Cristin-prosjekt-ID: 527551
Sist endret: 5. januar 2018, 17:55

Cristin-prosjekt-ID: 527551
Sist endret: 5. januar 2018, 17:55
Prosjekt

The public health potential and challenges of green exercise in Norway - A project based on FRIFO's physical activity survey 2012

prosjektleder

Giovanna Calogiuri
ved Institutt for folkehelse- og idrettsvitenskap ved Høgskolen i Innlandet

prosjekteier / koordinerende forskningsansvarlig enhet

  • Høgskolen i Innlandet

Klassifisering

Vitenskapsdisipliner

Helsefag

Emneord

Sosiale ulikheter og helse • Green exercise • Friluftsliv

HRCS-helsekategori

  • Generell helserelevans

HRCS-forskningsaktivitet

  • 1.2 Psykologiske og sosioøkonomiske prosesser

Kategorier

Prosjektkategori

  • Grunnforskning

Tidsramme

Avsluttet
Start: 1. mars 2014 Slutt: 28. februar 2017

Beskrivelse Beskrivelse

Tittel

The public health potential and challenges of green exercise in Norway - A project based on FRIFO's physical activity survey 2012

Vitenskapelig sammendrag

Activities such as walking, jogging or exercising can enable people to spend time in natural environments (e.g., forests, coasts, urban green spaces, etc.), providing even greater health benefits than those related to physical activity alone. Any physical activity taking place in natural environments has been defined as green exercise, and in the last decade studies have demonstrated the additional health benefits associated with this form of physical activity. For example, evidence shows that, compared with physical activity taking place indoors or in other built environments, green exercise can elicit stress reduction and positive psychological states, and provide long-lasting benefits in terms of physical and mental health. Furthermore, it has been argued that the positive psychophysiological effects of green exercise could lead to greater physical activity adherence. Despite the growing body of evidence regarding the health effects of green exercise, to date, little is known about the extent to which green exercise is a common form of physical activity in the general population, and whether it is a form of physical activity accessible to all. Moreover, little is known about the motivational processes that underly the participation in green exercise.

This project aims to address the following purposes:

(a) Provide a comprehensive overview of the “green exercise phenomenon” in Norway by examining to what extent weekly green exercise, in different forms, is a common source of weekly physical activity among adult Norwegians;

(b) Evaluate the significance of green exercise to health equity, examining the distribution of weekly green exercise and possible factors that promote GE across different social groups.

(c) Investigate the extent to which proximate natural environments is associated with high levels of physical activity, and what are the intra- and inter-individual factors account for this association;

(d) Examine the motivations that drive people to engage in green exercise, and compare them with the motivations for other forms of leisute-time physical activity, such as exercising in the gym and participating in organized sports.

Metode

In 2012, Norsk Friluftsliv initiated a national cross-sectional survey that aimed to explore physical activity habits and motivational factors among Norwegians, with attention given to GE and outdoor recreations. A web-based survey was carried out by a Norwegian marketing agency (Ipsos MMI), during October 2012. An invitation to participate was sent to 8620 individuals aged 18 or older randomly selected from a panel of approximately 50,000 individuals who regularly participate in their surveys. The sampling process was stratified by sex, age and geographical area in order to reduce possible selection bias and so that the final sample would be representative for the Norwegian population. The invitation was sent via e-mail, and one reminder was sent to those who did not respond to the first invitation. The final dataset contains data from 2168 respondent (response rate = 25%).

An objective measure of natural environments for 441 Norwegian municipalities was obtained through a web-based resource of the national statistics agency, Statistics Norway, the available data being collected between September 2012 and August 2013 from registries and geographical information systems.

prosjektdeltakere

prosjektleder

Giovanna Calogiuri

  • Tilknyttet:
    Prosjektleder
    ved Institutt for folkehelse- og idrettsvitenskap ved Høgskolen i Innlandet
Aktiv cristin-person

Geir Aamodt

  • Tilknyttet:
    Prosjektdeltaker
    ved Institutt for folkehelsevitenskap ved Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige universitet

Grete Grindal Patil

  • Tilknyttet:
    Prosjektdeltaker
    ved Institutt for folkehelsevitenskap ved Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige universitet
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Resultater Resultater

Why Do People Exercise in Natural Environments? International Perspectives [Keynote presentatio].

Calogiuri, Giovanna. 2017, MINDSCAPE Summit: Nature based solutions for Campus & Community Well-Being. HINNVitenskapelig foredrag

Why Do People Exercise in Natural Environments? Norwegian Adults’ Motives for Nature-, Gym-, and Sports-Based Exercise.

Calogiuri, Giovanna; Elliott, Lewis. 2017, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). HINN, UoEVitenskapelig artikkel

Is Green Exercise for All? A Descriptive Study of Green Exercise Habits and Promoting Factors in Adult Norwegians.

Calogiuri, Giovanna; Patil, Grete Grindal; Aamodt, Geir. 2016, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). HINN, NMBUVitenskapelig artikkel

Nærnatur og friluftsaktiviteter i barndommen kan fremme fysisk aktivitet gjennom økt naturopplevelse og sosialt nettverk.

Calogiuri, Giovanna. 2016, FAGDAG FORSKNINGSDAGENE 2016 – KORTE FOREDRAG FRA AVDELING FOR FOLKEHELSEFAG. HINNPopulærvitenskapelig foredrag
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