Interventions to Increase Physical Activity in Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Regional and Rural Areas: A Realist Synthesis Review Protocol.

ABSTRACT: The importance of physical activity (PA) for the health and wellbeing of older adults is well documented, yet many older adults are insufficiently active. This issue is more salient in regional and rural areas, where evidence of the most critical components of interventions that explain PA participation and maintenance in older populations is sparse. This realist review will (1) systematically identify and synthesise literature on PA interventions in community-dwelling older adults in regional and rural areas, and (2) explore how and why those interventions increase PA in that population. Using a realist synthesis framework and the behaviour change wheel (BCW), context-mechanism-outcome (C-M-O) patterns of PA interventions for older adults in regional and rural areas will be

SUBMITTER: Cousins S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10037574 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature