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Increasing physical activity through self-monitoring, goal setting, and feedback
Behavioral Interventions (2008)
  • Matthew P. Normand, University of the Pacific
Abstract
Excess body weight, especially obesity, is a problem of increasing social significance, and weight gain is often correlated with age. Because physical activity can both decrease current body weight and prevent weight gain, it is an especially suitable target for behavioral intervention. A package intervention consisting of self-monitoring, goal setting, and feedback was used to increase the physical activity of healthy adults. A combined multiple-baseline and reversal design was arranged to evaluate the effects of the intervention on the number of steps taken each day by participants, as recorded by a pedometer. The intervention increased the number of steps taken across participants, but there were no changes in participant body weight during the intervention. The results suggest that a relatively simple and low-cost intervention can be used to increase the physical activity of some adults.
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Publication Date
November 1, 2008
DOI
10.1002/bin.267
Citation Information
Matthew P. Normand. "Increasing physical activity through self-monitoring, goal setting, and feedback" Behavioral Interventions Vol. 23 Iss. 4 (2008) p. 227 - 236 ISSN: 1072-0847
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/matthew-normand/26/