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Annalouise Muldoon Waterford IT

'Making the Best of What You Have' 'Making the Best of What You Have'

Using a settings based approach to Using a settings based approach to promoting physical activity. promoting physical activity.

Background

• There

is well documented evidence between physical activity (PA) and mortality (Type I evidence)

• Established effective strategies to instigate increases in

PA (Type II Evidence)

Background

• Absence of Type III Evidence
• Lack
• f

effective methods for

• r

examples

• f

dissemination

• f

interventions into community/real life settings

• Lack
• f

context specific, easily transferrable, successful interventions to assist dissemination

‘Making the Best of What You Have’

• Examples
• f

research conducted by staff in the Department

• f

Health, Sport and Exercise Science in Waterford Institute

• f

Technology (WIT) to promote increased physical activity in a variety of population groups with an emphasis on using existing resources.

• Women’s Mini Marathon – Aoife Lane and Niamh Murphy
• Waterford Active Schools Programme (WASP) – Niamh Murphy,

Annalouise Muldoon and Aoife Lane.

• Leg it to Loreto – Barry Lambe and Niamh Murphy.

Women’s Mini Marathon

• Participants

in Dublin and Cork 2008 Mini Marathon contacted prior to the event and three months post event to assess their PA levels (IPAQ)

• Final

matched sample

• f

n=3,853

Characteristics of Participants

• 60%

were repeat participants, 60‐70% primarily walked the 10km route

• Approximately

60% did some training for the event

• 37%

were high active at baseline, as per IPAQ categories (Bauman et al., 2009)

PA Behaviour of Participants

• Women’s

Mini Marathon was a useful PA promoting strategy but not all participants maintained increased PA levels post event (relapsers)

• Some never reached sufficiently active status
• Relapsers were the target group for the intervention.

Local Sports Partnerships (LSPs): national network of PA/sport promoting agencies supported by the Irish Sports Council Involved in building partnerships, sports development, coach education Less than a third of their time is actually allocated to promotion of PA, 82% cited it as a major challenge

Intervention Outline

Week Intervention

1 Information Packs: training plan, event registration/detail, stage matched PA booklets, tailored information sheets

Local

• pportunities

for PA Leisure centre details, fitness classes Training groups Walking/cycling routes and clubs Cluster specific

Summary of Evaluation of the Intervention

• Reach
• successful recruitment of typically hard to reach

groups (less educated, older, rural participants, parents)

• Effectiveness
• Significant increase in vigorous intensity activity in

intervention group only

• 78% of participants indicated their awareness of LSPs

increased

Effectiveness

a

= All data adjusted for cluster effects * p < 0.05 Baseline v Pre Intervention, † p < 0.05 Pre v Post Intervention ‡ p < 0 05 Baseline v Post Intervention

Summary of Evaluation of the Intervention

• Adoption/Implementation
• Successful co‐operation and engagement with PA promoting

agencies

• 65% used pedometers, 38% used walking/running routes, 20%

attended exercise classes

• 7‐8% contacted Meet and Train groups and LSPs

Maintenance

• Engagement

with LSPs to improve their communication strategies and efforts to promote PA

• New

physical activity resource/information website, dissemination of research using factsheets

Waterford Active School Programme‐WASP

• Designed

and implemented by the staff in Waterford Sports Partnership (WSP).

• The

aims was to increase awareness in families

• f

the importance

• f

being active and making activity a natural part

• f

daily living resulting in families being more active, more often.

• The

programme was evaluated by the staff

• f

WSP in collaboration with staff from WIT.

WASP Programme

• Four week intervention
• Children are encouraged to accumulate 60 mins
• f moderate‐vigorous PA (MVPA) for 5 days a

week

• Parents are encouraged to accumulate 30 mins
• f (MVPA) on 5 days of the week.
• Activities were recorded on a record card and the

teacher awards a sticker for both child and adult

• nce the target was reached.

Support Resources

Children’s Physical Activity Levels

Over 80% of the children enjoyed the WASP programme 63.4% reporting that they did more activity to collect the Wizzy stickers. Children’s favourite aspects included:

• doing the activities (72.7%),
• getting fitter (60.6%)
• 54.5% liked being active with their

parent/guardian.

• On going intervention
• Well

received by schools, children and parents.

• Raises

awareness

• f

the LSPs and what they have to offer.

Active Travel in Secondary Schools

• Part
• f

a larger Active Travel study in the area linked the Smarter Travel programme.

• Research

suggests that both children and parents are more

• pen

to cues about active transport when they move to new environments or engage with new organisations.

• Active

travel to school is an ideal

• pportunity

to increase incidental activity, particularly in girls

• Intervention taking place in 2 girls secondary

schools in county Kilkenny.

The Intervention

Intervention School (High Intensity) Control School (Low Intensity) December 2011 3 student focus groups March 2012 Physical activity and active travel survey March 2012 Physical activity and active travel survey April 2012‐2013 Intervention Phases 1+2 September 2012 Generic PA promotion week in the school May 2013 Physical activity and active travel survey May 2013 Physical activity and active travel survey

Some lessons learned already….

Higher Level Principles Lower level principles

Overall Findings

• Going

towards the CUSAI Mass participation event remember:

• Mass participation events have potential

to increase physical activity.

• Raising

awareness

• f

low physical activity levels is a crucial step in making the least active, more active.

• Successful

collaboration with PA agencies and use of existing resources,

• Identifying

a champion and getting management support are key elements in the success of any event.

Thank you for your attention

Contact Details

• Annalouise Muldoon –

amuldoon@wit.ie

• Aoife

Lane – alane@wit.ie

• Niamh Murphy –

nmurphy@wit.ie

• Barry Lambe

– blambe@wit.ie