ArticleBMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation2021
Effect of a 1-year intervention comprising brief counselling sessions and low-dose physical activity recommendations in Japanese adults, and retention of the effect at 2 years: a randomized trial.
Article in BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00926744 (Large-Scale Randomized Intervention Trial of Effects of Physical Activity on Incidence and Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Diseases in Healthy People), which is not on this map. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Large-Scale Randomized Intervention Trial of Effects of Physical Activity on Incidence and Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Diseases in Healthy People
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.
- Towards a better understanding of brief lifestyle interventions in noncommunicable diseases: a concept analysis.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Health-promotion interventions targeting multiple behaviors: A meta-analytic review of general and behavior-specific processes of change.Psychological bulletin · 2024Pooled it
- Relationship between bioelectrical impedance-derived muscle quality and physical activity, sedentary behavior, or sleep using compositional data analysis (CoDA).Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Association of bioimpedance-derived parameters with pulse wave velocity: Phase angle, extracellular to intracellular water ratio, and body cell mass.Physiological reports · 2025Article
- Association between physical activity and the prevalence of tumorigenic bacteria in the gut microbiota of Japanese adults: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Ramen Consumption and Gut Microbiota Diversity in Japanese Women: Cross-Sectional Data from the NEXIS Cohort Study.Microorganisms · 2023Article
- Phase angle obtained via bioelectrical impedance analysis and objectively measured physical activity or exercise habits.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Physical activity adaptation towards control of selected noncommunicable diseases-A detailed part of large community trial in rural areas of India.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn an effort to increase people's adherence to active lifestyles, contemporary physical activity (PA) guidelines now include low-dose PA.
methodsPA was evaluated in 583 participants of the Nutritional and Physical Activity Intervention Study (NEXIS) cohort (30-65 years old); 349 inactive participants (MVPA, 2.7 ± 1.0 MET-h/day) were randomly assigned to the intervention or control groups, and 235 active participants participated in follow-up visits. The intervention aimed to increase MVPA and comprised five brief counseling sessions over 1 year. The 1-year target for the participant was increasing their step-count to 10,000 steps/d or +3000 steps/d, relative to the baseline score. The counseling sessions were designed to stimulate progressive changes in physical behaviors by recommendations promoting small and/or light-intensity bouts of PA. PA was measured at baseline, the end of the intervention, and 1 year after the intervention ended. Additionally, several nutrition, health, and fitness parameters were measured.
resultsParticipants in the intervention group significantly increased their step-count from 8415 ± 1924 at baseline to 9493 ± 2575 at the end of the 1-year period. During the same period, MVPA significantly increased by 0.9 MET-h. The daily time spent in ≥ 3, ≥ 4 and ≥ 5 MET activities increased by 11, 6, and 3 min, respectively. This increase in PA remained observable 1 year after intervention concluded. The active group maintained higher physical activity levels throughout the two years. The intervention group showed smaller energy intakes at the end of the 2-year period. Significant correlations were noted between the 1-year change in MVPA and the change in resting heart rate (r = - 0.22), and between the 2-year change in MVPA and the change in waist circumference (r = - 0.08) and peak oxygen consumption capacity (r = 0.23) in the intervention group only.
conclusionsA prolonged and progressive PA intervention promoting small bouts of light-to-moderate PA may be used in healthy, not-optimally-active people to increase PA beyond the strict period of the intervention. Further studies are necessary to understand whether low-dose PA messages can be effective in initiating a progressive increase toward larger amounts of PA.
trial registrationClinical Trials.gov, NCT00926744, retrospectively registered.
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