Successful promotion of physical activity among students of medicine through motivational interview and Web-based intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Regular physical activity supports healthy behavior and contributes to the reduction of preventable diseases. Students in their social transition period are the ideal groups for interventions. The higher education period, associated with demanding changes and poor time management, results in a low level of physical activity. In this age, social media usually are a suitable channel of communication and multicomponent interventions are the most desirable. It has not been sufficiently investigated how effective a Web-based approach is among university students when it comes to physical activity in the long-term period. We combined a Web-based approach with motivational interviews and tested these two interventions together and separate to assess their impact on improving th

SUBMITTER: Mandic D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7353914 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature