Making the Move to Exercise for Overweight and Obese People
Drs. Joyce Fitzpatrick and Mary Quinn Griffin collaborate on study
Posted 4/29/2011
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Joyce J. Fitzpatrick and Mary Quinn Griffin |
How much exercise are overweight and obese people getting? More than many might think, according to research findings by nurses from Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing.
Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, FPB's Elizabeth Ford Professor of Nursing, and Assistant Professor Mary Quinn Griffin collaborated with Deborah Walton Smith of Gonzaga University on the exercise study, whose findings are reported in the Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners article, "Exercise and exercise intentions among obese and overweight individuals."
The investigators interviewed 175 overweight and obese people at nurse practitioner-run clinics in Spokane, Washington to determine their activities and intentions regarding exercise. Of these subjects, who were 40 years old or older and had a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 25 or above, 25 percent were considering beginning exercise within the next month, 23% had exercised regularly for more than six months, and 39% indicated that they exercised regularly. Only 12 percent had no interest in exercise at all.
These findings are important to combat obesity health issues. Subjects with lower BMI scores in the obese range tended to exercise more, Quinn Griffin explained, and the more they exercised, the more benefits they saw in being active.
Source: Newswise
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