Development of community intervention strategy for physical activity promotion of whole population

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24300232
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Applied health science
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: ARAO Takashi 早稲田大学, スポーツ科学学術院, 教授 (00409707)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KUBOTA Akio 東海大学, 体育学部, 講師 (40547973)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ヘルスプロモーション / 地域介入 / 集団戦略 / 身体活動 / インセンティブ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The community intervention for promotion of physical activity among the whole population has been conducted for 18 months using the stragegies of improvement of sport and exercise facilities, incentive services for health behabiors, and training the citizens for coordinater. Investigations were conducted before and after the intervention, using 3200 subjects randomly sampled among the whole population in each community. The results showed that recognition of improvement of sport facilities in the community was significantly improved in the intervention community. However, the prevalence rate of the people who achieved the recommended physical activity level(more than 23 MET・h/week) in Japanese Physical Activity Guidline did not show significant improvement.

Free Research Field

応用健康科学