ArticleBMC family practice2010
Effect of a primary health-care-based controlled trial for cardiorespiratory fitness in refugee women.
Article in BMC family practice, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00747942 (Intervention Program for Physically Inactive and Overweight Immigrant Women From the Middle East and Latin America Living in Sweden), which is not on this map. Cited by 14 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Intervention Program for Physically Inactive and Overweight Immigrant Women From the Middle East and Latin America Living in Sweden
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Interventions for improving health literacy in migrants.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Improving primary health care quality for refugees and asylum seekers: A systematic review of interventional approaches.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2022Pooled it
- Community-based cardiovascular health interventions in vulnerable populations: a systematic review.The Journal of cardiovascular nursing · 2014Pooled it
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- Associations between grip strength, cardiorespiratory fitness, cardiovascular risk and mental health in forcibly displaced people from a Greek refugee camp.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
- Does cardiorespiratory fitness moderate the relationship between overweight, cardiovascular risk markers and mental health among forcibly displaced individuals living in a Greek refugee camp?Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
- Effects of a co-designed exercise and sport intervention on cardiorespiratory fitness and metabolic syndrome components among individuals living in a refugee camp in Greece: A randomized controlled trial.Journal of migration and health · 2024Article
- Psychological well-being, mental distress, metabolic syndrome, and associated factors among people living in a refugee camp in Greece: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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- Development and evaluation of a physical activity intervention informed by participatory research- a feasibility study.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Diabetes among refugee populations: what newly arriving refugees can learn from resettled Cambodians.Current diabetes reports · 2015Review
- Developing a self-reported physical fitness survey.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2012Article
- Physical activity and nutrition among immigrant and refugee women: a community-based participatory research approach.Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health · 2012Article
- American College of Lifestyle Medicine Expert Consensus Statement: Lifestyle Medicine for Optimal Outcomes in Primary Care.American journal of lifestyle medicineArticle
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Abstract
backgroundRefugee women have a high risk of coronary heart disease with low physical activity as one possible mediator. Furthermore, cultural and environmental barriers to increasing physical activity have been demonstrated. The aim of the study was to evaluate the combined effect of an approximate 6-month primary health care- and community-based exercise intervention versus an individual written prescription for exercise on objectively assessed cardiorespiratory fitness in low-active refugee women.
methodsA controlled clinical trial, named "Support for Increased Physical Activity", was executed among 243 refugee women recruited between November 2006 and April 2008 from two deprived geographic areas in southern Stockholm, Sweden. One geographic area provided the intervention group and the other area the control group. The control group was on a higher activity level at both baseline and follow-up, which was taken into consideration in the analysis by applying statistical models that accounted for this. Relative aerobic capacity and fitness level were assessed as the two main outcome measures.
resultsThe intervention group increased their relative aerobic capacity and the percentage with an acceptable fitness level (relative aerobic capacity > 23 O2 mlxkgxmin-1) to a greater extent than the control group between baseline and the 6-month follow-up, after adjusting for possible confounders (P = 0.020).
conclusionsA combined primary health-care and community-based exercise programme (involving non-profit organizations) can be an effective strategy to increase cardiorespiratory fitness among low-active refugee women.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT00747942.
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