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Reaching older people with PA delivered in football clubs: the reach, adoption and implementation characteristics of the Extra Time Programme

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, March 2015
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Title
Reaching older people with PA delivered in football clubs: the reach, adoption and implementation characteristics of the Extra Time Programme
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BMC Public Health, March 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12889-015-1560-5
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Daniel Parnell, Andy Pringle, Jim McKenna, Stephen Zwolinsky, Zoe Rutherford, Jackie Hargreaves, Lizzie Trotter, Michael Rigby, David Richardson

Abstract

Older adults (OA) represent a core priority group for physical activity and Public Health policy. As a result, significant interest is placed on how to optimise adherence to interventions promoting these approaches. Extra Time (ET) is an example of a national programme of physical activity interventions delivered in professional football clubs for OA aged 55+ years. This paper aims to examine the outcomes from ET, and unpick the processes by which these outcomes were achieved. This paper represents a secondary analysis of data collected during the evaluation of ET. From the 985 OA reached by ET, n=486 adopted the programme and completed post-intervention surveys (typically 12 weeks). We also draw on interview data with 18 ET participants, and 7 staff who delivered the programme. Data were subject to thematic analysis to generate overarching and sub themes. Of the 486 participants, the majority 95%, (n= 462) were White British and 59.7% (n=290) were female. Most adopters (65.4%/n=318) had not participated in previous interventions in the host clubs. Social interaction was the most frequently reported benefit of participation (77.2%, n=375). While the reach of the club badge was important in letting people know about the programme, further work enhanced adoption and satisfaction. These factors included (i) listening to participants, (ii) delivering a flexible age-appropriate programme of diverse physical and social activities, (iii) offering activities which satisfy energy drives and needs for learning and (iv) extensive opportunities for social engagement. Findings emerging from this study indicate that physical activity and health interventions delivered through professional football clubs can be effective for engaging OA.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Indonesia 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 106 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 16 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 12%
Researcher 8 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 7%
Student > Bachelor 7 6%
Other 24 22%
Unknown 32 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 17 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 14 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 13 12%
Social Sciences 13 12%
Psychology 8 7%
Other 10 9%
Unknown 33 31%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 26. 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 01 October 2019.
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#1,505,549
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#1,727
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#18,610
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#31
of 302 outputs
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