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Promoting and maintaining physical activity in the transition to retirement: a systematic review of interventions for adults around retirement age

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, February 2016
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Title
Promoting and maintaining physical activity in the transition to retirement: a systematic review of interventions for adults around retirement age
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International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, February 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12966-016-0336-3
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S. Baxter, M. Johnson, N. Payne, H. Buckley-Woods, L. Blank, E. Hock, A. Daley, A. Taylor, T. Pavey, G. Mountain, E. Goyder

Abstract

It has been argued that transition points in life, such as the approach towards, and early years of retirement present key opportunities for interventions to improve the health of the population. Research has also highlighted inequalities in health status in the retired population and in response to interventions which should be addressed. We aimed to conduct a systematic review to synthesise international evidence on the types and effectiveness of interventions to increase physical activity among people around the time of retirement. A systematic review of literature was carried out between February 2014 and April 2015. Searches were not limited by language or location, but were restricted by date to studies published from 1990 onwards. Methods for identification of relevant studies included electronic database searching, reference list checking, and citation searching. Systematic search of the literature identified 104 papers which described study populations as being older adults. However, we found only one paper which specifically referred to their participants as being around the time of retirement. The intervention approaches for older adults encompassed: training of health care professionals; counselling and advice giving; group sessions; individual training sessions; in-home exercise programmes; in-home computer-delivered programmes; in-home telephone support; in-home diet and exercise programmes; and community-wide initiatives. The majority of papers reported some intervention effect, with evidence of positive outcomes for all types of programmes. A wide range of different measures were used to evaluate effectiveness, many were self-reported and few studies included evaluation of sedentary time. While the retirement transition is considered a significant point of life change, little research has been conducted to assess whether physical activity interventions at this time may be effective in promoting or maintaining activity, or reducing health inequalities. We were unable to find any evidence that the transition to retirement period was, or was not a significant point for intervention. Studies in older adults more generally indicated that a range of interventions might be effective for people around retirement age.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
New Zealand 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Unknown 208 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 32 15%
Researcher 32 15%
Student > Master 31 15%
Student > Bachelor 21 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 6%
Other 24 11%
Unknown 57 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 36 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 30 14%
Psychology 16 8%
Social Sciences 14 7%
Sports and Recreations 12 6%
Other 28 13%
Unknown 74 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 91. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 August 2019.
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#438,323
of 24,272,486 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
#126
of 2,032 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,391
of 405,919 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
#8
of 56 outputs
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