Web-based interventions to promote physical activity by older adults: promising perspectives for a public health challenge
Web-based interventions to promote physical activity by older adults: promising perspectives for a public health challenge
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基于网络的干预措施促进老年人的身体活动：应对公共卫生挑战的前景
作者：
A. Mouton;M. Cloes
有规律的体力活动与广泛的健康益处有关。随着人口老龄化，促进体力活动应该特别针对老年人，这是一个不断扩大的群体，在不久的将来可能会增加医疗保健费用。关注老年人身体活动行为的创新干预措施展示了令人振奋的结果，最近一次是通过使用互联网。如果说老年人和互联网通常被认为是两个对立的概念，那么从公共卫生的角度来看，支持将它们结合在一起的论点已经被最近的文献所确认。老年人是增长最快的互联网用户群体，他们比年轻人更倾向于将互联网用于与健康相关的主题。基于网络的干预措施在包括体育活动在内的许多健康促进部门都是有效的。当干预措施针对每个老年人的环境决定因素，并专门为这一人群设计时，情况尤其如此。这些早期的研究结果必须得到明确的扩展，特别是关于基于网络的体力活动干预的长期影响。将降低现有文献中记录的高辍学率的解决方案也必须被视为优先事项，以确保这一前瞻性研究领域的发展。
Regular physical activity is associated with a wide range of health benefits. As population age, promotion of physical activity should specifically target older adults, an expanding group involving potential higher health care costs in the near future. Innovative interventions focusing on physical activity behaviors of senior adults exposed promising results, most recently through the use of the Internet. If seniors and Internet are generally considered as two opposite concepts, arguments in favour of bringing them together in a public health perspective have been identified by the recent literature. Older adults are the fastest growing group of Internet users and are more prone than younger to use it for health-related subjects. Web-based interventions are effective in many health promotion sectors, including physical activity. This is particularly true when interventions target the environmental determinants of each senior citizen and are specifically designed for this population. Those early research findings must clearly be extended, particularly regarding to the long term effects of Web-based physical activity interventions. Solutions that will reduce the high dropout rate recorded in the existing literature must also be considered as a priority in order to ensure the development of this forward-looking field of research.
影响因子：
5
作者：
Adams, SA;Matthews, CE;Hebert, JR
通讯作者：
Hebert, JR