LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF LIFESTYLE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY INTERVENTION AND STRUCTURED EXERCISE INTERVENTION
- VernacularTitle:ライフスタイル方式とエクササイズ方式による身体活動介入の長期効果
- Author:
HISAO SUZUKI
;
HIDETAKA NISHIKAWA
;
NOBUYUKI MIYATAKE
;
YUKO NISHIDA
;
DA-HONG WANG
;
MASAFUMI FUJII
;
KAYO TAKAHASHI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Lifestyle physical activity intervention;
Structured exercise intervention;
Cost-effectiveness
- From:Japanese Journal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine
2006;55(2):229-236
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
-
Abstract:
To promote habitual participation in physical activity, a 3-month program for lifestyle physical activity intervention (L group) and structured exercise intervention (E group) was carried out in a community in Okayama Prefecture. One year later, we compared the two intervention groups in terms of cost-effectiveness and behavioral change in habitual physical activity. A total of 250 subjects voluntarily participated in the lifestyle physical activity intervention ; and a total of 42 subjects participated in the structured exercise intervention. The number of participants decreased to 115 (46%) and 21 (50%), respectively, one year later. However, the proportion of subjects who practice endurance exercise increased significantly in both L and E groups ; and an additional 35 subjects (30%) started to practice endurance exercise in L group and 5 (24%) in E group after the interventions. The cost-effectiveness for a person newly starting the endurance exercise practice in the L group intervention was 29,206 yen ; and the E group intervention was 124,731 yen, a ratio of 1/4.3. The study suggests that the cost-effectiveness for the lifestyle physical activity intervention was 4 times better than the structured exercise intervention.
