Target population's requirements on a community-based intervention for stimulating physical activity in hard-to-reach physically disabled people: an interview study.
CONCLUSIONS: An intervention to stimulate physical activity in hard-to-reach physically disabled people should be individualized, include personal support, and should include marketing to improve image of physical activity of physically disabled people. The intervention that fulfills these requirements should be developed and tested for effects in future research. Implications for rehabilitation An intervention to stimulate physical activity in physically disabled people should aim to raise awareness for the health effects of physical activity, stimulate intrinsic motivation, offer diverse activities, increase the visibility of the possible activities, and improve the image of physical activity for physically disabled people. An intervention should include both individual- and environmental-level intervention methods. Physically disabled people most emphasized individual-level characteristics of an intervention. For intervention development, professionals should take into account that physically disabled people believe that being physically active is a person's own responsibility.
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Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Krops LA, Folkertsma N, Hols DHJ, Geertzen JHB, Dijkstra PU, Dekker R Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research