Stay active for life: physical activity across life stages

This paper concerns participation of Poles aged 15+ years in leisure time and transport-related physical activity (PA) with a special focus on the life stages. The purpose of the paper was to analyze types of exercises, current and future behavior concerning PA, availability of sport and recreation...

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Published in:Clinical interventions in aging 2018-01, Vol.13, p.1341-1352
Main Authors: Biernat, Elżbieta, Piątkowska, Monika
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Analysis
Cluster Analysis
Exercise
Female
Health
Humans
Interviews as Topic
Leisure Activities
life stages
Life Style
Male
Middle Aged
Motivation
Original Research
physical activity
Physical fitness
Poland
professionally active 50+ without children
Public health
Qualitative Research
recommendations
Recreational facilities
Retirees
retirees without children
Surveys
Surveys and Questionnaires
Target marketing
unemployed 50+ without children
World Health Organization
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Summary:This paper concerns participation of Poles aged 15+ years in leisure time and transport-related physical activity (PA) with a special focus on the life stages. The purpose of the paper was to analyze types of exercises, current and future behavior concerning PA, availability of sport and recreation facilities, and factors having the strongest relation with undertaking PA at a sufficient level according to pro-health recommendations of World Health Organization (WHO). A survey was carried out on the representative sample (n=2,000). Respondents were classified in accordance to their life stages with a two-step cluster analysis. Relationships between meeting the dose of PA required for health recommendations and a membership in groups of life stages were evaluated using log-linear analysis. The strength of this relationship was expressed by the odds ratio. In order to capture relationships between meeting WHO recommendations and a set of explanatory variables, a predictive model was built. Life stages and various related events have a significant relation with a decrease of PA. Among groups of a particular risk, there are professionally active and unemployed people aged 50-64 years without children as well as retirees aged 65+ years who do not meet WHO recommendations (45.3; 50.4% and 47.6%). The unemployed and retirees more frequently (
ISSN:1178-1998
1176-9092
1178-1998
DOI:10.2147/CIA.S167131