A Multimodal Counseling-Based Adolescent Physical Activity Intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

National guidelines recommend adolescents achieve 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA)/day, yet few adolescents meet these guidelines.

Methods

We piloted a novel quasi-randomized physical activity intervention to promote adolescent's use of their surrounding built environment among 30 intervention and 30 control overweight/obese adolescents aged 10-16 years living in greater Boston from 2013 to 2015. Location-specific MPVA was measured by accelerometry and global positioning system for three one-week periods (Time 1 [T1], Time 2 [T2], and Time 3 [T3]). One month after T1, intervention participants received individualized counseling on how to use their surrounding built environment to increase MVPA, and control participants received standard-of-

SUBMITTER: Oreskovic NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5002229 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature