Web-site-based tailored advice to promote strength and balance training: an experimental evaluation
Web-site-based tailored advice to promote strength and balance training: an experimental evaluation
This study evaluated a Web site providing tailored advice to encourage older people to undertake strength and balance training (SBT). Adults age 60-88 (N = 302) were randomized to read either generic advice or advice tailored to their self-perceived balance problems and activity preferences. Between-groups differences in attitudes toward SBT after reading the advice did not quite reach significance (p = .059), but the tailored group reported higher ratings than the generic group that the advice was personally relevant (p = .017) and that the activities would be good for them (p = .047). Within-groups differences in the tailored group showed that completing an action plan increased confidence in undertaking SBT (p = .006). These findings were supported by a meta-analysis that pooled the effect sizes with those of a previous study. Thus, a tailored Web site might be a cost-effective way of encouraging some older people to undertake SBT.
Accidental Falls/prevention & control, Age Factors, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Analysis of Variance, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Health Education, Humans, Internet, Male, Middle Aged, Muscle Strength/physiology, Postural Balance/physiology, Surveys and Questionnaires
210-22
Nyman, Samuel R
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Yardley, Lucy
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1 April 2009
Nyman, Samuel R
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Yardley, Lucy
64be42c4-511d-484d-abaa-f8813452a22e
Nyman, Samuel R and Yardley, Lucy
(2009)
Web-site-based tailored advice to promote strength and balance training: an experimental evaluation.
Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, 17 (2), .
(doi:10.1123/japa.17.2.210).
Abstract
This study evaluated a Web site providing tailored advice to encourage older people to undertake strength and balance training (SBT). Adults age 60-88 (N = 302) were randomized to read either generic advice or advice tailored to their self-perceived balance problems and activity preferences. Between-groups differences in attitudes toward SBT after reading the advice did not quite reach significance (p = .059), but the tailored group reported higher ratings than the generic group that the advice was personally relevant (p = .017) and that the activities would be good for them (p = .047). Within-groups differences in the tailored group showed that completing an action plan increased confidence in undertaking SBT (p = .006). These findings were supported by a meta-analysis that pooled the effect sizes with those of a previous study. Thus, a tailored Web site might be a cost-effective way of encouraging some older people to undertake SBT.
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Published date: 1 April 2009
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Accidental Falls/prevention & control, Age Factors, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Analysis of Variance, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Health Education, Humans, Internet, Male, Middle Aged, Muscle Strength/physiology, Postural Balance/physiology, Surveys and Questionnaires
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ISSN: 1063-8652
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