Web-based interventions to promote physical activity by older adults: promising perspectives for a public health challenge

Archives of Public Health

Alexandre Mouton¹  Marc Cloes¹ 

[1] Department of Sports and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Liège, Allée des Sports, 4, 4000, Liège, Belgium

关键词: Physical activity promotion;    Computer;    Technology;    Internet;    Exercise;    Older adults;    Web-based intervention;    Physical activity;   

Others  :  790820
DOI  :  10.1186/0778-7367-71-16

 received in 2013-05-06, accepted in 2013-07-01,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Mouton and Cloes; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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