Testing compliance to WHO guidelines for physical activity in Flanders insights from time-use diaries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Regular physical activity decreases the risk for numerous non-communicable diseases. The World Health Organization has suggested physical activity (PA) guidelines that, based on previous research, would provide health benefits to those who comply. The first guideline for health benefits suggests 150 min of moderate PA or equivalent per week. The guideline for additional health benefits suggests 300 min of PA or equivalent per week. The objective of this paper is to analyze to what extent these two WHO PA guidelines for adults are met in the Belgian region of Flanders. Furthermore, we are interested to see which groups are more or less likely to meet the PA guidelines.

Methods

Crosstables and logistic regressions are used on a sample of 3028 adults in the Be

SUBMITTER: Weenas D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6429766 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature