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Physical activity promotion and translational research

Author: Paul A. Estabrooks, PhD

Published in: Translational Behavioral Medicine | Issue 1/2017

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In 2013, I was invited to the University of Western Ontario to give the Albert Taylor Distinguished Alumnus Lecture. I called my doctoral mentor Dr. Bert Carron to bounce off ideas for the talk. We reminisced about some of the early studies I did as a student working with Dr. Kerry Courneya testing interventions in a university fitness facility [1‐3] and a study Bert and I did together with the Victoria Order of Nurses in Ontario. The later study was a very small pilot but resulted in a community physical activity program for older adults that was sustained for years after the study was completed [4]. We talked at length about how these and other studies helped to identify what factors could accelerate the use of physical activity promotion science in typical community and clinical practice. I landed on the idea of a talk on “Keys for Translating Physical Activity Interventions into Practice: Theory, integration, scalability, and existing measures,” and as I reviewed the papers included in this special section of Translational Behavioral Medicine, I was drawn back to the following propositions I presented during my talk in Western. …

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Druss, B. G. (2016). Improving access to exercise training programs for patients with serious mental illness. Transl Behav Med. doi:10.1007/s13142-016-0435-3.

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Harden, S. M., Johnson, S. E., Almeida, F. A., Estabrooks, P. A. (2016). Improving physical activity program adoption using integrated research-practice partnerships: an effectiveness-implementation trial. Transl Behav Med. doi:10.1007/s13142-015-0380-6.

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Murray, K. E., Ermias, A., Lung, A., et al. (2016). Culturally adapting a physical activity intervention for Somali women: the need for theory and innovation to promote equity. Transl Behav Med. doi:10.1007/s13142-016-0436-2.

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Estabrooks, P. A., Bradshaw, M., Dzewaltowski, D. A., & Smith-Ray, R. L. (2008). Determining the impact of Walk Kansas: applying a team-building approach to community physical activity promotion. Ann Behav Med, 36, 1–12.CrossRefPubMed

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Green, B. B., & Estabrooks, P. A. (2011). Assessing the scale-up of a weight loss program narrowing the gap between research and practice. Am J Prev Med, 41, 548–549.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

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Baillie C. P. T., Galaviz K. I., Emiry K., Bruner M. W., Lévesque L. (2016). Physical activity interventions to promote positive youth development among indigenous youth: a RE-AIM review. Transl Behav Med. doi:10.1007/s13142-016-0428-2.

Title: Physical activity promotion and translational research
Author: Paul A. Estabrooks, PhD
Publication date: 01-03-2017
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Translational Behavioral Medicine / Issue 1/2017
Print ISSN: 1869-6716
Electronic ISSN: 1613-9860
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13142-016-0456-y

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