Changes to gait speed when romantic partners walk together: Effect of age and obstructed pathway

Cho, HyeYoung; Förster, Anna; Christ, Sharon L.; Franks, Melissa M.; Richards, Elizabeth; Rietdyk, Shirley

doi:10.1016/j.gaitpost.2021.02.017

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“…Interestingly, our results showed that social- and family-based walking was not as popular as walking with a friend or walking alone in both age groups of women. A study by Cho et al [ 29 ] offers insights into how walking with a partner might motivate walking due to social support; however, it often results in reduced speed that may unintentionally reduce health benefits, a trade-off that needs more research. A feature to build a digital community of support was more favored in the younger group.…”

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Attitudes, Barriers, and Motivators Toward Daily Walking and a Mobile App to Increase Walking Among Women: Web-Based Anonymous Survey

Jones,

Chandarana,

Vyas

et al. 2024

JMIR Form Res

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Background There are disparities in the prevalence of physical activity (PA) with women engaging in less PA than men, a gap which widens during midlife. Walking is a generally accepted form of PA among women and should be encouraged. Motivations, barriers, and attitudes to engaging in walking change with age, but the influencing factors are not well understood nor are the features of mobile apps that facilitate daily walking. Objective This study explores the relationship between age and women’s self-reported motivations, barriers, attitudes, and beliefs toward daily walking. It further assesses attitudes toward features of a mobile app designed to sync with a wearable step tracker to increase and maintain levels of daily walking among women. Methods A web-based anonymous survey was completed by 400 women, aged 21-75 years. The 31-item survey captured women’s perceived barriers and motivators toward daily walking and attitudes toward mobile apps to support and maintain daily walking. For analysis, responses to the survey were grouped into 2 categories of women: ages 21-49 years and ages 50-75 years. Bivariate analyses were conducted through SPSS (IBM Corp) for each of the survey questions using chi-square for dichotomous variables and 1-tailed t tests for scales and continuous variables to identify significant differences between the groups. One-tailed t tests were run for scaled variables to identify significant differences between the 10-year age increments. Results Significant barriers to daily walking were observed in the 21-49–year group for personal and work responsibilities, motivational and psychosocial factors, and physical and environmental factors. Motivators to walk daily in the 21- 49–year group were significantly higher to reduce stress and anxiety, and motivators to walk daily in the 50-75–year group were significantly higher to help manage or lose weight and to reduce the risk of chronic illness. Women’s walking preferences, beliefs around their walking behaviors, and their perceived importance of the features of a future mobile app for walking designed specifically for women showed significant variation according to age. When asked about the importance of features for a mobile app, women aged 21-49 years indicated a significantly higher number of positive responses for the following features: digital community support, rewards or point system, and seeing a daily or weekly or monthly progress chart. Conclusions Our findings indicate that barriers, motivators, and beliefs around daily walking and the importance of preferred features of a mobile app vary according to women’s ages. Messaging and app features should be tailored to different age groups of women. These study results can be viewed as a foundation for future research and development of mobile health interventions to effectively increase daily walking among women of all ages.

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Attitudes, Barriers, and Motivators Toward Daily Walking and a Mobile App to Increase Walking Among Women: Web-Based Anonymous Survey

Jones,

Chandarana,

Vyas

et al. 2024

JMIR Form Res

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“…46 In the real world, synchronizing is not easy, as long-distance hikers often discuss. 47 The preferred pace for individuals is subject to many variables, and even two people trying to walk at pace require accommodation 48 -for groups, the problem grows exponentially.…”

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Pace setting as an adaptive precursor of rhythmic musicality

Qirko

2024

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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Human musicality (the capacity to make and appreciate music) is difficult to explain in evolutionary terms, though many theories attempt to do so. This paper focuses on musicality's potential adaptive precursors, particularly as related to rhythm. It suggests that pace setting for walking and running long distances over extended time periods (endurance locomotion, EL) is a good candidate for an adaptive building block of rhythmic musicality. The argument is as follows: (1) over time, our hominin lineage developed a host of adaptations for efficient EL; (2) the ability to set and maintain a regular pace was a crucial adaptation in the service of EL, providing proximate rewards for successful execution; (3) maintaining a pace in EL occasioned hearing, feeling, and attending to regular rhythmic patterns; (4) these rhythmic patterns, as well as proximate rewards for maintaining them, became disassociated from locomotion and entrained in new proto‐musical contexts. Support for the model and possibilities for generating predictions to test it are discussed.

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Promoting healthy aging through exergames among older adults: single-player vs. multi-player modes

Zhong,

Yang,

Wan

2024

Educational Gerontology

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Changes to gait speed when romantic partners walk together: Effect of age and obstructed pathway

Cited by 6 publications

References 26 publications

Attitudes, Barriers, and Motivators Toward Daily Walking and a Mobile App to Increase Walking Among Women: Web-Based Anonymous Survey

Attitudes, Barriers, and Motivators Toward Daily Walking and a Mobile App to Increase Walking Among Women: Web-Based Anonymous Survey

Pace setting as an adaptive precursor of rhythmic musicality

Promoting healthy aging through exergames among older adults: single-player vs. multi-player modes

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