Workplace Physical Activity Intervention Programs: Costs and Benefits

[Effectiveness of physical activity intervention at workplace].

A physical activity is a key factor contributing to the improvement and maintenance of one's general health. Although this issue is by no means limited to the workplace, it is precisely the work environment that can provide the basis for keeping and reinforcing more health-conscious attitudes and lifestyles, including programs promoting a physical activity. The paper presents an analysis of the...

Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits

Perceived barriers, benefits, and motives for physical activity: two primary-care physical activity prescription programs.

This study examined whether perceived barriers, benefits, and motives for physical activity differed based on allocation to 2 different types of primary-care activity-prescription programs (pedometer-based vs. time-based Green Prescription). Eighty participants from the Healthy Steps study completed a questionnaire that assessed their perceived barriers, benefits, and motives for physical activ...

Analyzing the costs and benefits of brief intervention.

The Trial for Early Alcohol Treatment, Project TrEAT, was a randomized controlled trial of screening and brief intervention in primary care clinics. One of the few such trials to be analyzed in terms of cost-effectiveness, Project TrEAT was examined from two perspectives. The analysis from the perspective of medical care providers focused on clinic and hospital costs, contrasting the benefits t...

-Supported Physical Activity Intervention

Walking and other forms of physical activity have many health benefits, but people often fail to follow through on their own goals of being more active. To address gaps in current understanding of how to design technologysupported physical activity interventions, we conducted a randomized field experiment of a commitment device: making public announcements. In a control condition, weekly commit...