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Interventions to increase physical activity among aging adults: A meta-analysis

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Conn, VS; Valentine, JC; Cooper, HM
Published in: Annals of Behavioral Medicine
January 1, 2002

Objectives: This review applied meta-analytic procedures to integrate primary research findings that test interventions to increase activity among aging adults. Methods: We performed extensive literature searching strategies and located published and unpublished intervention studies that measured the activity behavior of at least five participants with a mean age of 60 years or greater. Primary study results were coded, and meta-analytic procedures were conducted. Results: The overall effect size, weighted by sample size, was dw = .26 ± .05. Effect sizes were larger when interventions targeted only activity behavior, excluded general health education, incorporated self-monitoring, used center-based exercise, recommended moderate intensity activity, were delivered in groups, used intense contact between interventionists and participants, and targeted patient populations. Effect sizes were larger for studies that measured exercise duration and studies with a time interval of less than 90 days between intervention and behavior measurement. Conclusions: These findings suggest that group-delivered interventions should encourage moderate activity, incorporate self-monitoring, target only activity, and encourage center-based activity. Findings also suggest that patient populations may be especially receptive to activity interventions. Primary research testing interventions in randomized trials to confirm causal relationships would be constructive.

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Annals of Behavioral Medicine

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0883-6612

Publication Date

January 1, 2002

Volume

24

Issue

3

Start / End Page

190 / 200

Related Subject Headings

  • Public Health
  • Motor Activity
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Aging
  • Aged
  • Adult
  • 52 Psychology
 

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Conn, V. S., Valentine, J. C., & Cooper, H. M. (2002). Interventions to increase physical activity among aging adults: A meta-analysis. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 24(3), 190–200. https://doi.org/10.1207/S15324796ABM2403_04
Conn, V. S., J. C. Valentine, and H. M. Cooper. “Interventions to increase physical activity among aging adults: A meta-analysis.” Annals of Behavioral Medicine 24, no. 3 (January 1, 2002): 190–200. https://doi.org/10.1207/S15324796ABM2403_04.
Conn VS, Valentine JC, Cooper HM. Interventions to increase physical activity among aging adults: A meta-analysis. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2002 Jan 1;24(3):190–200.
Conn, V. S., et al. “Interventions to increase physical activity among aging adults: A meta-analysis.” Annals of Behavioral Medicine, vol. 24, no. 3, Jan. 2002, pp. 190–200. Scopus, doi:10.1207/S15324796ABM2403_04.
Conn VS, Valentine JC, Cooper HM. Interventions to increase physical activity among aging adults: A meta-analysis. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2002 Jan 1;24(3):190–200.
Journal cover image

Published In

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

DOI

ISSN

0883-6612

Publication Date

January 1, 2002

Volume

24

Issue

3

Start / End Page

190 / 200

Related Subject Headings

  • Public Health
  • Motor Activity
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Aging
  • Aged
  • Adult
  • 52 Psychology