Recommending Physical Activity for People with Intellectual Disabilities: The Relevance of Public Health Guidelines, Physical Activity Behaviour and Type of Contact
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Setting
2.2. Procedure
2.3. Recruiting
2.4. Online Survey
2.5. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Subjects
3.2. Recommendation of PA
3.2.1. Endurance-Related and Muscle-Strengthening Recommendations
3.2.2. Explanation for Recommending PA and Information Source
3.3. Knowledge of PA Guidelines
3.4. Own PA Behaviour
3.5. Context-Specific Contact with People with an ID
4. Discussion
4.1. PA Recommendations for People with an ID in General
4.2. Knowledge of PA Guidelines
4.3. Participants’ Own PA Behaviour
4.4. Context-Specific Contact with People with an ID
5. Limitations
6. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Intensity of PA | Range | Mean | SD | Median |
---|---|---|---|---|
LPArec | 0–960 | 208.36 | 176.66 | 150 |
MPArec | 0–600 | 110.42 | 88.04 | 90 |
VPArec | 0–630 | 54.60 | 62.81 | 30 |
MVPArec | 0–1050 | 165.01 | 137.14 | 120 |
Guidelines | Do Not Know (n; %) | Know Parts of the Content (n; %) | Know the Content Approximately (n; %) | Know the Most Important Parts of the Content (n; %) | Know All the Content (n; %) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
WHO, 2020 (n = 585) | 333; 56.9% | 88; 15.0% | 81; 13.8% | 72; 12.3% | 11; 1.9% |
UN-CRPD, 2006 (n = 585) | 291; 49.7% | 85; 14.5% | 85; 14.5% | 95; 16.2% | 29; 5.0% |
Austrian, 2020 (na = 164) | 97; 59.1% | 27; 16.5% | 20; 12.2% | 15; 9.1% | 5; 3.0% |
German, 2016 (na = 103) | 73; 70.9% | 12; 11.7% | 8; 7.8% | 9; 8.7% | 1; 1.0% |
Swiss, 2017 (na = 318) | 196; 61.6% | 43; 13.5% | 41; 12.9% | 34; 10.7% | 4; 1.3% |
Intensity of PA | Range | Mean | SD | Median |
---|---|---|---|---|
MPAown | 0–1260 | 224.15 | 271.15 | 120 |
VPAown | 0–1260 | 144.99 | 171.53 | 90 |
MVPAown | 0–2520 | 369.14 | 359.19 | 260 |
Walkingown | 0–6300 | 501.18 | 766.39 | 210 |
Sittingown | 0–999 | 316.46 | 188.21 | 300 |
Context of Contact | Never (n, %) | Rarely (n, %) | Sometimes (n, %) | Frequently (n, %) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Work | 170 (29.1%) | 54 (9.2%) | 55 (9.4%) | 306 (52.3%) |
Sport club | 410 (70.1%) | 52 (8.9%) | 77 (13.2%) | 46 (7.9%) |
Family | 426 (72.8%) | 74 (12.6%) | 31 (5.3%) | 54 (9.2%) |
Neighbourhood | 425 (72.8%) | 102 (17.4%) | 46 (7.9%) | 12 (2.1%) |
Friends | 439 (75.0%) | 90 (15.4%) | 35 (6.0%) | 21 (3.6%) |
Leisure time | 444 (75.9%) | 103 (17.6%) | 30 (5.1%) | 8 (1.4%) |
Non-sport club | 487 (83.2%) | 58 (9.9%) | 23 (3.9%) | 17 (2.9%) |
Education | 514 (87.9%) | 32 (5.5%) | 17 (2.9%) | 22 (3.8%) |
Other | 512 (87.5%) | 44 (7.5%) | 15 (2.6%) | 14 (2.4%) |
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Kreinbucher-Bekerle, C.; Ruf, W.; Bartholomeyczik, A.; Wieber, F.; Kiselev, N. Recommending Physical Activity for People with Intellectual Disabilities: The Relevance of Public Health Guidelines, Physical Activity Behaviour and Type of Contact. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20, 5544. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20085544
Kreinbucher-Bekerle C, Ruf W, Bartholomeyczik A, Wieber F, Kiselev N. Recommending Physical Activity for People with Intellectual Disabilities: The Relevance of Public Health Guidelines, Physical Activity Behaviour and Type of Contact. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2023; 20(8):5544. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20085544
Chicago/Turabian StyleKreinbucher-Bekerle, Christoph, Wolfgang Ruf, Astrid Bartholomeyczik, Frank Wieber, and Nikolai Kiselev. 2023. "Recommending Physical Activity for People with Intellectual Disabilities: The Relevance of Public Health Guidelines, Physical Activity Behaviour and Type of Contact" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 8: 5544. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20085544