- Title
- Awareness of Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living in a large community sample
- Creator
- Plotnikoff, Ronald C.; Lippke, Sonia; Johnson, Steven T.; Hugo, Kylie; Rodgers, Wendy; Spence, John C.
- Relation
- American Journal of Health Promotion Vol. 25, Issue 5, p. 294-297
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4278/ajhp.090211-ARB-60
- Publisher
- American Journal of Health Promotion
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- Purpose: determine the proportion of adults aware of Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living (Guide) and its specific recommendations (objective 1); whether key demographic factors (objective 2a) and physical activity behavior (objective 2b) are associated with awareness and specific familiarity with the Guide; and if changes in awareness and specific recommendations with the Guide occurred over a 1-year period (objective 3a and 3b). Design: random selection with computer-assisted telephone interviewing. Setting: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Subjects: a total of 2803 adults 18 years or older completed interviews from 4831 telephone contacts (response rate, 58.0%), and after 1 year, 1423 individuals (55%) completed interviews. Measures: demographic, physical activity, Guide awareness. Analysis: Chi-square, analysis of variance. Results: at baseline, 27.3% were aware of the Guide, and 15.6% were familiar with the Guide's specific recommendations. Younger individuals (p = .01), women (p < .001), and those with a higher education (p < .001) were more likely to be generally aware of the Guide, and women were also more specifically aware (p = .01). Physical activity levels were positively associated with the general (p < .001) and specific (p < .001) awareness of the Guide. Changes in general familiarity and specific recommendations over 1 year were observed. Conclusions: the majority of those surveyed were not familiar with the Guide. Men, individuals with a lower education, and older individuals may need to be specifically targeted.
- Subject
- public health guidelines; physical activity; awareness; prevention research
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1053410
- Identifier
- uon:15583
- Identifier
- ISSN:0890-1171
- Language
- eng
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