Research Impact: There is a notable increase in interest in the health outcomes associated with reallocations of time between sleep, sedentary behaviour, and physical activity. While much media coverage has focused on the adverse effects of […]
Tag: Physical Activity
Publication: Physical Activity and Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Results from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
Research Impact: Generalised anxiety disorder is prevalent and costly, and common frontline treatments, such as antidepressants and cognitive behavioural therapy, have been shown to have negative side-effects and to be only moderately efficacious. Given the prevalence […]
Publication: Associations of Self-Reported Physical Activity and Depression in 10,000 Irish Adults across Harmonised Datasets: a DEDIPAC-study
Research Impact: Depression is a prevalent, debilitating, and often recurrent mood disorder for which successful first-line treatments remains limited. Evidence has demonstrated the protective benefits of physical activity for depression; however, little evidence exists regarding associations […]
Workshop “Exercise is Medicine: Connecting Fitness with Healthcare”
“Exercise is Medicine: Connecting Fitness with Healthcare” Workshop When: July 2nd, 2018 Where: Clinical Education and Research Centre (CERC) University Hospital Limerick Time: 6.30pm (Registration and light refreshments) 7.00-8.30pm Free Registration at Eventbrite MedEx UL and […]
Publication: Interventions to improve physical activity among socioeconomically disadvantaged groups: an umbrella review
Research Impact: People from socioeconomically disadvantaged population groups are less likely to be physically active and more likely to experience adverse health outcomes than those who are less disadvantaged. In this umbrella review, we examined across […]
Publication: Sleep quality moderates the association between physical activity & feelings of fatigue in adolescents
Research Impact: Physical activity (PA) can improve sleep quality and fatigue, but the potential moderating effect of sleep quality on associations between PA and feelings of fatigue among adolescents is unknown. This study showed that sleep […]
Publication: Acute effects of outdoor & indoor exercise on feelings of energy & fatigue in people with depressive symptoms
Research Impact: Mild-to-moderate depression is often accompanied by low energy and fatigue. Acute exercise improves energy and fatigue, but less is known regarding environmental influences on exercise response. Feelings of energy and fatigue were measured before […]
Publication: The development and codesign of the PATHway intervention- eHealth platform for management of CV disease
Abstract: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a leading cause of premature death worldwide. International guidelines recommend routine delivery of all phases of cardiac rehabilitation (CR). Uptake of traditional CR remains suboptimal, as attendance at formal hospital-based CR […]
UL lead collaboration on ‘Children’s Sport Participation & Physical Activity’- Dr Cormac Powell
In Ireland, limited physical activity data exist that have been collected from representative samples of children and even fewer data collected where physical activity has been measured with precision1-5. The original Children’s Sport Participation and […]
Publication: A systematic literature review of reviews on techniques for physical activity measurement in adults: a DEDIPAC study
Research Impact: How do we know that physical activity is good for us? Most of our knowledge about this comes from studies which measure physical activity during daily life. Until recently, most of those […]
