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ReviewAmerican journal of lifestyle medicine

Encouraging Dog Walking for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

Hayley Christian, Adrian Bauman, Jacqueline N Epping, Glenn N Levine, Gavin McCormack, Ryan E Rhodes, Elizabeth Richards, Melanie Rock, Carri Westgarth

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Review in American journal of lifestyle medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Hayley ChristianSchool of Population Health and Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia (HC).
Adrian BaumanSchool of Population Health and Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia (HC).
Jacqueline N EppingSchool of Population Health and Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia (HC).
Glenn N LevineSchool of Population Health and Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia (HC).
Gavin McCormackSchool of Population Health and Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia (HC).
Ryan E RhodesSchool of Population Health and Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia (HC).
Elizabeth RichardsSchool of Population Health and Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia (HC).
Melanie RockSchool of Population Health and Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia (HC).
Carri WestgarthSchool of Population Health and Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia (HC).

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regular physical activity is associated with numerous health benefits, including the prevention of many chronic diseases and conditions or a reduction in their adverse effects. Intervention studies suggest that promoting dog walking among dog owners who do not routinely walk their dogs may be an effective strategy for increasing and maintaining regular physical activity. Strategies that emphasize the value of dog walking for both dogs and people, promote the context-dependent repetition of dog walking, enhance the social-interaction benefits, encourage family dog walking, and ensure availability of public space for dog walking may encourage increased dog walking. Research also supports organizing buddy systems via "loaner" dogs to facilitate informal walking by dog owners and non-dog owners. Given the number of homes that have dogs, strategies that promote dog walking could be effective at increasing physical activity levels among a significant proportion of the population. Maximizing the potential for dog walking to positively influence the health of individual people (and dogs) will only occur through implementing programs with broad population-level reach. Policies that facilitate dog walking at the community and population levels, such as "dogs allowed" places, off-leash zones, and dog-friendly built environments and parks, may contribute to greater physical activity through dog walking.

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doghealth promotionphysical activityreviewwalking

Identifiers

PMID30202393
PMCPMC6124971

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