Search Results - Physical Activity Health Alliance

Brief Interventions: Improving Patient Interactions Training

Last Updated: 19/07/2010

A two‐day introductory course aimed at professionals working one‐to‐one with patients in a physical activity setting.

What is this? training
What is it about? brief intervention
Where is it relevant? UK
Start date: 14/09/2010
End date: 15/09/2010
Where is this happening? Loughborough University

Let's Get Moving: Commissioning Guidance.

Last Updated: 02/04/2010

This commissioning guidance sets out an evidence-based behaviour change model for physical activity.

What is this? guidance
What is it about? exercise referral health care professionals brief intervention
Where is it relevant? England
Tagged with: Primary care Behaviour Change
When was this published? 01/09/2010

Promoting Physical Activity Amongst Adolescent Girls

Last Updated: 26/10/2009

Review of interventions to increase physical activity for adolescent girls.

What is this? journal article
What is it about? physical activity teenage girls brief intervention physical education
Where is it relevant? Rest of World
Tagged with: girls on the move
When was this published? 01/02/2009

After-School All-Stars: Providing Structured Health and Physical Activity Programs in Urban Environment

Last Updated: 26/10/2009

Review of intervention to increase physical activity levels in schools.

What is this? journal article
What is it about? brief intervention physical activity level health promotion exercise classes
Where is it relevant? Rest of World
When was this published? 01/10/2009

Fitness Industry Association

Last Updated: 26/10/2009

Official website of the Fitness Industry Association (FIA).

What is this? professional support materials
What is it about? physical activity sports and leisure facilities sports and leisure professionals brief intervention
Where is it relevant? Scotland England Wales Northern Ireland
When was this published? 01/01/2009

Institutionalization of a School Health Promotion Program: Background and Rationale of the CATCH-ON Study

Last Updated: 26/10/2009

Study that investigates how a physical activity intervention in institutionalised after the trial has ended.

What is this? journal article
What is it about? physical activity schools food physical education brief intervention
Where is it relevant? Rest of World
When was this published? 01/08/2003

School-based physical activity programs for promoting physical activity and fitness in children and adolescents aged 6-18

Last Updated: 26/10/2009

Review includes 26 school-based intervention studies that aimed to increase physical activity for children and adolescents.

What is this? report
What is it about? schools brief intervention children young people physical activity level teachers physical education BMI
Where is it relevant? Rest of World
When was this published? 01/01/2009

Effects of Physical Activity Interventions in Youth: Review and Synthesis

Last Updated: 15/10/2009

Article that reviews the current literature on interventions to increase physical activity levels in youth.

What is this? journal article
What is it about? physical activity level young people brief intervention children
Where is it relevant? Rest of World
When was this published? 01/11/2008

Long-Term Effects of a Physical Activity Intervention in High School Girls

Last Updated: 14/10/2009

Study to investigate the long-term effects of a physical activity intervention on adolescent girls.

What is this? journal article
What is it about? teenage girls brief intervention physical activity physical education sports and leisure facilities teachers
Where is it relevant? Rest of World
When was this published? 01/10/2007

Environmental Interventions for Eating and Physical Activity: A Randomised Controlled Trial in Middle Schools

Last Updated: 14/10/2009

A study that investigates the effect of an intervention focusing on environment, policy and social marketing on physical activity and fat intake in adolescents.

What is this? journal article
What is it about? young people physical activity level healthy eating physical activity BMI fat intake brief intervention
Where is it relevant? Rest of World
When was this published? 01/04/2003

Promoting Physical Activity in Middle School Girls: Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls

Last Updated: 14/10/2009

Study that assesses the efficacy of an intervention that aimed to increase access, support and incentives for participation in physical activity.

What is this? journal article
What is it about? teenage girls schools secondary schools brief intervention physical activity level sports and leisure facilities walking
Where is it relevant? Rest of World
When was this published? 01/03/2008

Chick Clique: Persuasive Technology to Motivate Girls to Exercise

Last Updated: 13/10/2009

A report on the effect of a preventative health cell phone application to motivate adolescent girls to participate in physical activity.

What is this? research
What is it about? physical activity exercise walking teenage girls brief intervention
Where is it relevant? Rest of World
When was this published? 01/04/2006

Project Destiny: Initiating Physical Activity for Nonathletic Girls Through Sport

Last Updated: 13/10/2009

Project Destiny aimed to develop physical activity and sport programmes for non-athletic females, in order to increase physical activity participation.

What is this? journal article
What is it about? physical activity levels sport teenage girls brief intervention
Where is it relevant? Rest of World
When was this published? 01/01/2004

Impact of Promoting Lifestyle Activity for Youth (PLAY) on Children’s Physical Activity

Last Updated: 13/10/2009

Study that investigates the impact of a school-based intervention on physical activity levels and BMI.

What is this? journal article
What is it about? brief intervention young people physical activity levels BMI
Where is it relevant? Rest of World
When was this published? 01/10/2003

The Energy Project- A Creative Journey to Activate and Energise Girls in School

Last Updated: 13/10/2009

Reports summarising the effects of an intervention that attempted to increase adolescent girls energy expenditure both in and outside of P.E. lessons.

What is this? report
What is it about? physical education physical activity teenage girls energy expenditure brief intervention dance
Where is it relevant? England
When was this published? 01/01/2008

Four Commonly Used Methods to Increase Physical Activity (PH2)

Last Updated: 12/10/2009

Four commonly used methods to increase physical activity: brief interventions in primary care, exercise referral schemes, pedometers and community-based exercise programmes for walking and cycling.

What is this? guidance
What is it about? health care professionals walking exercise referral brief intervention cycling
Where is it relevant? UK
Tagged with: NICE
When was this published? 01/03/2006

GO GIRLS!: Results From a Nutrition and Physical Activity Program for Low-Income, Overweight African American Adolescent Females

Last Updated: 08/10/2009

Study that investigates the efficacy of an intervention designed for inner-city, overweight, African-American adolescent women.

What is this? journal article
What is it about? teenage girls nutrient intakes physical activity level brief intervention overweight weight loss cooking skills black and minority ethnic groups
Where is it relevant? Rest of World
When was this published? 01/10/2000

A controlled evaluation of a School-based Intervention to Promote Physical Activity Among Sedentary Adolescent Females: Project FAB

Last Updated: 05/10/2009

Study that evaluated the efficacy of a school based intervention designed to increase adolescent females physical activity levels.

What is this? journal article
What is it about? physical activity teenage girls physical fitness brief intervention BMI exercise activity levels benefits of physical activity
Where is it relevant? Rest of World
When was this published? 01/04/2004

Goals and Intentions Mediate efficacy Beliefs and Declining Physical Activity in High School Girls

Last Updated: 05/10/2009

Study that investigated the naturally occurring goal setting and dissatisfaction with current physical activity level, and the effect of these intentions and motivations on participation in an adolescent sample.

What is this? journal article
What is it about? physical activity level young people brief intervention black and minority ethnic groups
Where is it relevant? Rest of World
When was this published? 01/12/2006

Adolescent Patterns of Physical Activity: Differences by Gender, Day, and Time of Day

Last Updated: 05/10/2009

Study that investigated the presence of any differences in activity levels that may be related to gender, day, time of day and body mass index (BMI).

What is this? journal article
What is it about? physical activity BMI young people active travel brief intervention
Where is it relevant? Rest of World
When was this published? 01/06/2005