Physical Inactivity
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Physical Exercise (once weekly over 15 weeks, 50-100min per session, moderate intensity according to the American College of Sports Medicine
strenght-based, endurance-based as well as a mixture of strenght-based and endurance-based training)
Group 2: No physical exercise Intervention - maintaining the ordinary phyiscal activity level
Sponsors
Gesundheitsfonds Steiermark
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: (i) physically inactive men and women, defined by not meeting the American College of Sport Medicine’s (ACSM)/American Heart Association’s (AHA) physical activity recommendation for healthy adults or by not meeting the scoring criteria of “minimally active” in the International Physical Activity Questionnaire – Short Form (IPAQ-SF) (ii) age ranging between 18 and 65 (both inclusive) (iii) the physical and mental ability to participate in the physical exercise intervention as assessed by a physician.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: (i) Evidence of an acute or chronic disease, which prevented a safe participation in the physical exercise intervention
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Physical literacy is measured by a questionnaire in both groups (case group/control group) at study baseline and after the 15weeks lasting phyiscal exercise intervention periode (follwo-up). Thereby, the questionaire to measure physical literacy (80 items) was redesigned, consisting of valid and reliable questionnaire subscales covering the domains of the holistic physical literacy model. Questionnaire subscales were adopted from the questionairs as follows: SMS28, SIMS, BREQ-2, FKB-20, Stanford Five City Study questionnaire, IPAQ-SF. | — |
Countries
Austria
Contacts
Public ContactFrank Michael Amort
FH JOANNEUM Bad Gleichenberg
Outcome results
None listed