ArticlePreventive medicine reports2017
Barriers to physical activity as moderators of intervention effects.
Article in Preventive medicine reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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- The association between neighborhood conditions and weight loss among older adults living in a large urban city.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2023Trial
- Barriers to Physical Activity in Low Back Pain Patients following Rehabilitation: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial.BioMed research international · 2017Trial
- Obesity-Preventive Behaviors and Improvements in Depression among Diverse Utah Women Receiving Coaching from Community Health Workers.Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · 2024Article
- The Relationship Between Barriers to Physical Activity and Depressive Symptoms in Community-Dwelling Women.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- Understanding the relationship between subclinical depressive symptoms and physical activity in behavioral weight loss treatment.Obesity science & practice · 2023Article
- Benefits and barriers to physical activity among African women: A systematic review.Sports medicine and health science · 2023Review
- Does the neighborhood built environment moderate the effectiveness of a weight-loss intervention for mothers with overweight or obesity? Findings from the Healthy Eating and Active Living Taught at Home (HEALTH) study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Article
- The indirect effects of food insecurity on obesogenic environments.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Hair Maintenance and Chemical Hair Product Usage as Barriers to Physical Activity in Childhood and Adulthood among African American Women.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Does the built environment influence the effectiveness of behavioral weight management interventions?Preventive medicine · 2019Article
- Physical Activity After Breast Cancer Surgery: Does Depression Make Exercise Feel More Effortful than It Actually Is?International journal of behavioral medicine · 2019Article
- The evaluation of a fourth-generation multi-theory model (MTM) based intervention to initiate and sustain physical activity.Health promotion perspectives · 2019Article
- Social Support for Exercise as a Predictor of Weight and Physical Activity Status Among Puerto Rican and Mexican Men: Results From the Latino Men's Health Initiative.American journal of men's health · 2018Article
- Predicting Physical Activity Behavior in African American Females: Using Multi Theory Model.Journal of research in health sciences · 2018Article
- Accumulating Data to Optimally Predict Obesity Treatment (ADOPT) Core Measures: Environmental Domain.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2018Article
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Abstract
The impact of interventions to increase physical activity (PA) may vary as a function of participants' barriers to PA. The aim of this paper is to determine whether individual barriers (demographic, physical health, psychological health, neighborhood factors, perceived barriers to PA, social support for PA) moderate treatment effects on increases in PA. Three treatment conditions tested the relative efficacy of a group-based PA intervention alone or supplemented by either personal or automated phone calls made between group meetings. From 2010 to 2012, 284 African American women (ages 40-65) living in the Chicago, IL, area were randomized to one of the three treatment conditions. Data collection occurred at baseline as well as 24 and 48 weeks after baseline. Moderation of intervention effects by barriers to PA were tested across four outcome measures (self-reported moderate-vigorous PA, self-reported walking, accelerometer steps, and aerobic fitness) using multilevel mixed-effects analyses. Significant condition by barrier interaction effects for the accelerometer steps outcome were found for material hardships, general health, depressive symptoms, neighborhood crime rate, and perceived barriers to PA. For aerobic fitness, intervention effects were moderated by material hardships and perceived pain. Increases in the outcome variables were greater for the conditions in which group sessions were supplemented with personal and/or automated calls. Among participants with greater barriers to PA, supplementing the intervention group meetings with between-session personal and/or automated phone calls may be an effective way to strengthen intervention effects. These results may inform the use of treatment supplements in the context of adaptive interventions.
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