ArticleEuropean journal of ageing2016
Positive messages enhance older adults' motivation and recognition memory for physical activity programmes.
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- The Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce Sedentary Time in Different Target Groups and Settings in Germany: Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis and Recommendations on Interventions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Choice architecture interventions to change physical activity and sedentary behavior: a systematic review of effects on intention, behavior and health outcomes during and after intervention.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2020Pooled it
- Age and Framing Effects in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2022Trial
- The Daily Activity Study of Health (DASH): A pilot randomized controlled trial to enhance physical activity in sedentary older adults.Contemporary clinical trials · 2021Trial
- Protocol for a Pilot Two-Arm Crossover Randomized Controlled Trial of the ACTIVE Intervention for Older Adults with and Without Mild Dementia and Their Care Partners.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Improving Affective Associations With Physical Activity via a Message-Based mHealth Intervention (WalkToJoy): Proof-of-Concept Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Dementia Prevention Self-Management in Older Thai Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: Development and Psychometric Properties of Two Questionnaires.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Article
- Social Robots and Sensors for Enhanced Aging at Home: Mixed Methods Study With a Focus on Mobility and Socioeconomic Factors.JMIR aging · 2024Article
- Designing health messages for older adults: factors that influence older adults' perceptions of hope for making health behavior changes.Journal of language and aging research · 2024Article
- The Influence of Message Framing on Elderly Tourists' Purchase Intentions of Health Services: A Case Study of Guangxi Bama.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Likeability and perceived effectiveness of messages designed to encourage physical activity participation among older adults.Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2022Article
- Effects of message framing, psychological distance, and risk perception on exercise attitude in Chinese adolescents.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Planning and optimising a digital intervention to protect older adults' cognitive health.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2021Article
- Getting to the Heart of the Matter in Later Life: The Central Role of Affect in Health Message Framing.The Gerontologist · 2021Article
- The psycholinguistic and affective processing of framed health messages among younger and older adults.Journal of experimental psychology. Applied · 2021Article
- Using self-determination theory to understand and improve recruitment for the Coaching for Healthy Ageing (CHAnGE) trial.PloS one · 2021Article
- Smartphone Apps to Support Falls Rehabilitation Exercise: App Development and Usability and Acceptability Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Article
- Promoting physical activity in geriatric patients with cognitive impairment after discharge from ward-rehabilitation: a feasibility study.European journal of ageing · 2020Article
- Get the message? A scoping review of physical activity messaging.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2020Article
- The impact of age on goal-framing for health messages: The mediating effect of interest in health and emotion regulation.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
Although physical activity is an effective way to cope with ageing-related impairments, few older people are motivated to turn their sedentary lifestyle into an active one. Recent evidence suggests that walking can be more effectively promoted in older adults with positive messages about the benefits of walking than with negative messages about the risks of inactivity. This study examined motivation and memory as the supposed mechanisms underlying the greater effectiveness of positively framed compared to negatively framed messages for promoting activity. Older adults (
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