How can and do Australian doctors promote physical activity?

FCL Bull, ECC Schipper, K Jamrozik, BA Blanksby - Preventive medicine, 1997 - Elsevier
… in Perth, the capital city of Western Australia (WA), to assess … tion of physical activity, details
and type of activity recommended, … in physical activity and their own participation in physical

Impact of covid-19 restrictions on western Australian children's physical activity and screen time

A Nathan, P George, M Ng, E Wenden, P Bai… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
… to be physically active. This study describes changes in levels of physical activity and screen
… , before COVID-19 restrictions were introduced in Western Australia) to May 2020 (ie, when …

Association between physical activity and quality of life among Western Australian breast cancer survivors

HM Milne, S Gordon, A Guilfoyle… - … Oncology: Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… Previous research has shown that physical activity (PA) may … Breast cancer survivors (N =
558) from the Western Australia … We conclude that physically active and healthy weight breast …

Indigenous Australians perceptions' of physical activity: a qualitative systematic review

EE Dahlberg, SJ Hamilton, F Hamid… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
… and understanding of what physical activity means to Indigenous Australians will also shed
… that Indigenous Australians have about physical activity and what physical activity means to …

The baby boomers and beyond report: physical activity levels of older Western Australians 2006

D Saarloos, A Nathan, O Almeida, B Giles-Corti - 2008 - eprints.qut.edu.au
… This chapter reports the levels and patterns of physical activity participation in Western
Australian baby boomers+. Data are reported for various demographic variables including age, …

Barriers to physical activity in individuals with spinal cord injury: A western Australian study

T Roberton, RS Bucks, TC Skinner… - The Australian Journal …, 2011 - cambridge.org
… Despite the high prevalence of SCI in Australia, relatively little is known about factors that …
explores the barriers to physical activity reported by a Western Australian sample of individuals …

Life in a time of COVID: retrospective examination of the association between physical activity and mental well-being in western Australians during and after lockdown

B Piggott, P Chivers, KK Sarasjärvi, R Bhoyroo… - BMC public health, 2023 - Springer
… The aim of this study was to examine physical activity and sedentary behaviours during
Western Australia’s COVID-19 lockdown and their association with mental well-being. …

Barriers and enablers to physical activity among older Australians who want to increase their physical activity levels

R Macniven, V Pye, D Merom… - … of physical activity …, 2014 - journals.humankinetics.com
… Background: Physical activity interventions targeting older adults are optimized if barriers …
physical activity and examined whether these were associated with meeting physi- cal activity

The physical activity patterns of older Australians

S Brownie - Australian Journal of Primary Health, 2005 - CSIRO Publishing
… The aim of this article is to report the physical activity patterns in a representative sample
of older Australians, with a particular focus on their participation in therapeutic activities, such …

How are different levels of knowledge about physical activity associated with physical activity behaviour in Australian adults?

SV Fredriksson, SJ Alley, AL Rebar, M Hayman… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
physical activity knowledge in Australians [13]. This study examined individual (miss)perceptions
in relation to physical activity behaviour and health in 2535 Australianphysical activity