Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience. Abstract To encourage increased participation in physical activity among Americans of all ages by issuing a public health recommendation on the types and amounts of physical ...
Role and Competencies for Health Education Specialist in Physical Activity Programs Objectives: Physical activity provides economic benefits and contributes in improving health and quality of life. Opportunities for physical activity continue to decrease with the increasing prevalence of sedentary lifestyles. ...
The intervention group, according to plan carried out by a specialist in exercise physiology, did physical activity for 8-week, the control group received no intervention. At the beginning and the end of the study period, general health ...
Mental Health and Physical Activity (MENPA) is becoming increasingly competitive. We continue to receive many more manuscripts than we can possibly publish. Therefore, in order to reduce any delay in publishing the best science, the following guidelines should be considered prior to submitting a man...
Mental Health and Physical Activity is an international forum for scholarly reports on any aspect of relevance to advancing our understanding of the relationship between mental health and physical activity. Please note that papers which focus exclusively on mental health, or exclusively on physical activ...
Fatigue is barrier of physical activity participation in adults with chronic conditions. However, physical activity alleviates fatigue symptoms. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to (1) synthesise evidence from randomised controlled trials (
Poor implementation of physical activity programs and policies by teachers and other school staff has been offered as another reason for the limited effects [16]. Teachers (i.e., generalist and specialist physical education) are recognized as ‘key agents of change’ responsible for the ...
Our review focuses on all articles in the English language that provide sufficient data to calculate a relative risk or odds ratio for CHD at different levels of physical activity. The inverse association between physical activity and incidence of CHD is
Physical activity plays an important role in maintaining good health and wellbeing, non-communicable disease prevention and can improve healthcare outcomes. Some progress is being made on incorporating physical activity into routine care, but less on eng
This study aimed to examine the associations between prolonged sedentary behavior and the risk of all-cause and cause-specific mortality as well as to explore desirable alternatives to sitting in terms of physical activity (PA). Methods Two prospective cohort investigations were conducted using the ...