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Summary of Physical Activity Workgroup

December 06-07, 2001, Dallas, TX

Present:
Terry Bazzarre, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Lynne Braun, Rush Presbyterian
Cynthia Castro, Stanford University
Abby King, Stanford University
Lisa Klesges, University of Tennessee, Memhpis
Chuck Matthews, USC
Claudio Nigg, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Marcia Ory, NIA
Barbara Resnick, University of Maryland
Deb Riebe, University of Rhode Island
Greg Welk, Iowa State University
 
1.

Environmental Survey
Psychosocial determinants are inadequate for fully describing why individuals exercise or don’t. At the Cooper Institute there was a lot of discussion about environment.  Suggestion was to incorporate the Environmental Survey into studies.  In includes an assessment of the environment with regard to supporting activity.  Also considers social component of the neighborhood. 
  1. What are the different environments in different regions in the country?
  2. Cross sectional evaluation?
  3. Psychometric …either repeat use of differences by age group?
  4. Environment and quality of life? 
  5. Environment and GIS-linkages between perception and what GIS reveals
  6. Those sites with common physical activity measures:  Stage of Change for example
  7. Case series
  8. Thematic papers around environment
  9. Funding resource issues….NIH?
  10.  Supplemental Qs:  BRFSS, NIHS, IPAC
  11. Integrate complementary data from concurrent studies
  12. Close out sample

Action: Small group to come up with options for activity: Abby, Chuck, Lisa, Leslie, Lynne, Greg, Melissa
2.

Data Guidelines (Chuck)

Update of data
Who will share data?
If sharing, who receives data?
Who and how will data analysis be performed?
Who will be credited in publications?
What kinds of data will be requested?
Review criteria for proposals and publications?

Action:  To focus on specific projects.
3. Cross-Site Projects 
  1. Aging:  Barbara
  2. Description PA-Women-Abby:  Might incorporate with environmental piece. 
  3. Mediators:  Lisa, Abby, Claudio
    Circulated a list of mediators. 
  4. Cost-Abby (on the Web…under HER supplement)
  5. Treatment/Fidelity
  6. Validation studies:  Chuck, Leslie, Greg, Claudio
  7. Criterion definitions for physical activity
    How do we define success? A lot of the cost effectiveness and qol /success may be someone who moves out of their sedentary sedentary.  Action:  Each should go back to groups and review with methodologist the whole idea of defining success.  Circulate the paper/Steven Wolf JAMA 1999.  Abby, Lisa, Claudio, Barbara;   will take the lead on working with Geoff on this.
  8. Re-aim:  David will serve as the coordinator
  9. Social support as related to activity
  10. Theoretical Invariance                 
4. Nutrition/PA Workgroups (Greg) 
International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA):  Greg to chair one on Physical activity and nutrition.  David to chair one on mediators (July 12-13 in Seattle).  (1) generalizing behavior change; (2) combining for long term success by combining physical and diet; (3) transfer of behavioral skills….physical activity to spread to other behaviors;  (4) energy intake, expenditure and balance. 
  
5. SBM Update
Barbara and request for feedback from group on thoughts regarding implementing theory based interventions.
  
6. GIS Survey/Lifestyle Segmentation (Fred Fridinger/Greg Welk)
  1. Advantage might be related to recruitment to get a better sense of potential participants
  2. Might want to target interventions based on demographics
  3. Application to dissemination of findings
  4. Generalizability of the findings