QUARTER 2: April - June 2013 | USC-PRC Notes
"Promoting Health through Physical Activity"
Topics in this issue
NEWS YOU CAN USE:
Remembering Dr. Toni Yancey
Record Month for National Bike challenge!
Live Healthy America's 2013 10-Week Wellness Challenge Gets More Than 70,000 People Moving
Global Education Campaign Launched by EIP Institute - Paediatricians Unite to Diffuse Children's Health 'Lifestyle' Time Bomb
Upcoming Events and Observances: July, August, September
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN WASHINGTON:
H.R.2179 - Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans Act
RESEARCH NOTES:
Increasing Physical Activity in Under-Resourced Communities Through School-Based, Joint-Use Agreements, Los Angeles County, 2010–2012
PRC Program Celebrates Older Americans Month:
- Environments for Healthy Aging: Linking Prevention Research and Public Health Practice
- Beliefs and Communication Practices Regarding Cognitive Functioning Among Consumers and Primary Care Providers in the United States, 2009
Role of Physical Activity in the Relationship Between Urban Green Space and Health
The U.S. National Physical Activity Plan: Dissemination and Use by Public Health Practitioners
The Stanford Leisure-Time Activity Categorical Item (L-Cat): a Single Categorical Item Sensitive to Physical Activity Changes in Overweight/Obese Women
REPORTS, SURVEYS, GUIDELINES, RESOURCES:
Adult Participation in Aerobic and Muscle-Strengthening Physical Activities — United States, 2011 (MMWR)
"The New Majority: Pedaling Toward Equity"
Pedestrian Safety: a Road Safety Manual for Decision-Makers and Practitioners
IOM Report on PE as Crucial Component of Curriculum
PROMOTING ACTIVE COMMUNITIES:
Citi Bike, NYC Bike-Sharing Program, Logs More Than 1 Million User Miles
Minneapolis Ranked Nation’s Top Park System
Gov. Nixon Launches Challenge in Springfield to Encourage Physical Activity in Missouri's Great Outdoors
Ottawa Public Health Pilots New Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Guidelines at Five Municipal Child Care Centres
UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS:
July, August, September
USC PREVENTION RESEARCH CENTER UPDATE:
Sumter County on the Move! Completes Enrollment
USC PRC Researchers Present at ACSM
NEWS YOU CAN USE:
Remembering Dr. Toni Yancey
The physical activity research community suffered a great loss on April 23, 2013, when Dr. Antronette (Toni) Yancey passed away after a year-long battle with lung cancer. Dr. Yancey was a well-loved professor of public health at UCLA, and the founder of “Instant Recess®” -- a “MOVEment of ACTIVE-ists dedicated to making America healthier 10 minutes at a time.” An instant recess was held in her honor on May 7, 2013, when friends and colleagues gathered around the world for a 10-minute activity break.
[Source: Prevention Institute]
Record Month for National Bike challenge!
The 2013 National Bike Challenge kicked off on May 1, and is off to a great start with record-breaking participation in May. The Challenge set goals for national participation in the online bicycle event, a competition where cyclists from around the country log their mileage and compete for prizes. The challenge set a goal of 50,000 participants logging 20 million miles, which they are now on their way to meeting.
[Source: National Bike Challenge]
Live Healthy America's 2013 10-Week Wellness Challenge Gets More Than 70,000 People Moving
April 4 marked the end of Live Healthy America’s corporate wellness program, and they proudly celebrated the 71,821 who completed the program, and together logged 2,308,928 hours of physical activity and lost 228,273 pounds. The CEO of Live Healthy America, Troy Vincent, emphasized the importance of the social aspect of the program, and the support community that the participants build as they work through the challenge together. More than 300 businesses and community organizations nationwide as well as the Live Healthy Iowa Challenge participated this year, setting team goals for healthy food shopping, suggestions for workouts, and working on making their overall lifestyle healthier.
[Source: Virtual Strategy]
Global Education Campaign Launched by EIP Institute - Pediatricians Unite to Diffuse Children's Health 'Lifestyle' Time Bomb
The Excellence in Paediatrics Institute, a global community of pediatric healthcare professionals, announced a new educational initiative to help support families in making lifestyle changes, called PEARL-- “Promote Energy balance, Active and Real Living”. The program has the backing of international stakeholders, including: The International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education, the European Food Information Council, and the International Alliance of Patients' Organizations, as well as national obesity associations from around the world. PEARL aims to enable healthcare providers worldwide to better understand and manage immediate and long-term health questions related to diet, nutrition, hydration, and physical activity.
[Source: AMEinfo]
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OBSERVANCES:
JULY
Park and Recreation Month
July 1-31, 2013
National Youth Sports Week
July 8-13, 2013
AUGUST
none
SEPTEMBER
America On The Move, Steptember
September 1-30, 2013
Fruit and Veggies - More Matters Month
September 1-30, 2013
Gynecological Cancer Awareness Month
September 1-30, 2013
Healthy Aging® Month
September 1-30, 2013
National Cholesterol Education Month
September 1-30, 2013
National Yoga Month
September 1-30, 2013
Whole Grains Month
September 1-30, 2013
World Alzheimer's Month
September 1-30, 2013
European Mobility Week
September 16-22, 2013
Active Aging Week
September 22-28, 2013
Walk to Work Day [Australia]
September 3, 2013
Alzheimer's Action Day
September 21, 2013
National Women's Health & Fitness Day
September 25, 2013
World Heart Day
September 28, 2013
Family Health and Fitness Day USA
September 28, 2013
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN WASHINGTON:
H.R.2179 - Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans Act
Reps. Ron Kind (D-Wis.) and Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) proposed a bipartisan bill to the House that would require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to prescribe exercise guidelines for Americans. H.R. 2179, Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans Act, was driven by their concerns about helping to promote healthy exercise habits, especially among schoolchildren. Under their bill, HHS would publish a report on "Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans" every 10 years. The report would contain exercise guidelines, which would be promoted by federal agencies that promote good health. The bill was referred to the Subcommittee on Health on May 24, 2013.
[Source: Congress.gov & The Hill]
RESEARCH NOTES:
Increasing Physical Activity in Under-Resourced Communities Through School-Based, Joint-Use Agreements, Los Angeles County, 2010–2012
While many public health researchers have advocated for joint-use agreements between schools and cities or communities to allow for use of sharing the facilities to promote physical activity after school hours, there has been little evaluation of the effectiveness of these programs. Using an adapted version of the System for Observing Play and Recreation in Communities (SOPARC), researchers in the Los Angeles County observed the use of 12 school sites, 7 of which had joint-use agreements. The results of the school observations showed that community members were much more likely to use school sites with joint-use physical activity programs (16 times more likely), demonstrating that joint-use agreements could be an effective and cost-effective channel for community physical activity promotion.
Lafleur M, Gonzalez E, Schwarte L, Banthia R, Kuo T, Verderber J, Simon P. (2013) Increasing physical activity in under-resourced communities through school-based, joint-use agreements, los angeles county, 2010-2012. Prev Chronic Dis.
PRC Program Celebrates Older Americans Month
Each May is Older Americans Month, and this year the theme was “Unleash the Power of Age”. Since 2001, a subgroup of the PRCs have partnered with the CDC’s Healthy Aging Program, which has funded the Healthy Aging Research Network (HAN). In April, two articles were published by HAN and CDC’s Healthy Aging Program, featured below.
[Source: CDC]
1. Beliefs and Communication Practices Regarding Cognitive Functioning Among Consumers and Primary Care Providers in the United States, 2009
2. Environments for Healthy Aging: Linking Prevention Research and Public Health Practice
Beliefs and Communication Practices Regarding Cognitive Functioning Among Consumers and Primary Care Providers in the United States, 2009
There is little known about the communication between primary care provider’s communication with patients about maintaining cognitive functioning, including the concordance of consumers and primary care providers’ perceptions of this communication and their beliefs about how lifestyle behaviors influence cognitive functioning. Using Porter Novelli’s HealthStyles survey and DocStyles survey, researchers surveyed 4,728 consumers 1,250 providers, then compared their responses about communication on maintaining health and cognitive function. Overall, consumers reported that intellectual stimulation (86.6%), physical activity (82.6%), and healthful diet (82.5%) were important for cognitive health, while providers reported that they advised patients to maintain mental functioning through physical activity (85.9%), intellectual stimulation (80.3%), and social involvement (67.4%). The results also showed that most consumers reported receiving the information they had from mass media (e.g., television), rather than from their providers, suggesting that more research on media messages is needed.
Friedman DB, Rose ID, Anderson LA, Hunter R, Bryant LL, Wu B, Deokar AJ, Tseng W. Beliefs and communication practices regarding cognitive functioning among consumers and primary care providers in the United States, 2009. Prev Chron Dis.
Environments for Healthy Aging: Linking Prevention Research and Public Health Practice
Safe and well-designed community environments support healthful behaviors that help prevent chronic conditions and unintentional injuries and enable older adults to be active and engaged in community life for as long as possible. This article describes the work of the Healthy Aging Research Network (HAN) and partners over the past decade to better understand place-based determinants of health and translate that knowledge to real-world practice, with a focus on environmental strategies. The authors use the Knowledge to Action framework (read more here: http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2011/mar/10_0012.htm) to describe the interdisciplinary work needed to move research to practice, including extensive collaboration between researchers and communities.
Hunter RH, Anderson LA, Belza B, Bodiford K, Hooker SP, Kochtitzky CS, Marquez DX, Satariano WA. Environments for healthy aging: linking prevention research and public health practice. Prev Chron Dis.
Role of Physical Activity in the Relationship Between Urban Green Space and Health
Researchers in New Zealand used data from the New Zealand Health Survey 2006/07 along with data on the neighborhood-level green space availability to examine the association between green space, mental health, and physical activity in adults. The survey results showed that mental health was improved and risk of cardiovascular disease reduced in neighborhoods with more green space. Physical activity mediated the relationship between green space and mental/cardiovascular health, although it did not fully explain the relationship.
Richardson EA, Pearce J, Mitchell R, Kingham S. Role of physical activity in the relationship between urban green space and health. Public Health.
The U.S. National Physical Activity Plan: Dissemination and Use by Public Health Practitioners
The U.S. National Physical Activity Plan of 2010 contains a wide variety of recommended policies and programs targeted at increasing the physical activity of the American public. Guided by the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework and Diffusion of Innovations theory, researchers surveyed physical activity practitioners to examine how well the Physical Activity Plan has been disseminated. Overall, the practitioners reported high awareness of the plan, especially among state-level practitioners, and most people who reported using the Plan said that they had used it in the brainstorming and discussion phase of their work. The survey results show that while awareness of the Plan is high, more work could be done to help practitioners integrate it into all levels of their practice.
Evenson KR, Brownson RC, Satinsky SB, Eyler AA, Kohl HW 3rd. The U.S. National Physical Activity Plan: dissemination and use by public health practitioners. Am J Prev Med.
The Stanford Leisure-Time Activity Categorical Item (L-Cat): a Single Categorical Item Sensitive to Physical Activity Changes in Overweight/Obese Women
While physical activity is essential for chronic disease prevention, few adults meet physical activity recommendations, and there is a need for brief assessment tools so that clinicians can reliably and validly assess activity and track changes across time. Researchers tested the psychometric properties of a new single item tool, the Stanford Leisure-Time Activity Categorical Item (L-Cat), comprising six descriptive categories ranging from inactive to very active, in a randomized behavioral weight-loss trial with overweight/obese women. The L-Cat had excellent test–retest reliability, adequate concurrent criterion validity, as well as demonstrated sensitivity to change in activity across a weight loss intervention that promoted walking. The authors conclude that the L-Cat has potential for clinical use such as tracking activity changes via electronic medical records, especially among overweight/obese populations who are unable or unlikely to reach national recommendations.
Kiernan M, Schoffman DE, Lee K, Brown SD, Fair JM, Perri MG, Haskell WL. The Stanford Leisure-Time Activity Categorical Item (L-Cat): a single categorical item sensitive to physical activity changes in overweight/obese women. Int J Obes (Lond).
REPORTS, SURVEYS, GUIDELINES, RESOURCES:
Adult Participation in Aerobic and Muscle-Strengthening Physical Activities — United States, 2011 (MMWR)
While most reports of the number of U.S. adults meeting physical activity recommendations have focused solely on the number of people meeting aerobic activity requirements, the CDC recently analyzed data from the 2011 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to see how many adults were meeting both the aerobic and strength-training recommendations. Current physical activity recommendations call for adults to accumulate at least 150 minutes a week of moderate-intensity aerobic activity (or 75 minutes a week of vigorous-intensity aerobic activity), as well engage in muscle-strengthening activities for all major muscle groups at least twice a week. Of interest, only 20 percent of adults meet the full recommendations, while nearly 50 percent of adults are getting the recommended amounts of aerobic activity and about 30 percent are engaging in the recommended muscle-strengthening activity. The report demonstrates the need to promote the full physical activity recommendations and perhaps provide more detailed support for adults to incorporate the full range of activities (aerobic and strengthening) into their lifestyles.
[Source: CDC]
"The New Majority: Pedaling Toward Equity"
Highlighting the changing demographics of the U.S. population, and the increasingly diverse composition of bicycle riders, this report by the Bike League discuses the challenges to promotion of bicycling, safety, and access to resources for “non-traditional” riders. The report raises the important issues of the lack of consideration traditionally for non-White citizens in transportation-related debates, and the fact that many bicycling-promotion programs have not targeted these citizens or their neighborhoods. While there are some new programs emerging, such as the Red White and Green program to promote biking in predominantly African American communities, there are still significant challenges to the promotion of safe transportation for all. The report discusses the disproportionately high rates of bicycle fatalities for Hispanic and African-American riders as compared to White, and discusses strategies for closing the gaps on access to and safety on bicycles in the U.S.
[Source: Bike League]
Pedestrian Safety: a Road Safety Manual for Decision-Makers and Practitioners
In response to the high levels of pedestrian injury and death worldwide, the United Nations released a report for a multidisciplinary audience including engineers, planners, police, public health professionals and educators to educate and empower them to make the world safer for walking. The report includes information on levels of pedestrian injury and death, as well as how to assess pedestrian safety and how to select, design, implement and evaluate effective interventions.
[Source: WHO]
IOM Report on PE as Crucial Component of Curriculum
The Institute of Medicine released a report calling for physical education to be integrated as a crucial component of school curricula. The report describes the low levels of physical activity participation by youth in the U.S., and explains the potential for the school environment as a place to feasibly, effectively, and sustainably improve the health of children. The report recommends a “whole of school” approach, in which all of the school’s resources are connected in a coordinated manner to create an environment that provides access, encouragement, and programs for physical activity. For more information on the recommendations, see the complete report.
[Source: IOM]
PROMOTING ACTIVE COMMUNITIES:
Citi Bike, NYC Bike-Sharing Program, Logs More Than 1 Million User Miles
New York City launched a new bike-sharing program at the end of May that allows users to borrow bikes and return them to any bike dock station in the city. There are 330 stations located throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn, and users can sign up for a daily, monthly, or annual pass. In less than one month of the program, more than 1 million miles were logged by the bike-share users, recently tallied at about 100,000 people.
[Source: Citi Bike & Newsweek]
Minneapolis Ranked Nation’s Top Park System
Minneapolis, Minnesota was recognized by the Trust for Public Lands last week for having the top park system among the 50 largest cities nationwide, according to the second annual ParkScore Index rating that evaluates park access, park size, and per capita park spending. In second place was New York, and last year’s winner, San Francisco was bumped to number three. "In Minnesota, safe, attractive, and accessible outdoor spaces are key to our much-valued quality of life. In our cities, we rely upon our parks for individual recreation, family outings, and community activities. I congratulate Minneapolis upon receiving this national recognition for providing our country's best park system," said Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton.
[Source: The Trust for Public Land]
Gov. Nixon Launches Challenge in Springfield to Encourage Physical Activity in Missouri's Great Outdoors
In an effort to get Missouri residents up and physically activity, Governor Jay Nixon has challenged residents to complete “100 Missouri Miles” by the end of the year, on the state’s greenways and hiking trails. The Governor and his wife kicked off the challenge by visiting the David C. Murray trailhead outside of Springfield. Residents can register for the challenge at mo.gov, where they can also see the progress of the Governor and First Lady.
[Source: KSPR]
Ottawa Public Health Pilots New Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Guidelines at Five Municipal Child Care Centres
Five municipal child care centers are now piloting the new health and physical activity guidelines supported by Ottawa Public Health. The new guidelines provide support and ideas for childcare centers to offer more adult-led physical activities, active play, and encourage adult staff to act as healthy eating and physical activity role models for the children.
[Source: Ottawa Start]
UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS:
JULY
2013 Annual National Wellness Conference
July 15-18, 2013
Stevens Point, WI
AUGUST
IDEA World Fitness Convention
August 7-11, 2013
Los Angeles, CA
4th Safe Routes to School Conference
August 13-15, 2013
Sacramento, CA
SEPTEMBER
NONE
USC PRC UPDATES:
Sumter County on the Move! Completes Enrollment
The USC Prevention Research Center’s group-based walking intervention study, Sumter County On The Move! has ended enrollment with 280 participants currently enrolled in walking groups of 4-8 members. The project is investigating whether strategies for mobilizing, supporting, and reinforcing existing social networks are effective for increasing physical activity levels among residents of Sumter County, SC. Although formal analyses are not complete, initial reports are that participants enjoy their group and are increasing their walking. For more information, visit: www.sumtercountymoves.org.
USC PRC Researchers Present at ACSM
Researchers from the USC Prevention Research Center presented two posters at the American College of Sports Medicine held in Indianapolis, May 28-June 1. One poster highlighted results from the STEPS to Health arthritis self-management study, while the other described results from the Faith, Activity, and Nutrition (FAN) program. The titles of the posters were:
- Wilcox, S., McClenaghan, B., Sharpe, P.A., Leith, K., Hootman, J.M., Baruth, M., Wingard, E., Ortaglia, A. (2013) Effects of a self-directed, multicomponent exercise program for adults with arthritis. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 45(5) Suppl, S313.
- Baruth, M., Wilcox, S. (2013). Psychosocial mediators of physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption in the Faith, Activity, and Nutrition (FAN) program. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 45 (Suppl), S135.
Writer: Danielle Schoffman
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