Community-based lifestyle interventions: changing behaviour and improving health.
OBJECTIVE: To explore the association between change in physical activity levels and fruit and vegetable consumption and changes in self-reported overall health and mental health, of residents living in deprived English communities. Design Household survey conducted in 2002 and repeated in 2004. Set...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Public Health Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 236 - 246 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Aug2007
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=105828732&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 105828732 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 17413842 1CA0 jtl: Journal of Public Health issn: 17413842 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Aug2007 vid: 29 iid: 3 pid: 622 pub: Oxford University Press / USA artinfo: ui: 105828732 105828732 2009683201 10.1093/pubmed/fdm041 NLM17601764 105828732 ppf: 236 ppct: 10 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Community-based lifestyle interventions: changing behaviour and improving health. aug: au: Blank L Grimsley M Goyder E Ellis E Peters J affil: School of Health and Related Research, Public Health, The University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 30 Regent Street, Sheffield S1 4DA, UK. sug: subj: Health and Welfare Planning Health Behavior Health Promotion Methods Life Style Poverty Areas Diet England Family Characteristics Happiness Mental Health Motor Activity Psychological Tests Residence Characteristics Classification Special Populations Surveys Human ab: OBJECTIVE: To explore the association between change in physical activity levels and fruit and vegetable consumption and changes in self-reported overall health and mental health, of residents living in deprived English communities. Design Household survey conducted in 2002 and repeated in 2004. Setting Thirty-nine deprived UK communities in areas participating in the New Deal for Communities (NDCs), a major government funded community development initiative. Participants Ten thousand four hundred and nineteen residents in NDC areas and neighbouring comparator areas. Main results Overall levels of physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption are low but a large positive change in diet or levels of physical activity is associated with a significant change in mental health (2.86 and 2.71, respectively: P < 0.01). Smaller, but also statistically significant, changes were found in physical health (0.07 and 0.05, P < 0.01). Specific dimensions of mental health which showed a large change in association with lifestyle change were those associated with 'peacefulness' and 'happiness'. CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that, for residents of these neighbourhoods, positive lifestyle changes such as increasing physical activity levels and increase in fruit and vegetable consumption are associated with positive changes in mental health. What this paper adds What is already known? Mental health, a key area of health inequality is related to physical health, and associated with education, employment, environment and community issues. There is known to be a relationship between improved lifestyle (increased physical activity levels and better diet) and better health. What does this study add? This study shows that over two years, measurable changes in lifestyle were associated with improvements in both mental health and self-reported overall health. The association of lifestyle changes with overall health, although statistically significant, were less significant than those with mental health over the same period, suggesting those wanting to measure the impact of community activity on health will be more likely to see a measurable short-term impact on mental, rather than overall self-reported health. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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