OBJECTIVES to explore associations between customary physical activity and three longitudinal outcomes: 12-year all-cause mortality, 12-year disease-specific mortality and 8-year change in general practitioner and personal social service use. DESIGN longitudinal study. SUBJECTS 1042 people originally aged 65 and over randomly sampled from general practitioner lists in Nottingham, UK. METH...

This study examined the effectiveness of an intervention to increase levels of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA) during girls' physical education lessons. Two Year 7 classes (age 11-12 years) were randomly appointed to control and experimental groups. Both followed the same six-lesson unit of gymnastics with identical lesson objectives. The experimental class teacher inclu...

background: numerous benefits of physical activity are well-known for the prevention and treatment of various diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and cancers. however, the status of physical activities among women remains noticeably less than the recommended level. considering the importance of the spouses’ participation in the promotion of women’s health, this study exa...

BACKGROUND The use of physical punishment is controversial. No studies have comprehensively examined the relationship between physical punishment and several physical health conditions in a nationally representative sample. The current study investigated possible associations between harsh physical punishment (ie, pushing, grabbing, shoving, slapping, and hitting) in the absence of more severe ...

The relationship between physical activity and health-related physical fitness was evaluated in 282 Taiwanese adolescents 12-14 years of age. The subjects were randomly selected from the 7th, 8th and 9th grades in two junior high schools in Taiwan. Physical activity was estimated as total daily energy expenditure and energy expenditure in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity from 24-hour acti...

abstract background: a wealth of study shows that increasing rbmi accompanies with physical inactivity, consequently. the aims of this study were determining the distribution of daily physical activity amount by gender in obese and overweight students methods: this is a cross-sectional descriptive study carried out to determine the distribution of daily physical activity level by genders and re...

background : lack of physical activity is the fourth common cause of human death. given the increased rate of sedentary life style among employees, the aim of this study was to evaluate physical activity status of governmental employees in changing stage based on the transtheoretical model (ttm) in hamadan, iran, in 2014. methods: this descriptive-analytical study was performed on 1200 governme...