Healio

Q&A: Physical activity is 'an effective intervention for mental health conditions'

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An umbrella review revealed that physical activity was linked to a 43% reduction in mental health symptoms. PCPs ...
JSTOR Daily

Implementation of Physical Activity Interventions in Rural, Remote, and Northern Communities: A Scoping Review

Compared with urban centers, rural, remote, and northern communities face substantial health inequities and increased rates of noncommunicable disease fuelled, in part, by decreased participation in ...
Nature

Intervention centred on adolescents' physical activity and sedentary behaviour (ICAPS): concept and 6-month results

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the 6-month impact of a physical activity (PA) multilevel intervention on activity patterns and psychological predictors of PA among adolescents. The intervention was directed ...
Nature

Effects of a ‘school-based’ physical activity intervention on adiposity in adolescents from economically disadvantaged communities: secondary outcomes of the ‘Physical ...

Obesity prevention during adolescence is a health priority. The ‘Physical Activity 4 Everyone’ (PA4E1) study tested a multi-component physical activity intervention in 10 secondary schools from ...
BMJ

Do physical activity interventions combining self-monitoring with other components provide an additional benefit compared with self-monitoring alone? A systematic review and ...

Objective To determine the net effect of different physical activity intervention components on step counts in addition to self-monitoring. Design A systematic review with meta-analysis and ...
BMJ

Cost-effectiveness of interventions promoting physical activity

Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics, Charité University Medical Centre, 10098 Berlin, Germany Dr Falk Müller-Riemenschneider, MSc, Institute for Social Medicine, ...
CNN

Quick physical intervention stopped violent intentions; could it stop violence?

Someone’s desire to commit a physical or sexually violent act may be stopped with a quick physical intervention in the brain, according to new research. It’s early in the work, but scientists at the ...
University of Bristol

Innovative physical activity interventions for at risk and disadvantaged children and adults

Globally physical activity in adults and children is very low despite compelling evidence regarding the increased risk of disease and death from insufficient physical activity (PA). Despite national ...
Medindia

Physical Non-Pharmacological Intervention Decreases Immunization Pain in Infants

The pain associated with infant immunization can be decreased by the use of five S’s intervention (swaddling, swinging, shushing, side stomach position and sucking), according to a recent study ...
JSTOR Daily

Physical Interventions to Interrupt or Reduce the Spread of Respiratory Viruses: Systematic Review

Objective: To systematically review evidence for the effectiveness of physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses. Data extraction: Search strategy of the Cochrane ...
CNN

Quick physical intervention stopped violent intentions; could it stop violence?

Someone’s desire to commit a physical or sexually violent act may be stopped with a quick physical intervention in the brain, according to new research. It’s early in the work, but scientists at the ...