Benchmarking the effectiveness of interventions to promote physical activity: A metasynthesis.

Charles E WrightRyan E RhodesElijah W RuggieroPaschal Sheeran

Published in: Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association (2021)

Conventional interpretations of effect size gravely misrepresent the effectiveness of interventions to promote physical activity. The percentile values for effect sizes, steps per days, minutes of MVPA, and percentage meeting guidelines reported here can be used to benchmark the effectiveness of future trials and should enable more informed judgments about trade-offs between effectiveness and considerations such as reach, burden, and cost. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

Keyphrases

physical activity
randomized controlled trial
systematic review
body mass index
emergency department
clinical practice
risk factors
adverse drug