Investigating the Role of Physical Education in Physical Activity Promotion: An Italian Multicenter Study

Gallé, Francesca; Onofrio, Valeria Di; Barbone, Fabio; Brandi, Giorgio; Calimeri, Sebastiano; Carraro, Elisabetta; Carraturo, Federica; Dallolio, Laura; Meo, Concetta De; Santi, Mauro De; Fantuzzi, Guglielmina; Fortunato, Francesca; Gorrasi, Ilaria Silvia Rossella; Guida, Marco; Milìa, Daniele Ignazio La; Leoni, Erica; Giudice, Daniela Lo; Minelli, Liliana; Napoli, Christian; Parpinel, Maria; Pasquarella, Cesira; Prato, Rosa; Spica, Vincenzo Romano; Signorelli, Carlo; Tafuri, Silvio; Valeriani, Federica; Liguori, Giorgio

doi:10.1123/jpah.2015-0452

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“…Additionally, investing in health promotion through physical education (PE) would be ideal, with studies already suggesting the engagement of PE teaching by provision of school-based extra-curricular patient. 28 The results of this study suggest a certain lack of adherence, difficulties and information related to medicine use. Consequently this raises the need for public education on the medication adherence and life style factors such as PA in the success of the treatment, which should be the basic parts of campaigns and education programs.…”

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Pattern and Factors Associated with Medicine Usage in Middle-aged Adults: a Population Based Cross-Sectional Study

Krasniqi

Koni

Berisha³

et al. 2018

Folia Medica

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Aim: The present study analyzes the adherence phenomenon and possible correlations between active individuals and their educational status on the prevalence of medicine use in the population of a young and developing country such as Kosova. Materials and methods: This is an observational, cross-sectional, research study including a total number of 162 subjects aged 40-65 years residents of Kosova. Gender distribution was: 32.7% males and 67.3% females. Assessments of medication adherence and compliance, the level of physical activity (PA), and education were made by reliable and validated questionnaires. Results: Analyzing medication compliance, of 162 interviewed subjects, 29.6% (32.1% males and 28.4% females) and 27.2% (22.6% males and 29.3% females) responded that they sometimes forget to take their medicines, or that they stop taking them for reasons other than forgetting. Meanwhile, 40.1% declared that they usually stopped the medicine only because they felt better, 38.9% claimed to have stopped the medicine because they believed they felt worse, whereas more than half of our study responders declared having problem with buying the medicine. Regarding PA, significantly better results (p<0.05) in medicine use were shown by subjects with higher PA level in our population. Additionally, higher levels of education correlated with lower amount of medication consumption. Conclusion: The results of this study suggest for certain lack of adherence, difficulties and information related to medicine use. Consequently this raises the need for public education on the medication adherence and life style factors such as PA for the success of the treatment.

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Pattern and Factors Associated with Medicine Usage in Middle-aged Adults: a Population Based Cross-Sectional Study

Krasniqi

Koni

Berisha³

et al. 2018

Folia Medica

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“…The regression analysis showed that male gender was associated to unhealthy nutritional status and inactive lifestyle, while attending the Neapolitan university seems to be associated with higher BMI and screen time but not with insufficient PA. However, it should be considered that being employed resulted positively associated to low levels of PA, which suggests that working students encounter greater difficulties in finding free time for recreational or structured activities to meet WHO recommendations: the reason why Neapolitan students, who were largely workers, showed good levels of PA is probably related with the fact that a great amount of them studied and were employed in the field of PA and sport (data not reported) [20, 21].…”

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A cross-sectional study investigating lifestyle and weight perception of undergraduate students in southern Italy

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BackgroundThe aim of the study was to explore lifestyle of undergraduate students in southern Italy and to investigate their determinants.MethodsAn anonymous, web-based questionnaire investigating weight and its perception, smoking and alcohol use, achievement of recommended levels of physical activity and time spent daily in screen-based sedentary behaviors was administered to students attending two universities in southern Italy. Age, gender, city, type of degree course attended, occupational status and residential status were considered as possible demographic determinants.ResultsThe majority of the participants reported a normal weight (71.2%), were non-smokers (66.6%), occasional alcohol consumers (60.5%) and insufficiently active (62.6%), with a reported mean screen time exceeding 2 h per day. Gender, city, type of degree course and occupational status were found to be associated with lifestyle by regression analysis. Normal weight, overweight and obese students were generally properly aware of their weight condition; however, weight misperceptions were registered among normal and underweight undergraduates.ConclusionsThis study highlighted some critical issues regarding lifestyles of university students that suggest the need for health promotion interventions targeted mainly on physical activity.

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“…Physical education (PE) is considered one of the privileged instruments to promote youths' PA, both inside school [20][21][22] and out-of-school [23][24][25]. PE has the potential to reach all students since it is a compulsory school subject -at least in Europe -, providing them with the acquisition of motor skills and behavior transferable to different life contexts [20,[26][27][28]. Moreover, unlike other exercise settings, such as sport clubs and associations, PE is taught by qualified teachers who are assumed to create contexts fostering positive values, securing students' engagement and promoting positive development [29,30].…”

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Promoting Physical Activity During School Closures Imposed by the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Physical Education Teachers’ Behaviors in Three European Countries

Gobbi¹,

Maltagliati²,

Sarrazin³

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COVID-19 pandemic has drastically reduced physical activity (PA) behaviors of many people. Physical education (PE) is considered one of the privileged instruments to promote youths’ PA. We aimed to investigate the effects of lockdown on PE teachers’ behaviors promoting their students’ out-of-school PA and differences between three European countries. 1146 PE teachers (59.5% females) from France, Italy, and Turkey answered an online questionnaire about guiding students to engage in out-of-school PA, helping them to set PA goals, encouraging in self-monitoring PA, the pedagogical formats of these behaviors and feedback asked to students. RM-MANCOVAs were performed with a 2 Time (before and during the lockdown) × 3Country (France, Italy, Turkey) × 2 Gender factorial design, using teaching years and perceived health as covariates. A significant multivariate main effect Time×Country×Gender (p&lt;.001) was reported for the behaviors promoting students’ PA, with French and Italian teachers increasing some behaviors, while Turkish teachers showing opposite trends. Significant multivariate main effects Time×Country were found for formats supporting the behaviors (p &lt; .001) and for asked feedback formats (p&lt;.001). The massive contextual change imposed by lockdown caused different reactions in teachers from the three countries. Findings are informative for PA promotion and PE teachers’ education.

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Investigating the Role of Physical Education in Physical Activity Promotion: An Italian Multicenter Study

Abstract: To enhance its role in health promotion, PE teaching should be improved by increasing the time allocated to PE and by strengthening the provision of school-based extracurricular PA.

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Pattern and Factors Associated with Medicine Usage in Middle-aged Adults: a Population Based Cross-Sectional Study

Pattern and Factors Associated with Medicine Usage in Middle-aged Adults: a Population Based Cross-Sectional Study

A cross-sectional study investigating lifestyle and weight perception of undergraduate students in southern Italy

Promoting Physical Activity During School Closures Imposed by the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Physical Education Teachers’ Behaviors in Three European Countries

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