KINE 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Exercise Prescription, Family Medicine, Health Education
29 Oct 2017
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I don"t have time : how do we get people to be active? intervention. Intervention goals: to get sedentary or irregularly active individuals to adopt regular exercise, to keep physically active individual exercising on a regular basis. 5 intervention frameworks: main ways to increase pa at individual level, behaviour modification, cognitive-behavioural interventions, health education, health risk appraisal, exercise prescription, some sample interventions: Individual level: mailing motivational reading material, family doctor encourages patient to walk every day, personal training, info classes. Group level: exercise class w/group cohesion, make a group name, t-shirts, assign jobs like greeters, helping newcomers. Overall effects of pa interventions: 50% of people drop out of pa programs within 6 months, overall es of interventions rose to success rate of 88% Interventions that manipulate antecedent conditions and consequences of performing or not performing a behaviour: controlling stimuli, rewards and punishment, examples :
