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Engineering online and in-person social networks to sustain physical activity: application of a conceptual model

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, August 2013
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Title
Engineering online and in-person social networks to sustain physical activity: application of a conceptual model
Published in
BMC Public Health, August 2013
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-13-753
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Authors

Liza S Rovniak, James F Sallis, Jennifer L Kraschnewski, Christopher N Sciamanna, Elizabeth J Kiser, Chester A Ray, Vernon M Chinchilli, Ding Ding, Stephen A Matthews, Melissa Bopp, Daniel R George, Melbourne F Hovell

Abstract

High rates of physical inactivity compromise the health status of populations globally. Social networks have been shown to influence physical activity (PA), but little is known about how best to engineer social networks to sustain PA. To improve procedures for building networks that shape PA as a normative behavior, there is a need for more specific hypotheses about how social variables influence PA. There is also a need to integrate concepts from network science with ecological concepts that often guide the design of in-person and electronically-mediated interventions. Therefore, this paper: (1) proposes a conceptual model that integrates principles from network science and ecology across in-person and electronically-mediated intervention modes; and (2) illustrates the application of this model to the design and evaluation of a social network intervention for PA.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Peru 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 223 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 43 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 41 18%
Researcher 24 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 19 8%
Student > Bachelor 16 7%
Other 42 18%
Unknown 44 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 40 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 36 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 24 10%
Psychology 21 9%
Sports and Recreations 15 7%
Other 37 16%
Unknown 56 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 04 September 2015.
All research outputs
#6,708,962
of 22,716,996 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#6,983
of 14,793 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#57,441
of 196,389 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#127
of 257 outputs
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