Kinesiology 3476F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Oncology, Gastroenterology, Accelerometer
24 Oct 2017
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Study: colon cancer information as a source of exercise motivation. Assessed the limitations in the previous study (what if we used facts instead of bogus information, as well as different audience). Goal was to reproduce the findings while addressing the limitations from the previous study. The purpose of the proposed project is to extend the work of courneya and hellsten and examine the effectiveness of an intervention strategy grounded in pmt that seeks to modify exercise behaviour in relatively inactive middle-aged adults. Inactive individuals were targeted because some theorists have suggested that a stage-matched intervention approach is necessary for positive health behaviour change (prochaska & marcus, 1993) Replication study to address the 3 limitations in the previous study. Measured activity in this sample at the end. When targeting messages, there needs to know how much activity the audience does to begin with to measure the change before and after.
