Zwisler AD, Frederiksen M. et al. Use of intensified comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation to improve risk factor control in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus or impaired glucose tolerance: the randomized Danish Study of impaired glucose metabolism in the settings of cardiac rehabilitation (DANSUK) study. American Heart Journal, 2007; 153(4):621–628. doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2007.01.030
Karapolat H, Eyigor S, Zoghi M. et al. Comparison of hospital-supervised exercise versus home-based exercise in patients after orthotopic heart transplantation: effects on functional capacity, quality of life, and psychological symptoms. Transplantation Proceedings, 2007; 39(5), 1586–8. doi:10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.01.079
Burtscher M, Gatterer H, Kuncziky H, Brendstätter E, Ulmer H. Supervised exercise in patients with impaired fasting glucose: impact on exercise capacity. Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, 2009; 19:394–398. doi:10.1097/JSM.0b013e3181b8b6dc
Philippaerts RM, Lefevre J, Delvaux K, Thomis M, Vanreusel B, Vanden EB, Claessens AL, Lysens R, Beuneng G. Associations between daily physical activity and physical fitness in Flemish males: a cross-sectional analysis, American Journal of Human Biology, 1999; 11:587–597. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1520-6300
Myers J, Prakash M, Froelicher V, Do D, Partington S, Atwood JE. Exercise capacity and mortality among men referred for exercise testing. The New England Journal of Medicine, 2002; 346:793–801. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa011858
Bomberg E, Birch L, Endenburg N, German AJ, Neilson J, Seligman H, Takashima G, Daz MJ. The financial costs, behavior and psychology of obesity: a one health analysis. Journal of Comparative Pathology, 2017;156:310–325. doi:10.1016/j.jcpa.2017.03.007
Gatterer H, Ulmer H, Dzien A, Somavilla M, Burtscher M. High cardiorespiratory fitness is more beneficial in pre-diabetic men than women. Clinics, 2011; 66(5):747–51. doi:10.1590/S1807-59322011000500007
Bădău D, Prebeg G, Mitić D, Bădău A. Fitness index and VO2max of physical education students. Science, Movement and Health, 2015; 15(2):246-–251.
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Badicu G, Gatterer H, Balint L, Burtscher M. The effects of weekly motivational phone calls on the amount of leisure sports activities and changes in physical fitness. Pedagogics, psychology, medical-biological problems of physical training and sports. 2018;22(5):226-30. https://doi.org/10.15561/18189172.2018.0501
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