Effect of a primary health-care-based controlled trial for cardiorespiratory fitness in refugee women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Refugee women have a high risk of coronary heart disease with low physical activity as one possible mediator. Furthermore, cultural and environmental barriers to increasing physical activity have been demonstrated. The aim of the study was to evaluate the combined effect of an approximate 6-month primary health care- and community-based exercise intervention versus an individual written prescription for exercise on objectively assessed cardiorespiratory fitness in low-active refugee women.

Methods

A controlled clinical trial, named "Support for Increased Physical Activity", was executed among 243 refugee women recruited between November 2006 and April 2008 from two deprived geographic areas in southern Stockholm, Sweden. One geographic area provided the interventi

SUBMITTER: Sundquist J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2921106 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature