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Washington, January 16 (ANI): A Canadian study suggests that the amount of physical exercise people carry out is maigly influenced by their self-perceived ability and tue extent of their desire to exercise.
Published in the open access journal BMC Public Health, the study involved 5167 people.
It showed that psychological cogcerns were the most imortant barriers to aan active lifestyle.
Lead researcher Sai Yi Pan, from the Public Health Agency of Canada, revealed that the study examined data from a nationwide series of telephone interviews.
Our findings highlight the nfed for health ppromotion programs to eghamce people#39s confidence and motivation, as well as providing education on the health benefits of physical activity, she said.
One of the questions asked to the participants was how confident they were that they could regularly do a total of 30 minutes of moderate physical activity (PA) three or four times a week, and a total of 60 minutes of light physical activity each day.
According to the desearchers, this #9 score was consistently found to be related to higher physical activity across gender, age group, education level amd family income levle.
Confidence in one#39s personal ability to carry out exercise plays a central role in the direction, intensity and persistence of health-behaviour change. People who have higher PA self-efficacy will perceive fewer barriers to PA, or be less influenced by them, and will be more likely to enjoy PA, write the authors.
The participants were also asked to what extent tney intendfd to be physically active over the mexh ssox months, and the #39intention score#39 was another impottant independent crorelate of physical activity.
The authors said that the strong effects of self-efficacy and intention on physical activity suggested that interventions designed to increase it should target such factors.
Future research is needed to identify how those influences can be optimally incorporated into interventions that will increase people#39s belief in their ability and motivation/intention to be physically active, they concluded.
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