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'I Can Actually Exercise If I Want To; It Isn't As Hard As I Thought'
- Source :
- Journal of Health Psychology. 13:810-819
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2008.
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Abstract
- A qualitative study nested within a randomized controlled trial explored obese adolescents' experiences of participation in an exercise therapy intervention. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants assigned to exercise therapy. Participants' reported feeling more energetic during and after exercise, than before. Many participants reported feeling happy/happier and expressed feeling better about themselves as individuals after the intervention. Most participants felt more confident in their ability to exercise regularly. Greater emphasis needs to be placed upon educating obese adolescents about the wide range of health benefits that exercise can provide, and that weight loss, while important, is only one such benefit.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
media_common.quotation_subject
Culture
Health Behavior
Health benefits
law.invention
Randomized controlled trial
Weight loss
law
Intervention (counseling)
medicine
Humans
Obesity
Applied Psychology
media_common
business.industry
Exercise therapy
Exercise Therapy
Affect
Feeling
Physical therapy
Female
medicine.symptom
business
Attitude to Health
Clinical psychology
Qualitative research
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14617277 and 13591053
- Volume :
- 13
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Health Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....60cdefbe4b00070c3f984eb2c47463d1