Kinesiology 3476F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Systematic Review
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Provides info necessary to motivate and maintain behaviour change. Info is used to: highlight benefits, increase awareness of opportunities, overcoming barriers and increase participation. Messages in an environment (usually natural environments) that help facilitate behaviour change by: reminding pre-dispositioned people to perform a behaviour (already have the intention, showing opportunities and benefits to performing that behaviour. Study 1: evaluation and modification of exercise patterns in the natural environment (bownell, 2 weeks of baseline observation (weeks 1 and 2: with 2 baseline weeks they can compare and see if there was something going on that may have affected their results weeks were similar and thus nothing altering results. 2 weeks of intervention observation (weeks 3 and 4) Results: intervention seemed most effective for males under age 30 who weren"t classified as overweight. Study 2: evaluation of modification of exercise patterns in the natural environment ii (brownell,