Improving exercise adoption: the effects of social support, personalized goal setting and feedback and prompting in a community walking program

Assessed 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.

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 dc:creator

• Lombard, David Neubauer

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Winett, Richard A.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Finney, Jack W.
• Geller, E. Scott
• Southard, Douglas R.
• Rankin, Janet L. Walberg

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

etd-06062008-145000

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/37968