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How active are women who play bingo: a cross-sectional study from the Well!Bingo project
- Source :
- BMC Women's Health, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2017), Ryde, G C, Gorely, T, Jepson, R, Gray, C, Shepherd, A, Mackison, D, Ireland, A V, Williams, B, McMurdo, M E T & Evans, J M M 2017, ' How active are women who play bingo : a cross-sectional study from the Well!Bingo project ', BMC Women's Health, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 57 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-017-0405-z, BMC Women's Health
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- BMC, 2017.
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Abstract
- Background: The benefits of physical activity are well established, yet large numbers of people are not sufficiently\ud active to gain health benefits. Certain population groups are less physically active than others, including older\ud women from areas of high economic deprivation. The Well!Bingo project was established with the aim of engaging\ud such women in the development of a health promotion intervention in a bingo club. This paper reports on the\ud assessment of health status, physical activity and sedentary behaviour of women attending a bingo club in central\ud Scotland, UK as part of the Well!Bingo project.\ud Methods: Women attending the bingo club were invited to provide information on demographic characteristics, and\ud self-reported physical activity and sedentary behaviour via a self-complete questionnaire as part of a cross-sectional\ud study (n = 151). A sub-sample (n = 29) wore an accelerometer for an average of 5.7 ± 1.4 days. Differences between\ud younger (under 60 years) and older adults (60 years and over) were assessed using a chi-square test for categorical\ud data and the independent samples t-test was used to assess continuous data (p < 0.05).\ud Results: The mean age was 56.5 ± 17.7 years, with 57% living in areas of high deprivation (Scottish Index of Multiple\ud Deprivation quintile one and two). Sixty-three percent of women (n = 87) reported they were meeting physical activity\ud guidelines. However, objective accelerometer data showed that, on average, only 18.1 ± 17.3 min a day were spent in\ud moderate to vigorous physical activity. Most accelerometer wear time was spent sedentary (9.6 ± 1.7 h). For both\ud self-report and accelerometer data, older women were significantly less active and more sedentary than younger women.\ud On average, older women spent 1.8 h more than younger women in sedentary activities per day, and took part in 21 min\ud less moderate to vigorous physical activity (9.4 mins per day).\ud Conclusion: The findings of this study suggest that bingo clubs are settings that attract women from areas of high\ud deprivation and older women in bingo clubs in particular would benefit from interventions to target their physical activity\ud and sedentary behaviour. Bingo clubs may therefore be potential intervention settings in which to influence these\ud behaviours.
- Subjects :
- Male
Gerontology
Cross-sectional study
Health Status
Physical fitness
Psychological intervention
Community
0302 clinical medicine
Surveys and Questionnaires
RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Public health
education.field_of_study
lcsh:Public aspects of medicine
Obstetrics and Gynecology
General Medicine
Middle Aged
Social Participation
Test (assessment)
Health
Female
Club
Research Article
medicine.medical_specialty
Population
Reproductive medicine
610 Medicine & health
Health Promotion
lcsh:Gynecology and obstetrics
03 medical and health sciences
Games, Recreational
Journal Article
Humans
education
Exercise
lcsh:RG1-991
Aged
Population and Public Health Research Group
business.industry
Physical activity
lcsh:RA1-1270
030229 sport sciences
Sedentary behaviour
Accelerometer
Cross-Sectional Studies
Health promotion
Physical activity,Sedentary behaviour,Accelerometer,Community,Health
Reproductive Medicine
Self Report
Sedentary Behavior
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14726874
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMC Women's Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ad7485adc4ea5e1ff21720ce5e7b0a2e