Present:

a.        NIA interest in exercise adherence

1.  May contact group members in the future about this

b.       Update on environmental study and sites involved

1.        About 5 to 6 sites have included the survey of neighborhoods

2.        Abby King will continue to look at that on the impact of neighborhoods on activity

c.        Update on the Stage study

1.        Literature review has been done

2.        The sites involved cover the whole wide range/also little with objective measures

3.        Table looked at physical activity staging and exercise staging and is summarizing the literature.  The new information will add to the current literature. 

4.        Discussed purpose of why stage of change is being validated?  Concern is that this is being used as an outcome measure.
 

a.        Broke down into two groups for the 2  paper topics:

1.       Screening and Adverse Effects in Physical Activity Interventions:   Results from the BCC

a.        Mace Cody, Barbara Resnick and Marcia Ory will work on developing a proposal for RWJ to develop the ideas related to screening in adults and implications of screening both from a research to a clinical focus.

b.    Paper Conveners: Marcia Ory, Barb Resnick, Mace Coday.  Discussion notes: 

Purpose: A subgroup of interested persons met to discuss the topic for a paper on screening and safety issues relevant to BCC sites as well as others in the field.

 Present: Cynthia Castro, Leslie Pruitt, Melissa Napolotina (Stanford), Mace Coday (Tennessee), Molly Greaney (URI)

Content of Paper Outline: Consensus of group was that outline circulated via e-mail was comprehensive.

Interested but not Present: Abby King (Stanford), Barbara Resnick (Maryland), Deb Reibe, Carol Garber (URI), Lisa Strycker (ORI), and Hayden Smith (Tennessee).

Sites agreeing to provide data: Stanford, UT, ORI, URI, Maryland

 Writing Assignment Sign Up: (this sign up is evolving)

• Introduction Section: Marcia Ory, Barb Resnick, Mace Coday, Carol Garber (guidelines summary) & Hayden Smith (guidelines lit review)

• Methods Section: Leslie Pruitt and colleagues

• Results Section: Molly Greaney

• Discussion Section: Marcia, Mace, Barb, Deb Reibe & Carol Garber

 Additional Data: Lisa S. from ORI offered to contribute data from their site. Initial Action Plan:

1. The group agreed that first pass at data collection should be a request for each sites screening criteria first.

2. Lit reviews will begin initially with guidelines (from Hayden and Carol) and broader search for articles on screening by age groups will begin at Texas (Marcia's student).

3. A more detailed Activity Plan will follow late next week.

2.        Best Practices in Assessing Physical Activity over the Lifespan for intervention Studies: Recommendations from the Physical Activity Workgroup of the BCC

a.        Update with plans/outline for the paper

b.       Additional group members signed up to work on components of the paper

c.        Suggested that we try and start with developing a decision tree in terms of physical activity monitor and will ask Greg Welk to consider starting this as a way to help us move forward.

d.        Will have Greg review/develop decision tree and will send back to the group by September 1, 2002.

e.        Will set up a conference call in September to move forward on individual sections.
 

1. Barbara Resnick will inform the group of when proposals are due and will facilitate the development of the proposals.
     

1. Development of "Best Practices in Measurement of Physical Activity" will facilitate the process.