Search results for "physical activity"

Social Competence and Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity of School-Aged Children through a Creative Physical Education Intervention

2019

Traditional school physical education focuses on physical skills or strategies with an expectation that learning these skills lead to healthier lifestyle outside physical education classes, while children’s overall moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) is widely decreasing. Creative Physical Education (CPE) understands physical education more holistically, as the central pedagogical element of movement is social learning. The current study examined the development of social competence in school physical education (PE) and total moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) participation through a CPE-based intervention. Participants were 363 (177 intervention, 186 control) children …

Mobility recovery after hip fracture and effects of a multi-component home-based rehabilitation program

2014

Maantieteelliset piirteet ja iäkkäiden henkilöiden liikkuminen ulkona (GEOage)

2021

This dataset is part of the “Geographic characteristics, outdoor mobility and physical activity of older people” (GEOage) project, in which freely available geographic information characterizing the environment is linked to participant data of the “Life-space mobility in old age” (LISPE) cohort comprising 75–90-years-old community-dwelling people living in Jyväskylä and Muurame in Central Finland (n=848). The GEOage dataset contains variables of environmental characteristics of participants' environment within 500 or 1000 m from home. The dataset comprises variables related to characteristics of nature (hilliness, nature and green areas, waterside areas) and built environment (land use, nei…

Indeksi liikuntaympäristöjen monipuolisuudesta asukkaiden lähialueella

2023

Liikunta on välttämätöntä terveyden ylläpitämiselle, ja sillä on lukemattomia positiivisia vaikutuksia sekä fyysiseen että psyykkiseen hyvinvointiin. Liikuntaympäristöjen monipuolisuus lähellä kotia voi edistää liikunnan harrastamista ja fyysisesti aktiivista elämäntapaa. Liikunnallisen elämäntavan mahdollistaminen kaikille, etenkin huono-osaisilla alueilla, voi tasoittaa alueiden välisiä hyvinvointieroja ja näin vähentää segregaation vaikutuksia. Suomessa yhdenvertaisten liikuntapalvelujen järjestäminen asukkaille on pääosin kuntien vastuulla. Tässä artikkelissa esittelemme uuden indeksin, jolla voidaan kuvata ja analysoida asukkaiden lähialueella olevien erityyppisten liikuntaympäristöjen…

Closed due to COVID-19: effects of indoor sports restrictions on suburban adults’ physical activity behaviours

2023

During the COVID-19 pandemic, people have been required adaptations in leisure-time physical activity (PA) especially due to restrictive policies concerning indoor sport facilities (ISF). This study investigated the effects of the constraints on ISF among residents of two low socioeconomic status suburbs in Finland. Research questions were: (1) Are sociodemographic characteristics associated with a reduced use of ISF during the pandemic? (2) Are sociodemographic characteristics associated with changes in the overall PA amount among those respondents with a reduced use of ISF? (3) Is the reduced use of ISF associated with an increased use of other PA environments (home environment, built out…

Effects of physical activity on neural markers of attention in children

2016

Huoli passiivisen elämäntavan vaikutuksista oppimisen edellytyksiin on kasvanut, kun lasten fyysinen aktiivisuus on vähentynyt. Useat tutkimukset tukevat fyysisen aktiivisuuden suojaavaa vaikutusta erilaisiin kognitiivisiin toimintoihin. Tarkkaavaisuuden kohdistaminen relevantteihin ärsykkeisiin näyttää olevan merkittävä osa oppimista, minkä vuoksi mielenkiinto on kohdistettu nykytutkimuksessa tarkkaavaisuuden mekanismeihin. Alfa-oskillaatioiden inhibitorinen rooli tarkkaavaisuudessa on saanut vahvistusta spatiaalista tarkkaavaisuutta selvittäneistä tutkimuksista. Alfa-oskillaatioiden on havaittu lateralisoituvan siten, että alfa-aktiivisuus laskee näköärsykettä prosessoivalla aivokuorella …

Somatosensory evoked fields after exercise induced pain

2017

The amount of research utilizing magnetoencephalography (MEG) has increased within the last few decades because of the development and better availability of equipment. With MEG, different areas of brain functionality can be studied in a variety of tasks and pathologies. Somatosensory evoked fields (SEF) are magnetic fields generated by tens of thousands of neurons firing in the primary somatosensory cortex. The purpose of this master’s thesis is to study the modulation of SEFs after exercise induced pain. The study was carried out in Jyväskylä Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research (CIBR). The study subjects (N=18, male 10, female 8) were healthy and suitable for MEG measurements. Dat…

Physical activity and aerobic fitness show different associations with brain processes underlying anticipatory selective visuospatial attention in ad…

2021

ABSTRACTUnderlying brain processes of exercise-related benefits on executive functions and the specific contribution of physical activity vs. aerobic fitness are poorly understood, especially during adolescence. We explored whether and how physical activity and aerobic fitness are associated with selective attention and the oscillatory dynamics induced by an anticipatory spatial cue. Further, we studied whether the link between physical exercise level and cognitive control in adolescents is mediated by the task-related oscillatory activity. Magnetoencephalographic alpha oscillations during a modified Posner’s cueing paradigm were measured in 59 adolescents (37 females and 22 males, 12 to 17…

Depressive symptoms, sense of coherence, physical activity and genetic factors among older people

2012

Does level of leisure time physical activity, in a sample of patients with depression, predict health care utilization over a subsequent 5-year perio…

2018

Objectives: The main aim of this study was to investigate the association between leisure time physical activity (LTPA) and health care utilization (HCU) and furthermore, socio-demographic and clinical factors according to LTPA level among depressed patients based on data drawn from the Finnish Depression and Metabolic Syndrome in Adults (FDMSA)-study (2009-2016). Methods: 447 depressed patients aged 35-65 from municipalities within the Central Finland Hospital District participated in this study. Depressive symptoms (DS) were determined with the Beck Depression Inventory (a 10 points) and the psychiatric diagnosis confirmed with a diagnostic interview (M.I.N.I.). Severity of depression was…