Virginia Tech
Improving exercise adoption: the effects of social support, personalized goal setting and feedback and prompting in a community walking program
Abstract
dc:description.abstractAssessed the effects of frequency of prompting (phone calls once a week versus once every three weeks) and content of prompting (feedback and goal setting versus "touching base") in a walking program designed to meet ACSM's cardiovascular exercise goals. Survival analysis using six months of data points and using the criteria of walking at least 20 minutes a day for a at least three times per week indicated an effect for more frequent versus less frequent prompting (50% and 15%), but not for feedback and goal setting versus "touching base" prompting (31% and 30%). The results suggested the efficacy of frequent prompting delivered in inexpensive ways as a means to increase exercise adherence and the further parametric study of other basic behavior change strategies.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph. D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- doctoral
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Psychology
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Psychology
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Virginia Tech
- Year dc:date.issued
- 1993
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Lombard, David Neubauer
- Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
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- Winett, Richard A.
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Finney, Jack W.
- Geller, E. Scott
- Southard, Douglas R.
- Rankin, Janet L. Walberg
Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
- Language dc:language.iso
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Other
- etd-06062008-145000
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/37968