| 436 | Thursday, April 10, 2008 |
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| 2:45 PM-4:00 PM | Convention Center:202C |
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| Third Annual Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport Lecture: Evidence-Based Approaches to Promoting Physical Activity |
| Physical educators and physical activity researchers are interested in finding effective ways to encourage others to be more physically active. What are tried and true ways to promote physical activity? What programs work and which approaches need more research? The Guide to Community Preventive Services was compiled by public health experts to provide evidence-based approaches for conducting health promotion programs. In this lecture, Dr. Barbara Ainsworth, Professor of Exercise and Wellness at Arizona State University, will present three strategies endorsed by the The Community Guide to promote physical activity: Informational (community wide campaigns and point-of-decision prompts), behavioral and social (school-based physical education, social support interventions in community settings, and individually-adapted health behavior change programs), and environmental and policy approaches (creation or enhanced access to places for physical activity combined with informational outreach and street-scale and community-scale urban design and land use policies and practices). She also will give practical examples of how the evidence-based approaches can be used by AAHPERD scholars and practitioners to design physical activity programs within school and community settings.
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Keyword(s): research
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| Presider: Michael G. Bemben, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
| Speaker: Barbara E. Ainsworth, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ |