TY - JOUR
T1 - Outcomes from the women's wellness project
T2 - A community-focused physical activity trial for women
AU - Napolitano, Melissa A.
AU - Whiteley, Jessica A.
AU - Papandonatos, George
AU - Dutton, Gareth
AU - Farrell, Nancy C.
AU - Albrecht, Anna
AU - Bock, Beth
AU - Bazzarre, Terry
AU - Sciamanna, Christopher
AU - Dunn, Andrea L.
AU - Marcus, Bess H.
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF #044224). The American Heart Association provided the Choose to Move materials in kind. We also thank Fernando Costa, MD, previously of the American Heart Association for his support of the project, as well as Yunxia Sui, MS, for assisting with the data analysis. Additionally, we would like to acknowledge the dedicated staff on the project: Melanie Bouchard, MS, Holly Escudero, BA, Paul Elsnau, MS, Cary Garcia, BS, Meghan Harwood, BA, Susan Pinheiro, BA, Janice Tripolone, MS, and Kate Williams, BS. Finally, we would like to thank the Southworth and Somerset Libraries for their support and dedication in creating a welcoming environment for our staff and participants.
PY - 2006/12
Y1 - 2006/12
N2 - Background: Given the low rates of physical activity participation, innovative intervention approaches are needed to make a public health impact. Methods: The study was conducted at the Miriam Hospital/Brown Medical School in Providence, RI, and in communities of Southeastern Massachusetts from 2002 to 2005. Previously sedentary women (n = 280; mean age = 47.1; 94.6% Caucasian) were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: (1) Choose to Move, a self-help printed booklet (n = 93), (2) Jumpstart, a motivationally tailored, print based intervention (n = 95); or (3) Wellness, women's health materials (n = 92). Face-to-face contact at months 3 (M3) and 12 (M12) occurred within participants' communities in local libraries. Results: At M3, participants in the Jumpstart condition reported significantly more minutes of physical activity per week (M = 140.4, SE = 14.82) than participants in the Wellness condition (M = 98.1, SE = 15.09), (t(275) = 2.00, p < 0.05). The Jumpstart arm showed a trend towards significance (t(275) = 1.93, p = 0.054) when compared with the CTM arm (M = 99.5, SE = 15.11); there was no significant difference between the CTM and Wellness arms (t(275) = 0.07, p = NS). At M12, there were no significant differences (F(2,275) = 0.147, p = NS) between any of the treatment arms. Conclusions: Results suggest that print-based programs for physical activity may be efficacious short-term, but more research is needed to find approaches that are effective long-term. It is possible to deliver print-based programs through existing community infrastructures, however these approaches need further evaluation to examine maintenance effects apart from the demand characteristics of a research study.
AB - Background: Given the low rates of physical activity participation, innovative intervention approaches are needed to make a public health impact. Methods: The study was conducted at the Miriam Hospital/Brown Medical School in Providence, RI, and in communities of Southeastern Massachusetts from 2002 to 2005. Previously sedentary women (n = 280; mean age = 47.1; 94.6% Caucasian) were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: (1) Choose to Move, a self-help printed booklet (n = 93), (2) Jumpstart, a motivationally tailored, print based intervention (n = 95); or (3) Wellness, women's health materials (n = 92). Face-to-face contact at months 3 (M3) and 12 (M12) occurred within participants' communities in local libraries. Results: At M3, participants in the Jumpstart condition reported significantly more minutes of physical activity per week (M = 140.4, SE = 14.82) than participants in the Wellness condition (M = 98.1, SE = 15.09), (t(275) = 2.00, p < 0.05). The Jumpstart arm showed a trend towards significance (t(275) = 1.93, p = 0.054) when compared with the CTM arm (M = 99.5, SE = 15.11); there was no significant difference between the CTM and Wellness arms (t(275) = 0.07, p = NS). At M12, there were no significant differences (F(2,275) = 0.147, p = NS) between any of the treatment arms. Conclusions: Results suggest that print-based programs for physical activity may be efficacious short-term, but more research is needed to find approaches that are effective long-term. It is possible to deliver print-based programs through existing community infrastructures, however these approaches need further evaluation to examine maintenance effects apart from the demand characteristics of a research study.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ypmed.2006.06.011
DO - 10.1016/j.ypmed.2006.06.011
M3 - Article
C2 - 16919322
AN - SCOPUS:35348864226
SN - 0091-7435
VL - 43
SP - 447
EP - 453
JO - Preventive Medicine
JF - Preventive Medicine
IS - 6
ER -
