Physical activity levels in adults and older adults 3-4 years after pedometer-based walking interventions: Long-term follow-up of participants from two randomised controlled trials in UK primary care.
PLoS Med
; 15(3): e1002526, 2018 03.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Physical inactivity is an important cause of noncommunicable diseases. Interventions can increase short-term physical activity (PA), but health benefits require maintenance. Few interventions have evaluated PA objectively beyond 12 months. We followed up two pedometer interventions with positive 12-month effects to examine objective PA levels at 3-4 years. METHODS ANDFINDINGS:
Long-term follow-up of two completed trials Pedometer And Consultation Evaluation-UP (PACE-UP) 3-arm (postal, nurse support, control) at 3 years and Pedometer Accelerometer Consultation Evaluation-Lift (PACE-Lift) 2-arm (nurse support, control) at 4 years post-baseline. Randomly selected patients from 10 United Kingdom primary care practices were recruited (PACE-UP 45-75 years, PACE-Lift 60-75 years). Intervention arms received 12-week walking programmes (pedometer, handbooks, PA diaries) postally (PACE-UP) or with nurse support (PACE-UP, PACE-Lift). Main outcomes were changes in 7-day accelerometer average daily step counts and weekly time in moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) in ≥10-minute bouts in intervention versus control groups, between baseline and 3 years (PACE-UP) and 4 years (PACE-Lift). PACE-UP 3-year follow-up was 67% (681/1,023) (mean age 59, 64% female), and PACE-Lift 4-year follow-up was 76% (225/298) (mean age 67, 53% female). PACE-UP 3-year intervention versus control comparisons were as follows additional steps/day postal +627 (95% CI 198-1,056), p = 0.004, nurse +670 (95% CI 237-1,102), p = 0.002; total weekly MVPA in bouts (minutes/week) postal +28 (95% CI 7-49), p = 0.009, nurse +24 (95% CI 3-45), p = 0.03. PACE-Lift 4-year intervention versus control comparisons were +407 (95% CI -177-992), p = 0.17 steps/day, and +32 (95% CI 5-60), p = 0.02 minutes/week MVPA in bouts. Neither trial showed sedentary or wear-time differences. Main study limitation was incomplete follow-up; however, results were robust to missing data sensitivity analyses.CONCLUSIONS:
Intervention participants followed up from both trials demonstrated higher levels of objectively measured PA at 3-4 years than controls, similar to previously reported 12-month trial effects. Pedometer interventions, delivered by post or with nurse support, can help address the public health physical inactivity challenge. TRIAL REGISTRATIONS PACE-UP isrctn.com ISRCTN98538934; PACE-Lift isrctn.com ISRCTN42122561.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Exercício Físico
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Caminhada
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Assistência ao Convalescente
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Terapia por Exercício
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Doenças não Transmissíveis
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
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Evaluation_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
PLoS Med
Assunto da revista:
MEDICINA
Ano de publicação:
2018
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Reino Unido