Baker, G., Gray, S, Wright, Annemarie, Fitzsimons, Claire, Nimmo, Myra A., Lowry, R., ...
Recent systematic reviews have suggested that pedometers may be effective motivational tools to promote walking. However, studies tend to be of a relatively short duration, with small clinical based...
Baker, G., Mutrie, N., Lowry, R.
Background Pedometers are popular devices that measure walking steps. There has been a recent surge in promoting the pedometer as a motivational tool to increase walking. However, little empirical...
Psychology of physical activity: determinants, well-being, and interventions (2008)
Psychology of Physical Activity is a comprehensive account of our psychological knowledge about physical activity covering: motivation and the psychological factors associated with activity or...
The Encyclopedia of Counseling provides a comprehensive overview of the theories, models, techniques, and challenges involved in professional counseling. With approximately 600 entries, this...
Fitzsimons, C.F., Baker, G., Wrigh, A., Nimmo, M.A., Ward Thompson, C., Lowry, R., ...
Background: Scotland has a policy aimed at increasing physical activity levels in the population, but evidence on how to achieve this is still developing. Studies that focus on encouraging real world...
Development of the Scottish walkability assessment tool (SWAT) (2008)
Millington, C, Ward Thompson, C, Rowe, D, Aspinall, P, Fitzsimons, Claire, Nelson, Norah M., ...
The Scottish Walkability Assessment Tool (SWAT) was designed to objectively record aspects of the physical environment believed to be related to walking in urban Scotland. Reliability was assessed by...
Ogilvie, D., Mitchell, R., Mutrie, N., Petticrew, M., Platt, S
Environmental characteristics may be associated with patterns of physical activity in general or with particular types of physical activity such as active travel (walking or cycling for transport)....
Ogilvie, D., Mitchell, R., Mutrie, N., Petticrew, M., Platt, S
Environmental characteristics may be associated with patterns of physical activity. However, the development of instruments to measure perceived characteristics of the local environment is still at a...
Applied exercise psychology - promoting activity and evaluating outcomes (2007)
Exercise psychology is a rapidly expanding area within the sports and exercise science and health fields. This paper examines applied exercise psychology detailing techniques to promote activity and...
Physical activity is associated with good physical and mental health. Current recommendations suggest that people should achieve 30 minutes of moderate-intensity activity most days of the week to...
Examines how patients can be motivated to exercise and provides a guide to exercise psychology for selected patient groups.
Lowther, M., Mutrie, N., Scott, E.M.
This longitudinal study identified processes of exercise behaviour change (POC) associated with movement between the stages of exercise behaviour change (SOC). Participants’ (N = 312) physical...
Interventions to promote walking: systematic review (2007)
Ogilvie, D., Foster, Charlie, Rothnie, Helen, Cavill, Nick, Hamilton, Val, Fitzsimons, Claire, ...
Assesses the effects of interventions to promote walking in individuals and populations. Uses published and unpublished reports in any language identified by searching 25 electronic databases, by...
Maintaining physical activity in cardiac rehabilitation (2006)
Hughes, A.R., Mutrie, N., Thow, M.
This chapter describes an intervention that has been used to encourage individuals to remain regularly physically active in exercise-based CR in phases III and IV.The principles of this intervention...
Hughes, A.R., Mutrie, N., McLaughlin, R., McKay, J., Lafferty, K., Mackay, T.
The link between physical activity and health has been firmly established. There is clear evidence that regular activity has both preventative and therapeutic effects on many contemporary chronic...
Alternative research strategies in the exercise - mental health relationship (2005)
De Vliet, P., Mutrie, N., Onghena, P.
From the numerous investigations available, there is cautious support for the proposition that exercise is associated with enhanced emotion and mood in mental illness, but the strength of the...
Mutrie, N., Murtagh, E.M., Murphy, M.H., Boreham, C.A.G., Stanage, G., Nevill, A.
There is a clear need in most developed countries to increase the level of physical activity to achieve a recognized public health gain. It has been suggested that walking is 'the nearest activity to...
This paper presents conclusions from recent systematic reviews and highlights individually targeted interventions that are effective at increasing physical activity. It discusses the limitations of...
Daley, A.J., Mutrie, N., Crank, H., Coleman, R., Saxton, J.
Recovering from cancer treatment can be a difficult experience, both physically and psychologically. This paper describes a randomized controlled trial that evaluates the effects of exercise therapy...
The identification of current patterns of physical activity in any population is important in planning public health initiatives. The aim in this paper is to show the various physical activities that...
Do pedometers motivate people to walk more? (2004)
Mutrie, N., Wright, A.E., Wilson, R.E., Gunnyeon, K.A.
Physical activity confers many important health benefits. The 'active living message' recommends that adults should accumulate 30 ruin of moderate-intensity physical activity (e.g. brisk walking) on...
Getting the inactive active: implications for public health policy (2004)
Epidemiological data have established that a sedentary lifestyle increases the incidence of at least 17 medical conditions. The evidence is strongest for coronary heart disease. A sedentary lifestyle...
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is patterned by socio-economic status, being more common in lower social classes. Since physical inactivity is a risk factor for CVD it might be assumed that it is more...
Physical activity: positive psychology in motion (2004)
Positive psychology looks at areas like well-being and fulfillment. While the larger question of optimal human functioning is hardly new, positive psychology offers a common language on this subject...
The relationship among different modes of physical activity and non-clinical depression (2003)
Mutrie, N., Hannah, M.K., Berger, U.
Recent evidence shows that any form of physical activity, not just aerobic activity to improve cardiovascular fitness, can have significant health benefits. However, physical inactivity is...
How can we get people to be more active? A problem waiting to be solved (2003)
Reports on the results of both population and individual-level interventions to promote higher levels of physical activity. Examines theories of exercise behaviour, a theory of planned behaviour and...
The role of exercise in diabetes management (2003)
Kirk, A.F., Mutrie, N., MacIntyre, P., Fisher, B.M.
Physical activity has many benefits for all adults with type 2 diabetes. This article looks at how exercise recommendations can be applied to care home residents with the disease.
Hughes, Adrienne R., Mutrie, N.
This randomized-controlled trial demonstrates that an exercise consultation, based on the transtheoretic model of exercise behavior change, significantly improves short-term adherence to exercise.
Prevalence and social patterning of walking and cycling activity in the West of Scotland (2002)
Walking and cycling are frequently promoted as modes of physical activity that are accessible to the whole population and yet little is known about the population prevalence of these activities. A...
Woods, C.B., Mutrie, N., Scott, P., Simpson, C.
Sixty percent of the Scottish population is not active enough to derive health benefits and approximately 51% are classified as overweight or obese (The Scottish Office Department of Health, 1999:...
Healthy body, healthy mind? (2002)
The field of psychosomatic medicine has clearly established the idea that how we think and feel will affect the functioning of the body. What we do with our bodies may also affect how we think and...
Celia Brackenridge is internationally acclaimed for her work in uncovering the story of sexual exploitation in sport and offering explanations about why it occurs. She is uniquely qualified by her...
Promoting physical activity in people with type 2 diabetes (2002)
Kirk, A.F., Mutrie, N., MacIntyre, P., Fisher, B.M.
Extensive evidence demonstrates the benefits of physical activity in the management of type 2 diabetes. A recent meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials investigating the effect of exercise on...
Lowther, M., Mutrie, N., Scott, E.M.
The main aim of this study was to assess the effects of a fitness assessment and exercise consultation on physical activity over 1 year in non-regularly active participants drawn from a socially and...
Bayesian modelling of physical activity in Scotland (2002)
Paper detailing the Bayesian modelling of physical activity and exercise in Scotland.
Employee attitudes towards active commuting (2001)
Crawford, F., Mutrie, N., Hanlon, P.
Reliance on motorised transport has contributed to increasingly sedentary lifestyles and serious traffic congestion. This paper reports on a postal survey conducted in Glasgow which aimed to...
The present study examines the effects of goal specificity and goal difficulty on performance in a sports setting for children while attempting to control for the effects of social comparison....
Mutrie, N., Woods, C., Lowther, M., Blamey, A., Loughlan, C.
Article responding to Newcastle exercise project by Harland et al. The authors believe that Harland et al have asked the wrong questions and therefore drawn the wrong conclusions. Harland et al...
The transition from University and its effect on physical activity patterns (2000)
Carney, C., Mutrie, N., McNeish, S.
Examines the transition from University and its effect on physical activity patterns. Physical activity habits during the young adult years are likely to be important influences on habitual physical...
It's exercise or nothing: a qualitative analysis of exercise dependence - commentary (2000)
Aims to explore, using qualitative methods, the concept of exercise dependence. Semistructured interviews were undertaken with subjects screened for exercise dependence and eating disorders. Female...
Is 'fit' a feminist issue? Dilemmas for exercise psychology (2000)
Exercise psychologists are interested in how to promote adherence to physical activity in different segments of the population, and in the health outcomes, both physiological and psychological, from...
Hughes, Adrienne R., McLaughlin, Ruth, McKay, J., Lafferty, Kevin, McKay, Tony, Mutrie, N.
The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity in primary school children in Glasgow and to evaluate a pilot activity programme for overweight and obese children. BMI...