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Timing, experience, benefits, and barriers
— older women's uptake and adherence to an exercise program | | Author(s) | Joanie Sims-Gould, Karim Miran-Khan, Callista Haggis, Teresa Liu-Ambrose |
| Journal title | Activities, Adaptation and Aging, vol 36, no 4, October-December 2012 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, October-December 2012 |
| Pages | pp 280-296 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Older women ; Exercise ; Social policy ; Attitude ; Health [elderly] ; Preventative medicine. |
| Annotation | The purpose of the present study was to examine the experiences of older women who participated in a randomised controlled trial (RCT) physical activity intervention designed to test the influence of exercise on executive function (cognition). Specifically, the study was interested in why these women joined the RCT exercise programme (uptake) and why they continued (adherence). Data were collected from 84 older women enrolled in the RCT (average age 69.6 years) in 10 focus group sessions at two time points. Data were analysed using framework analysis. The findings showed that a range of factors influence both exercise uptake and adherence: timing in one's life, previous experience, physical benefits, personal barriers and commitment. These research findings have implications for understanding exercise and physical activity in later life as well as offering suggestions for programming. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130208224 A |
| Classmark | BD: CEA: TM2: DP: CC: LK2 |
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