# Presentation: 351262

## Improving the Science of Measuring Physical Activity Outcomes in Behavioral Interventions:The Behavior Change Consortium Experience

-  Terry Bazzarre, PhD, FACSM
-  Claudio Nigg, PhD
-  Leslie Pruitt, PhD
-  Charles Matthews, PhD

## Innovative Approaches to Behavior Change

*Outline*
**  ****Introduction****	****	****	****Terry Bazzarre, PhD**
**  ****Assessment Issues for Population-Based Intervention Trials****	****	****Claudio Nigg, PhD**
**  ****Self vs Interviewer Administered Physical Activity Measures****	****	****Leslie Pruitt, PhD**
**  ****Triangulation of Physical Activity Measures**
**	****	****	****	****	****	****Chuck Matthews, PhD**

## Innovative Approaches to Behavior Change

*Sponsors*
- Office of Disease Prevention		National Institute on Aging
- Office of Research Women’s Health		National Cancer Institute
- National Heart, Lung & Blood Inst		National Institute on Mental Health
- Office of Dietary Supplements		National Institute  Alcohol Abuse
- National Institute Child Health		National Institute Nursing Research
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- National Institute for Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- American Heart Association
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

## Innovative Approaches to Behavior Change

***Goal:***
- To stimulate investigations of innovative strategies designed to achieve long-term healthy behavior change.

## Innovative Approaches to Behavior Change

***Behaviors of Interest:***
-   Physical Inactivity
-   Nutrition
-   Smoking
-   Alcohol

## Innovative Approaches to Behavior Change

***Strategy***
-   Compare alternative theories related to mechanisms involved in behavior change
-   Assess utility of a theoretical model for changing two or more health behaviors

## Innovative Approaches to Behavior Change

***Studies with focus on physical activity:***
- Improving health behaviors and outcomes after angioplasty
- 	Mary E. Charleson, MD, Cornell University Medical College
- The SENIOR Project
- 	Philip G. Clark, ScD,  University of Rhode Island
- Youth Environments Promoting Physical Activity
- 	David A. Dzewaltowski, PhD, Kansas State University
- Promoting Healthy Lifestyles: Alternative Models’ Effect
- 	Diane Elliot, MD, Oregon Health Sciences University
- Randomized Trial to Reduce Sedentary Behavior in a High-Risk Minority Population -  Robert Garrison, PhD, University Tennessee

## Innovative Approaches to Behavior Change

***Studies with focus on physical activity:***
-  Exercise Advice by Human or Computer: Testing Two Theories -  Abby King, PhD,  Stanford University
-  Reducing Disease Risk in Low-income, Post-Partum Women - 	Karen Peterson, DSc,  Harvard School of Public Health
- Testing the Exercise Plus Program Following Hip Fractures - Barbara Resnick, PhD,  University of Maryland

## Innovative Approaches to Behavior Change

***Studies with focus on physical activity:***
-  Health Promotion through Black Churches
- 	Ken Resnicow, PhD,  Emory University
-  A Couples Intervention for Cardiac Risk Reduction
- 	Tamara Sher, PhD,  Illinois Institute of Technology
- Tailored Interventions for Multiple Risk Behaviors
- 	Victor Strecher, PhD,  University of Michigan
- Enhancing Support for Women at Risk for Heart Disease -  Deborah Toobert, PhD, Oregon Research Institute

## Innovative Approaches to Behavior Change

***Working Groups:***
-   Physical Activity
-   Nutrition
-   Smoking
-   Conceptual Mediators
-   Recruitment and Retention
-   Reach and Translation
-   Treatment Fidelity and Adherence
-   Methodology and Data Analysis
-   Motivational Interviewing
-   Translational Outcomes

## Innovative Approaches to Behavior Change

***Physical Activity Working Group Mission:***
-   Develop verification studies/strategies for measures of physical activity in each study  -
- 	 e.g. use of activity monitors to validate self-reporting
-   Develop common set of measures/questions that can be included in each study to allow for comparisons across studies