Inside UNF Vol. 8 No. 10

The monthly publication for faculty and staff of the University of North Florida. This edition includes the following articles: Kline Outlines UNF\u27s Future Coggins\u27 Gift has Lasting Benefits for UNF Escalante Says Believing in Students is Key to Success Founding President Recalls Opening of UNF Faculty & Staff Board Discusses Division I Status for UNF Sports Center Explores Ethics of American Business UNF Launches Exchange Program with China UNF College of Education and Duval Schools Announce Initiative Desmond Tutu to Teach Credit and Non-Credit Courses at UN

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Sedentary Behavior and the Use of Wearable Technology: An Editorial

Globally, we continue to face a mounting issue of obesity combined with inactivity; sedentary behaviour is independently associated with poor health outcomes including disease and mortality. As such, exploring ways to try to reduce sedentary behaviour and decrease the risk of diseases is an important area of consideration. The role of wearable technology, such as fitness trackers, to encourage and subsequently increase physical activity is relatively well documented. These devices have been successful at encouraging populations to increase daily activity levels. While time being sedentary is often correlated with physical activity participation, this is not always the case. Therefore, it may be just as important to consider the activity an individual is not doing when evaluating health and well-being. This Editorial will summarize the importance of distinguishing between physical activity and sedentary behaviour. It will also discuss how wearable technology, in the form of fitness trackers, may be used to encourage someone to break up sedentary bouts more often. Finally, we will consider important future research directions

Spartan Daily, November 3, 1966

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Assessing physical activity and function in patients with chronic kidney disease: a narrative review

Physical activity potentially improves health outcomes in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and recipients of kidney transplants. Although studies have demonstrated the beneficial effects of physical activity and exercise for primary and secondary prevention of non-communicable diseases, evidence for kidney patients is limited. To enlarge this evidence, valid assessment of physical activity and exercise is essential. Furthermore, CKD is associated with a decline in physical function, which may result in severe disabilities and dependencies. Assessment of physical function may help clinicians to monitor disease progression and frailty in patients receiving dialysis. The attention on physical function and physical activity has grown and new devices have been developed and (commercially) launched on the market. Therefore the aims of this review were to summarize different measures of physical function and physical activity, provide an update on measurement instruments and discuss options for easy-to-use measurement instruments for day-to-day use by CKD patients. This review demonstrates that large variation exists in the different strategies to assess physical function and activity in clinical practice and research settings. To choose the best available method, accuracy, content, preferable outcome, necessary expertise, resources and time are important issues to consider.Clinical epidemiolog

Unpacking Pieces of a Puzzle: Understanding Obesity-Related Health Risk through Lifestyle Behaviours and Well-Being

The primary objective of this non-experimental study was to examine the differences based on obesity-related health risk in terms of physical activity, sedentary behaviour and well-being in adults. Participants (N = 50; Mage = 38.50, SDage = 14.21) were asked to wear a SenseWear Armband (SWA) across a seven day monitoring period followed by a questionnaire package. Using the National Institute of Health’s (1998) criteria, participants were classified as either least, increased, or high risk based on waist circumference and Body Mass Index scores. Differences between these classifications were found in the amount of time spent in active energy expenditure for bouts of ten minutes or more (p = .002); specifically between least and high risk (p .05) emerged. Participants’ also perceived the SWA as a practical and worthwhile device. Overall, these findings provide practical applications and future directions for health promotional research

Assessing Physical Activity and Sedentary Time in the Early Years

The overall purpose of this dissertation was to explore young children’s (18 months to 5 years) physical activity and sedentary time. Study 1 assessed the physical activity and sedentary time among a sample of toddlers from London, Canada using two data processing approaches. Study 2 explored the impact of three different early learning environments, and their respective characteristics (e.g., staff behaviours, equipment, sedentary opportunities, etc.), on preschoolers’ activity levels. Study 3 examined differences in two popular accelerometers used to measure young children’s physical activity and sedentary time to better understand measurement discrepancies. Study 1 revealed that toddlers engaged in 37.27 (SD = 3.79) to 49.40 mins/hr of sedentary time, 9.79 to 18.78 mins/hr of light physical activity (LPA), 0.82 to 3.95 mins/hr of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), and 10.60 to 22.73 mins/hr of total physical activity (TPA), based on the Trost et al. and the Canadian Health Measures Survey cut-points respectively; these rates were significantly different. The results of Study 2 identified that preschoolers in Full-Day Kindergarten (FDK) accumulated significantly more MVPA (3.33 mins/hr) than those in centre- (1.58 mins/hr) and home-based (1.75 mins/hr) childcare, and significantly more TPA (20.31 mins/hr) than those in centre-based childcare (18.36 mins/hr). For FDK, the Active Opportunities, Sedentary Opportunities, Sedentary Environment, and Fixed Play Environment subscales of the Environment Policy Assessment and Observation (EPAO) tool significantly impacted both MVPA and TPA. For centre-based childcare, only Sedentary Environment was found to impact MVPA and TPA. No subscales were influential of children’s MVPA or TPA in home-based childcare. The results of Study 3 suggest that, regardless of epoch length, Actical accelerometers, compared with ActiGraph accelerometers, reported significantly higher rates of sedentary time (15s: 42.7 mins/hr vs. 33.5 mins/hr; 60s: 39.4 mins/hr vs. 27.1 mins/hr). ActiGraph accelerometers captured significantly higher rates of MVPA (15s: 9.2 mins/hr vs. 2.6 mins/hr; 60s: 8.0 mins/hr vs. 1.27 mins/hr) and TPA (15s: 31.7 mins/hr vs. 22.3 mins/hr; 60s: 39.4 mins/hr vs. 25.2 mins/hr) in comparison to Actical accelerometers. In sum, these articles serve as foundational studies for future work in paediatric exercise science and health promotion as well as in the betterment of young Canadians’ health

Albuquerque Morning Journal, 09-17-1911

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