Alberta Centre for Active Living
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ABORIGINAL
This innovative e-learning resource
incorporates culturally relevant messages based on the guidelines, for use by
First Nations, Inuit and Métis recreation and health workers. To access the
interactive e-learning course, community of learning, and resource database,
you’ll need to sign up for an account on their Community Pages.
ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION
Every September, about 140,000 Danish
school children jump in the saddle during the national Bike to School campaign
which has been running annually since 2002. The organizers asked COWI to do an
independent evaluation of the last three years’ Bike to School campaigns, and
we now have the results.
CHILDREN
Health & Place Available online 18
Sept 2013 In Press
Highlights:
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We found parent fears
associated with children’s independent travel were constructed through complex
individual, social and environmental relations.
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Parents continually negotiated
between a desire to allow children independence and the need to limit risk.
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There was a clear understanding
of wider cultural influences on parent constructions of fear.
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Cultural influences were
balanced with personal experience, child attributes and personalities in
forming constructions of fear.
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The presence of others,
supportive environmental conditions and a focus on positive outcomes may
alleviate somewhat parental fear.
Children and young people need an
environment that is safe and supportive, where they are encouraged to be the best they can be
and can enjoy what they are doing….. Parents, coaches and instructors have a
major influence on the nature and quality of the environment where children and
young people participate. They can significantly influence the decisions
children and young people make, including the choice to keep participating or
to give up.
Physical activity is very important
during the early stages of a child’s life, and there are many psychosocial
benefits of families participating together; research suggests that the
behavior of fathers is particularly important in the development of childhood
obesity…….. The aim of the 12 month intervention and evaluation based research
project was to explore the impact of a six session physical activity
intervention on fathers’/male carers’ engagement with their preschool children.
Evaluation and Program Planning
Available online 18 Sept 2013
The purpose was to evaluate the reach,
dose, and fidelity of Guys Only Activity for Life (G.O.A.L.), a 7-week pilot
intervention conducted from February to March 2011 to increase 6th and 7th
grade boys’ moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA).
CONFERENCES
January 31, 2014 at the Hilton Lac-Leamy
in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, directly following the Canadian Sport for Life
National Summit!
OLDER ADULTS
Journal of the Neurological Sciences Vol
333, Suppl 1, 15 Oct 2013
doi:10.1016/j.jns.2013.07.1162
Moderate aerobic physical activity showed
benefit in stabilizing the cognitive status in patients with dementia.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Am J Prev Med 2013;45(4):501–507
mHealth technologies are increasingly
being employed to assess and intervene on PA in clinical, epidemiologic, and
intervention research. The wide variations in technologies used and outcomes
measured limit comparability across studies, and hamper identification of the
most promising technologies. Further, the pace of technologic advancement
currently outstrips that of scientific inquiry. New adaptive, sequential
research designs that take advantage of ongoing technology development are
needed.
Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
Available online 18 September 2013
The results support the hypothesis of
familial aggregation in PA. Further, fathers and mothers had a similar
influence on their offspring’s PA levels irrespective of their sex, and equal
sibling correlations point towards shared PA habits.
The Physical
Activity Exchange conducts applied research focused on physical activity,
sedentary behavior, fitness and health in laboratory and various real world
settings. We strive to use the best available science to conduct intervention,
observational, and evaluation research with populations ranging from pre-school
children through to older adults.
Infographics
are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended
to present complex information quickly and clearly.
RESEARCH STUFF
The Canadian Best Practices Portal is
back online! After a short hiatus to meet Treasury Board's Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines, we're now bigger, better and fully accessible!
The site consolidates multiple sources
of trusted and credible information in one place, making it a one-stop shop for
busy health professionals and decision-makers. The Portal also contains an
extensive, curated database of 339 chronic disease prevention and health
promotion best practice interventions,
This approach (integrating the Theory of
Planned Behavior into the Public Sector Scorecard) provides the missing link
between outputs and outcomes for behavior change as it provides a pathway to
understand how change might or indeed does occur.
URBAN DESIGN
A very good
design manual with interactive features and case studies (from the USA)
American Journal of Preventive Medicine Vol 45, Iss 4, Oct 2013, Pgs 386–392
Living in a smart growth community may
increase local physical activity in children as compared to residence in
conventionally designed communities.
