Patterns and correlates of physical activity: a cross-sectional study in urban Chinese women

Jurj, Adriana L.; Wen, Wanqing; Gao, Yu‐Tang; Matthews, Charles E.; Yang, Gong; Li, Honglan; Wang, Zheng; Shu, Xiao‐Ou

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-7-213

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“…The present study showed that widowed, separated and divorced women walked the most. The only two studies that investigated determinants for walking yielded similar results (14,16) . Interestingly, in our study, parity seemed to be more relevant than marital status for sports or cycling activity.…”

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confidence: 58%

“…This is somewhat astonishing as children often substantially affect the lifestyle and recreational activities of their parents. To our knowledge, only two studies in younger women considered these aspects (16,23) . Both studies found that a smaller family size was related to higher activities in sports but fewer activities in the household.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Only one study from China also reported higher sports activities of women following chronic disease diagnosis (16) . Otherwise, our results for medical conditions are in line with the most previous work indicating that poor health status is associated with decreased PA (10,15,28) .…”

Section: Physical Activity and Coexisting Diseasesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…PA has been related with social status in some, but not all studies (8,16,24) . In our study, lower educational status was related with low sport activity.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Only a few studies have investigated activity determinants in the German population (8,10,11) , and none of those evaluated factors associated specifically with walking and cycling. Several studies have separately investigated demographic, lifestyle or psychosocial determinants of activity (8,10,(12)(13)(14)(15)(16) , but few have comprehensively investigated a broad range of factors of interest simultaneously controlling for potentially confounding variables.…”

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Determinants of sports, cycling, walking and overall leisure-time physical activity among postmenopausal women in Germany

Steindorf

Chang‐Claude

Flesch-Janys

et al. 2010

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: Convincing evidence exists for a beneficial effect of physical activity (PA) on health and well-being for elderly women. Nevertheless, many women in Germany are insufficiently physically active. Activity promotion programmes should target women in particular need. Thus, we examined subject-related determinants of PA for postmenopausal women in Germany. Design: Associations of sociodemographic, anthropometric, lifestyle and healthrelated factors with activity since the age of 50 years were assessed with multiple linear and logistic regression models, regarding overall leisure-time PA (LPA) in metabolic equivalent hours per week, engagement in sports (ever v. never), cycling (yes v. no) and walking ($3?5 v. ,3?5 h/week). Conclusions: Our results suggest potential target groups for promoting sports, cycling or walking activity. Postmenopausal women with chronic diseases may need to be stronger encouraged by their physicians to engage in adequate PA for the management of their diseases.

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Section: Strength and Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Physical Activity and Coexisting Diseasesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…PA has been related with social status in some, but not all studies (8,16,24) . In our study, lower educational status was related with low sport activity.…”

Section: Strength and Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%