Prescribed Exercise: A Prospective Study of Health-Related Quality of Life and Physical Fitness Among Participants in an Officially Sponsored Municipal Physical Training Program

Lerdal, Anners; Celius, Elin Hannevig; Pedersen, Gunn

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“…The HLCs are easily accessible, and people can attend the service through referral from a general practitioner (GP) or other health care providers or by self-referral (Norwegian Directorate of Health, 2016). The HLCs offers knowledge-based support for changing living habits and coping with health challenges through individual- and group-based counselling and activities, and use client-centred counselling approaches to promote the participants’ internal motivation, empowerment and coping (Abildsnes, Meland, Samdal, Stea, & Mildestvedt, 2016; Følling, Solbjør, & Helvik, 2015; Lerdal, Celius, & Pedersen, 2013; Norwegian Directorate of Health, 2016). …”

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Individual user involvement at Healthy Life Centres: a qualitative study exploring the perspective of health professionals

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International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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The aim of this study was to explore how professionals experience user involvement at an individual level and how they describe involving users at Healthy Life Centres. Four focus group interviews were conducted with a total of 23 professionals. Data were analysed using systematic text condensation. Four themes were identified: (1) Involving users through motivational interviewing; (2) Building a good and trustful relation; (3) Assessing and adjusting to the user’s needs and life situation; and(4) Strengthening the user’s ownership and participation in the lifestyle change process. Motivational interviewing was described by the professionals as a way to induce and ensure user involvement. However, seeing motivational interviewing and user involvement as the same concept might reduce user involvement from being a goal in itself and evolve into a means of achieving lifestyle changes. The professionals might be facing opposing discourses in their practice and a dilemma of promoting autonomy and involvement and at the same time promoting change in a predefined direction. Greater emphasis should thus be put on systematic reflection among professionals about what user involvement implies in the local Healthy Life Centre context and in each user’s situation. Abbreviations: HLC: Healthy Life Centre; MI: Motivational Interviewing; NCD: Non-communicable diseases; STC: Systematic Text Condensation. SDT: Self-determination theory

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Individual user involvement at Healthy Life Centres: a qualitative study exploring the perspective of health professionals

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International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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“…Consequently, there is a lack of studies evaluating the effect of HLC programmes. Results from a prospective intervention study with a 12-month follow-up indicated that participation in a group-based prescribed PA programme for 3 months significantly improved physical fitness and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) post intervention and at follow-up [26]. However, the generalizability of these findings is affected by high drop-out rates and should therefore be interpreted with caution.…”

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The Norwegian Healthy Life Study: protocol for a pragmatic RCT with longitudinal follow-up on physical activity and diet for adults

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BackgroundThe Norwegian Directorate of Health recommends that Healthy Life Centres (HLCs) be established in primary health care to support behaviour change and reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases. The aim of the present study protocol is to present the rationale, design and methods of a combined pragmatic randomized controlled trial (RCT) and longitudinal cohort study of the effects of attending HLCs concerning physical activity, sedentary behaviour and diet and to explore how psychological well-being and motivational factors may mediate short— and long-term effects.MethodsThe present study will combine a 6-month RCT with a longitudinal cohort study (24 months from baseline) conducted at six HLCs from June 2014 to Sept 2017. Participants are randomized to behavioural change interventions or a 6-month waiting list control group.DiscussionA randomized trial of interventions in HLCs has the potential to influence the development of policy and practice for behaviour change interventions and patient education programmes in Norway. We discuss some of the important preconditions for obtaining valid results from a complex intervention and outline some of the characteristics of ecological approaches in health care research that can enable a pragmatic intervention study.Trial registrationThe study was retrospectively registered on September 19, 2014 and is available online at ClinicalTrials.gov (ID: NCT02247219).

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“…The study of health-enhancing behavior and lifestyle in adolescents from North Indian City draws attention to the fact that some healthenhancing types of behavior (physical exercise and healthy diet), but also those health-damaging ones (smoking and use of alcohol) adopted and adapted in the period of adolescence are often preserved until late adulthood (70% of deaths has its roots in the habits related to health behavior solidified in this crucial developmental stage (Raj, Senjam, & Singh, 2013). As opposed to later life periods, this stage also involves more health-threatening behavior and risky attitudes to one´s own health (Haskell et al, 2007;Lerdal, Celius, & Pedersen, 2013). That is why the importance of influence of social support on an individual´s health raises in this stage of development, since, apart from its indirect influence, it can be also significantly demonstrated by its direct influence during adolescence − e.g.…”

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Health behavior in the context of perceived social support in late adolescence

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2016

European Proceedings of Social &Amp; Behavioural Sciences

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The presented study is a part of a grant research project: "Health-enhancing and health-threatening behavior: determinants, models and consequences" (n° 13-19808S). It follows up on the results of foreign research on possible connections between health behavior and the perceived level of social support. The primary aim was to identify the key components of health behavior in the developmental stage of late adolescence, map their relation to perceived social support and to explore if there are also some possible significant gender differences in health behavior or in perceived social support of adolescents which would be projected into their health behavior. The quantitative research design based on one-time questionnaire survey was used to carry out the research. Health behavior was assessed by the Health behavior scale, and the level of social support was assessed by the Close relationships and social support scale. The research file contained 825 adolescents aged 15-19 years (the average age was 16.89 years and the median was 17 years); there was a slight predominance of women (457 − 55.4%) over men (368 − 44.6%). By carrying out factor analysis of Health behavior scale, 4 factors explaining the 35.2% of the overall spread were extracted and they were named as: 1. Healthy eating; 2. Health protection; 3. Positive thinking; and 4. Illness prevention. In most of these factors, statistically significant gender differences were found, which are reflected in the reported health behavior. The results have demonstrated that two of the identified components of health behavior − Positive thinking and Illness prevention − are in a positive manner statistically significantly related to the level of perceived social support. Also differences in perceived social support in the given developmental stage have been mapped, and the highest level of social support has been found in 18-year-old respondents. The results of the study highlight the importance of future research in the area of studying the mechanism of impact that perceived social support has on the reported health behavior and the changes of this relationship in ontogeny.

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Prescribed Exercise: A Prospective Study of Health-Related Quality of Life and Physical Fitness Among Participants in an Officially Sponsored Municipal Physical Training Program

Abstract: Participation in group-based prescribed exercise program for 3 months may improve physical fitness and HRQoL significantly in short and long terms.

Cited by 27 publications

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Individual user involvement at Healthy Life Centres: a qualitative study exploring the perspective of health professionals

Individual user involvement at Healthy Life Centres: a qualitative study exploring the perspective of health professionals

The Norwegian Healthy Life Study: protocol for a pragmatic RCT with longitudinal follow-up on physical activity and diet for adults

Health behavior in the context of perceived social support in late adolescence

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