Trial reportThe international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity2012
Physical activity levels six months after a randomised controlled physical activity intervention for Pakistani immigrant men living in Norway.
Trial report in The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00539903 (Physical Activity and Immigrant Health), which is not on this map. Cited by 21 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Physical Activity and Immigrant Health
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Diet and physical activity interventions to prevent or treat obesity in South Asian children and adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2015Pooled it
- A comparison of the effectiveness of physical activity and sedentary behaviour interventions in reducing sedentary time in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled trials.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2014Pooled it
- Face-to-face versus remote and web 2.0 interventions for promoting physical activity.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- Face-to-face interventions for promoting physical activity.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- Effectiveness of a female community health volunteer-led physical activity education intervention on accelerometer-derived outcomes in semi-urban Nepal: an open-label, cluster randomised controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2026Trial
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- Effects of reducing sedentary time on glucose metabolism in immigrant Pakistani men.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2015Trial
- Multilevel Diabetes Prevention Interventions to Address Population Inequities in Diabetes Risk: Scoping Review.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Article
- Healthy weight loss maintenance with exercise, GLP-1 receptor agonist, or both combined followed by one year without treatment: a post-treatment analysis of a randomised placebo-controlled trial.EClinicalMedicine · 2024Article
- The ISAC Paradigm to Tame Oral Cancer in Saudi Arabia: A Quasi-experimental Study.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2023Article
- Identifying behavioural barriers and facilitators to engaging men in a community-based lifestyle intervention to improve physical and mental health and well-being.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Article
- Pakistani Women: Promoting Agents of Healthy Eating Habits in Catalonia-Protocol of a Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Randomized Control Trial (RCT) Based on the Transtheoretical Model.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Lifestyle Interventions for Diabetes Prevention in South Asians: Current Evidence and Opportunities.Current diabetes reports · 2021Review
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- Recruitment and Retention of South Asian Ethnic Minority Populations in Behavioral Interventions to Improve Type 2 Diabetes Outcomes.Current diabetes reports · 2017Review
- An Updated Review of Interventions that Include Promotion of Physical Activity for Adult Men.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2015Review
- Somali women's view of physical activity--a focus group study.BMC women's health · 2014Article
- Remote and web 2.0 interventions for promoting physical activity.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Article
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backgroundTo our knowledge, no studies have aimed at improving the PA level in south Asian immigrant men residing in Western countries, and few studies have considered the relevance of SCT constructs to the PA behaviour of this group in the long term. The observed low physical activity (PA) level among south Asian immigrants in Western countries may partly explain the high prevalence of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) in this group. We have shown previously in a randomised controlled trial, the Physical Activity and Minority Health study (PAMH) that a social cognitive based intervention can beneficially influence PA level and subsequently reduce waist circumference and insulin resistance in the short-term. In an extended follow-up of the PAMH study: we aimed 1) to determine if the intervention produced long-term positive effects on PA level six months after intervention (follow-up 2 (FU2)), and 2) to identify the social cognitive mediators of any intervention effects.
methodsPhysically inactive Pakistani immigrant men (n = 150) who were free of CVD and T2D were randomly assigned to a five months PA intervention or a control group. Six months after the intervention ended, we telephoned all those who attended FU1 and invited them for a second follow-up test (FU2) (n = 133). PA was measured using ActiGraph accelerometers. Statistical differences between groups were determined by use of ANCOVA.
resultsSignificant differences (baseline to FU2) between the groups were found for all PA variables (e.g., total PA level, sedentary time, PA intensity). Support from family and outcome expectancies increased more in the intervention group compared with the control group. Self-efficacy did not differ significantly between groups.
conclusionsOur results show that a multi component PA programme can increase PA over the short and long term in a group of immigrant Pakistani men. However, we could not identify the factors that mediated these changes in PA. PROTOCOL ID: 07112001326, NCT ID: NCT00539903.
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