Low Contact Intervention

In order to truly have a healthy lifestyle, physical activity is a huge factor that can go a long way in benefitting an individual’s lifestyle. In a low-contact intervention done by Aoife Lane, Niamh Murphy, Adrian Bauman, and Tien Chey on inactive Irish women who recently participated in a mass 10km run, they share their results and assessment on the effectiveness of this type of intervention. In this paper, I will summarize the overall basis and findings of the intervention conducted by the researches, along with sharing my reaction on the topic. The researchers’ purpose of conducting this study was to evaluate what kind of impact a low-contact intervention would have on the physical activity of women who are not sufficiently active, in this case - inactive Irish women. They went about selecting these women through a survey that was distributed online or through the post. The survey graded women on their activeness by a standard where doing at least 150 minutes of physical activity over 5 sessions was considered a good state of sufficient activity. Those who did not meet the standards but still did little activity were classified as insufficiently active, and those who did not do any activity at all were classified as sedentary. They based the activity levels on all sorts of actions such as walking or gardening. After narrowing it down from over 6700 women who completed the survey, they chose 414 women …show more content…
The intervention did a good job to produce results within the group they were provided, but there were several factors that could have altered the results in the findings. A more reliable way of gathering data from the participants, involving tracking tools was one of my proposed tactics to achieve a better read on the