Pedometer Use as a Motivational Tool for Increased Physical Activity in Bariatric Surgery Patients
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Obesity is a significant health care crisis in the United States.It is associated with various physical and mental health problems, decreased quality of life, and significant medical costs.Bariatric surgery has become a popular intervention for weight management but successful, long-term outcomes are largely dependent on patients' behavioral and lifestyle changes, perhaps most notably, their motivation to engage in consistent physical activity.However, compliance with physical activity recommendations is consistently demonstrated as problematic for this population.A better understanding of the psychological and theoretical variables that hinder bariatric patients' motivation for physical activity is necessary in order to better construct interventions to assist this population in behavior change.Unfortunately, theoretically guided interventions focused on influential psychological variables are often absent treatment components within bariatric surgery programs.The current study applied Social-Cognitive Theory as a framework to conceptualize the problem of motivation for consistent physical activity specific to the post-operative bariatric surgery population.This study looked specifically at the impact of social-cognitive constructs of self-efficacy, goal setting, and objective performance feedback (via the use of pedometers) on motivation for engaging in physical activity.This study was unique not only in the theoretical constructs examined with post-operative bariatric patients, but also in that it used objective feedback devices (pedometers) to 4 Change in Step Counts Across Groups for Weeks 1 Through 4. . . . . . . . . . .79
Author: Nicole Hunka
Institution: University of Akron
Language: English
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2267246104