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Effectiveness of Start to Run, a 6-week training program for novice runners, on increasing health-enhancing physical activity: a controlled study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, July 2013
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Title
Effectiveness of Start to Run, a 6-week training program for novice runners, on increasing health-enhancing physical activity: a controlled study
Published in
BMC Public Health, July 2013
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-13-697
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Authors

Linda Ooms, Cindy Veenhof, Dinny H de Bakker

Abstract

The use of the organized sports sector as a setting for health-promotion is a relatively new strategy. In the past few years, different countries have been investing resources in the organized sports sector for promoting health-enhancing physical activity. In the Netherlands, National Sports Federations were funded to develop and implement "easily accessible" sporting programs, aimed at the least active population groups. Start to Run, a 6-week training program for novice runners, developed by the Dutch Athletics Organization, is one of these programs. In this study, the effects of Start to Run on health-enhancing physical activity were investigated.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 3 3%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 102 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 20 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 13%
Student > Bachelor 14 13%
Researcher 9 8%
Student > Postgraduate 6 6%
Other 19 18%
Unknown 24 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 32 30%
Medicine and Dentistry 16 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 13%
Psychology 8 8%
Engineering 4 4%
Other 8 8%
Unknown 24 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. 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 12 August 2013.
All research outputs
#1,899,069
of 25,286,324 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#2,173
of 16,925 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#15,795
of 205,148 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#30
of 235 outputs
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