Accepted Symposia
Could technology revolutionise physical activity guidelines and interventions?
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Physical activity for older people and people with disabilities: evidence and examples of scalable programs
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Physical activity behaviour and promotion from a systems perspective
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Impact of The Lancet Physical Activity Series and the future of physical activity research
Purpose: To explore the impact of the 2012, 2016, 2021 The Lancet Physical Activity Series and provide an overview of the main results of an upcoming series.
Description: Publishing in The Lancet journal is particularly significant due to its visibility, extensive reach and considerable influence on public health and medical practice worldwide. As such, The Lancet Physical Activity Series of 2012, 2016, and 2021 provided a platform for wide dissemination of research findings on high-priority topics in the physical activity field. The overarching aim of the series was to advance the understanding and promotion of physical activity worldwide. This Symposium will include four presentations starting with a historical perspective and impact of The Lancet Physical Activity Series coupled with an overview of the three past series. Presentations 2-4 will follow with an overview of the new, forthcoming papers intended to be included in a 4th Lancet Physical Activity series. These presentations will delve into critical new topics including (a) health equity and a paradigm shift positing physical activity as not solely relevant to Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) but adopting a syndemics approach, (b) examining the nexus between physical activity and climate change/environmental sustainability, and (c) the importance of scaling up effective physical activity policies globally. Presentation one (Professor Pedro Hallal) will summarize key findings and contributions of the three series over the last decade and how the past series are positioned as a significant effort for advancing the science of physical activity and related fields. Presentation two (Associate Professor Deborah Salvo) will introduce the first paper of the 4th series exploring how the current age of syndemics presents interacting global crises of infectious diseases, NCDs, mental health problems, persistent health inequities, and climate change; all of which can benefit from physical activity. Presentation three (Professor Erica Hinckson) will reinforce the dual goal of bringing together the physical activity and climate agendas to address human and planetary health by urgently taking a multisectoral collaborative approach that will focus on comprehensive and holistic actions through policy change. Finally, Presentation four (Assistant Professor Andrea Ramirez Varela) will provide a critical reflection on monitoring global physical activity policies to assess progress in national and global physical activity and NCD prevention policies to guide efforts, inform decision-making, and drive actions aimed at fostering healthier populations and mitigating the prevalence of physical inactivity for the future.
This symposium will share learnings from research teams across six world regions with an emphasis on discussion, reflection and vision to guide the future of physical activity in the next decades to come.
Chair: Professor Pedro Hallal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Presenter 1: Professor Pedro Hallal. Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA.
Presenter 2: Associate Professor Deborah Salvo. Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA.
Presenter 3: Professor Erica Hinckson, Department of Physical Activity and Nutrition, School of Sport and Recreation, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Presenter 4: Assistant Professor Andrea Ramirez Varela. Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), USA.
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-Professor Adrian Bauman, Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney.
-Professor Harold Kohl III, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, The University of Texas at Austin. Austin, USA.
-Professor Jim Sallis, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California USA.
-Associate Professor Melody Ding. Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney. Sydney, Australia.
-Professor Michael Pratt. Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego. San Diego, USA; Institute of Public Health, University of California San Diego. San Diego, USA.
-Professor Rodrigo Reis, Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis. St. Louis, USA.
-Professor Ulf Ekelund, Department of Sport Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. Oslo, Norway.
Abstract 1: History and impact of The Lancet physical activity series (2012, 2016, 2021)
Background: In 2012, The Lancet introduced its inaugural series on Physical Activity (PA) during the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, shedding light on the alarming statistic that physical inactivity contributes to over 5 million global deaths annually, a figure equivalent to smoking-related deaths. Subsequent series in 2016 and 2021 emphasized the pressing need for addressing the substantial healthcare burden associated with physical inactivity, focusing on sedentary behaviour, disability, and at-risk populations.
Purpose: We explore the decade-long legacy of The Lancet PA series and leverage the insights gained to explore a new series.
Methods: Using bibliometric assessment and other methods we synthesized the accumulated knowledge and experience over the past decade and impact of the series on the physical activity and public health fields. Particularly, we explored citations, mentions, comparisons to other Lancet series, users by country and profession, and policy utilisation.
Results: The Lancet Series have profoundly impacted the physical activity and public health fields. In this presentation, we will elaborate on the nature of the impact on research, teaching and policy.
Conclusions: The legacy left by The Lancet PA series will provide the platform for a new direction in physical activity research that better informs policy and practice.
Practical implications: Lessons learnt are expected to have practical implications for public health, policy development, and international collaboration. The insights gained are well placed to inform evidence-based strategies for addressing global challenges through targeted interventions related to physical activity, and therefore contributing to the advancement of public health agendas worldwide.
Abstract 2: Reconceptualising physical activity for the age of syndemics using a global equity lens.
Background: The public health and medical communities generally recognise the importance of physical activity for preventing and controlling noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). However, its importance for addressing other major global issues is less well-recognised.
Purpose: This paper uses a global equity lens to shed light on the benefits of physical activity, above and beyond NCD prevention and control, for the age of syndemics (co-occurring pandemics and major global challenges).
Methods: Using nationally representative WHO data from 68 countries, we conducted a harmonized analysis of domain-specific physical activity for leisure, transport, and work; using equity plots and slope indices to quantify socioeconomic and gender-based inequalities. Next, we systematically scoped the literature of physical activity studies during the COVID-19 pandemic, as this recent global crisis underscored the public health relevance of physical activity for the age of syndemics.
Results: Pre-pandemic data revealed within- and between-country socioeconomic inequalities, with higher prevalence of leisure physical activity in higher-income countries and groups; and higher prevalence of utilitarian physical activity in lower-income countries and groups. Gender-based inequality data analysis is underway. The scoping reviews of COVID-19 and physical activity studies showed that (a) physical activity inequalities may have widened due to COVID-19; (b) physical activity was inversely associated with adverse COVID-19 related outcomes, underscoring the often-unrecognized importance of physical activity for infectious disease and immunity; and (c) physical activity may have buffered some of the negative mental health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, underscoring its mental health benefits.
Conclusions: The current age of syndemics is challenged by the global crises of infectious diseases and NCDs, mental health problems, persistent health inequalities, and climate change; all of which can benefit from physical activity.
Practical Implications: It is critical to reconceptualise physical activity as a factor with high relevance to multiple elements of modern-day syndemics.
Abstract 3: Living, moving, and playing on a sustainable and healthy planet: the urgency of combining physical activity and climate change agendas
Background: Climate change is the most dangerous self-inflicted catastrophe ever experienced by humanity, and physical inactivity is responsible for more than 5 million deaths per year worldwide.
Purpose: We have an opportunity to align and mobilise policy, research, and action toward the dual goals of mitigating climate change risks and promoting human health through physical activity.
Methods: We conceptualise the interconnection between frameworks on physical activity and climate change across ISPAHโs Strategies that Work for Physical Activity using applied systems thinking tools. We also address unintended consequences, consider inequities, and offer analytical frameworks for further research. Physical activity is in many ways reciprocally linked to climate change.
Results: Physical activity solutions can supplement the response to climate change. We propose a framework for action whereby advancing physical activity promotion can simultaneously reduce health and environmental inequities, mitigate climate change, and adapt both environment and behaviour long term for a changing climate.
Conclusions: Advancing physical activity and climate change agendas equitably must consider context and input from vulnerable populations, including low-income country residents and ancestral knowledge from indigenous peoples.
Practical implications: The dual goal of bringing together physical activity and climate agendas to address human and planetary health must be prioritised urgently, taking a multisectoral collaborative approach focusing on comprehensive and holistic actions through policy change and budget reprioritisations. These changes will require developing policy frameworks, providing financial incentives, mandating sustainable practices, and launching educational and awareness campaigns that prioritise physical activity for the dual goal of protecting the environment and individual health.
Abstract 4: Two-decade progress of national and global physical activity policy
Background: Physical activity policy has the potential to play an important role in conjoining multiple societal sectors to generate supportive environments that increase population physical activity.
Purpose: The purpose of this project was to document trends in the global status of physical activity policy.
Methods: We evaluated global physical activity policy changes from 2004 to 2023 based on policy monitoring from the Global Observatory for Physical Activity (GoPA!) in 217 countries.
Results: The data arranged by GoPA! highlights a notable increase from 2012 (year of the first The Lancet Physical Activity Series) onwards in the prevalence of national physical activity policies over the past two decades. Approximately nine in ten (89.4%) countries now have formal written policies; either a national NCD policy including physical activity or a standalone physical activity policy. A greater number of standalone policies was seen in the European region compared to other World Health Organization ((WHO) regions. Persistent gaps exist in policy and guideline availability in Africa, South-East-Asia, and low-income countries. In virtually all countries evaluation of policy implementation was poor. The majority of policies around the world were time-limited and, without action, will end before or in 2030, the year by which the WHO seeks to reduce global risk factors and wants to achieve a 15% relative reduction in physical inactivity.
Conclusions: Many advances in policy monitoring systems and tools have been made since 2012, but systematic global monitoring for physical activity policy, including implementation and evaluation, has yet to be achieved.
Practical implications: Monitoring global physical activity policies to assess progress in national and global physical activity and NCD prevention policies serves to guide efforts, inform decision-making, and drive actions aimed at fostering healthier populations and mitigating the prevalence of physical inactivity.
Funding: Global Observatory for Physical Activity (GoPA!)
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When policy is necessary yet insufficient to address inactivity: Are โweโ up to the challenge?
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What works and what doesnโt? Discussing ways to co-create activity promoting neighborhoods with youth.
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Scaling-up and sustaining physical activity interventions: A mountain too high?
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Inequalities in physical activity among children from low- and middle-income countries: the SUNRISE International Study
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Physical Activity: the more always the better, or does the context and equilibrium matter?
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Promoting physical activity within healthcare systems globally
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Development of health promotion in sports clubs: interventions, key skills, successes and challenges
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The importance of playgrounds for childrenโs active outdoor play
The importance of playgrounds for childrenโs active outdoor play
Purpose: The purpose of this symposium is to present an overview of the importance of playgrounds for childrenโs active outdoor play
Description: Active outdoor play is important for childrenโs health and development, and playgrounds can provide good places for play. But how do we create good playgrounds in public open spaces, early childhood education and care (ECEC) and schools, that children like to use for active outdoor play? What works, for which type of children, in which context?
In this symposium, four presentations from the United States, Australia and Denmark will shed light on the importance of playgrounds in different settings for childrenโs active outdoor play. Furthermore, the presentations will include multiple novel methods to measure active outdoor play, and will highlight the importance of engaging children and other stakeholders in the development of new playgrounds.
Together, the presentations will provide valuable information that can help policy makers and city planners prioritize investing in the right playgrounds, for the right context.
Chair: Jasper Schipperijn, World Playground Research Institute, University of Southern Denmark
Presenter 1: Hayley Christian, Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, Australia
Presenter 2: Deborah Salvo, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
Presenter 3: Charlotte Pawlowski, World Playground Research Institute, University of Southern Denmark
Presenter 4: Aaron Hipp, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Discussant/moderator: Jasper Schipperijn, World Playground Research Institute, University of Southern Denmark
Presentation 1:
Designing play spaces to promote preschoolers physical activity at early childhood education and care (ECEC)
Authors: Hayley Christian1,2, Jasper Schipperijn3, Pulan Bai1,2, Stewart Trost4
1Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2School of Population and Global Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
3World Playground Research Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Odense Denmark
4School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Background: ECEC is an important setting to promote preschooler physical activity. The outdoor physical environment has significant potential to influence preschoolersโ physical activity while attending ECEC. Few interventions or studies using device-based measures of childrenโs physical activity and the ECEC physical environment have been undertaken.
Purpose: Summarize findings from multiple PLAYCE cohort sub-studies investigating the impact of the ECEC outdoor physical environment on young childrenโs physical activity.
Methods: Wave 1 findings from the โPlay Spaces and Environments for Childrenโs Physical Activityโ (PLAYCE) cohort study will be presented and summarised. In wave 1, 1596 preschoolers aged 2โ5 years and their parents were recruited from 104 ECEC services across Perth, Western Australia. Physical activity was measured by 7-day accelerometry and GPS. The Environment and Policy Assessment and Observation (EPAO) Instrument and Nearmap aerial imagery captured the ECEC physical environment.
Results: Sandboxes, portable play equipment (balls, slides, floor play equipment) and natural grassed areas were positively associated with preschooler physical activity. The addition of new portable equipment including balls, slides, twirling and floor play equipment resulted in intervention children being more active at follow-up. Spatial data confirmed physical activity hot spots were most common in outdoor open areas and areas with fixed play equipment and natural features.
Conclusions: Fixed and portable play equipment, natural features, and the amount of running space in ECEC outdoor areas and its location in relation to other play areas are important for facilitating physical activity in preschoolers.
Practical implications: Since few preschoolers meet daily energetic play recommendations while at ECEC,
the findings can support ECEC providers to optimize outdoor physical environments and encourage more active play among preschoolers.
Funding: The PLAYCE Study was funded by the Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation (Healthway #32018). HC is supported by an Australian National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellowship (#102549).
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Identifying priorities for improving playground access equity in Austin, Texas, USA: a mixed-methods, community-engaged study
Authors: Deborah Salvo,1 Case Garza,1 Eugen Resendiz1
1 People, Health and Place Lab, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, The University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas, USA
Background: Parks and playgrounds are critical built environment resources for childrenโs health and development. For many children, playgrounds are the only place for physical activity practice after school, on weekends, and/or during non-school months.
Purpose: To characterize playground access (in)equity in Austin, Texas, USA; and to engage key stakeholders and community members for identifying priorities for playground improvements.
Methods: This study uses a mixed-methods approach. Using GIS, we are mapping all playgrounds in Austin, Texas, and identifying neighbourhoods with high versus low playground availability. We will explore differences in playground access by underlying sociodemographic characteristics of neighbourhoods (income, race/ethnic composition of residents) to diagnose inequities. We are further collecting audit-based and imagery (photography) data in 8 low-income neighbourhoods with high proportions of minoritized residents, to assess the current upkeep/quality of playgrounds in these areas. Additionally, a systematic organizational mapping exercise is underway to identify key people, groups, organizations, and agencies with an interest or influence on playground improvement, renovations, maintenance, and programming. Finally, we are conducting 2-5 key stakeholder/community-member semi-structured interviews with representatives of key sectors (parks and recreation, public safety, environmental protection, placemaking community-based groups), to identify priorities for playground improvements.
Results: Data collection is underway, and will finalize in early May, 2023. Final results will be presented at ISPAH 2024.
Conclusions: Ensuring equity in access to playgrounds is critical for promoting healthy development in children, and for achieving physical activity and health equity.
Practical implications: Using a data-driven approach to identify high need areas, and engaging key stakeholders, including key public sectors are critical approaches for informing the design and implementation of contextually-responsive programs to improve playground access and utilization in high need areas.
Funding: This study was partially funded by the World Playground Research Institute, University of Southern Denmark.
Presentation 3:
How to design activating school playgrounds for 9-12 year-olds
Authors: Charlotte Skau Pawlowskiยน, Thea Toft Amholt2, Jasper Schipperijnยน
1World Playground Research Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Odense Denmark
2Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Frederiksberg Hospital, Frederiksberg, Denmark
Background: School playgrounds are a unique place to promote physical activity for children. However, physical activity on school playgrounds decreases when children get older. Several of our studies have shown that there is a relation between school playground design and physical activity among older schoolchildren.
Purpose: The aim was to compile our evidence and develop recommendations for designing activating school playgrounds for 9-12 year-olds.
Methods: We have compiled our evidence from two school playground studies in Denmark conducted between 2016-2022. In each of the mixed-methods studies, we looked at the relation between physical activity among 9-12-year-olds and school playground design. Using combined accelerometer and GPS data, we identified which type of schoolyard features were used for physical activity. Using go-along interviews, we identified six types of children with different activity preferences. Combining data, we identified which schoolyard features were used by which type of children.
Results: To stimulate active use by 9-12-year-olds, school playgrounds should contain a variety of features such as secluded social areas where they can hang out with each other, areas with age-appropriate physical challenges such as high climbing frames that creates a feeling of risk-taking, sports features such as ball game areas, as well as features for non-competitive activities. Finally, it is important that there is a good balance between paved and natural, vegetated surfaces in the schoolyard.
Conclusions and practical implications: If school playgrounds are designed and built with the right features such as secluded hang-out areas, areas with age-appropriate physically challenging features, as well as sports area, and areas for non-competitive activities, 9-12 years-olds will actively use them, which positively influences their total daily physical activity levels.
Funding: This study was funded by KOMPAN, a large international playground company. KOMPAN has not had any influence on the methods, results or conclusion.
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Childโs Play: What can we learn from AI-based โ clustering algorithms?
Authors: J. Aaron Hippยน, Jae In Oh1, Morgan Hughey2
1North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
2College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA
Background: The study of playgrounds has traditionally been via observations, though use of GPS and accelerometers are becoming more frequent. Use of monitoring devices provide more nuanced understanding of use of space, intensity of activities, and where current playspaces may be under-activated.
Purpose: We recruited a diverse sample of youth from playgrounds located in economically-disadvantaged neighborhoods to understand activity intensity on playgrounds, attribute preference, and play clusters within and between playground amenities.
Methods: 5 โ 10 year olds wore an accelerometer and GPS during a playground visit. Each playground amenity was mapped with a handheld Trimble GPS. GPS and accelerometer data, with 15 second epochs, were joined using HABITUS software. Clusters of play, or play episodes, were created using the ArcGIS density-based clustering algorithm, OPTICS. Clusters were set with a minimum of five consecutive points (1 minute) and maximum distance of 6m between points. OPTICS output provides clusters of play across an individualโs wear-time allowing for the visualization and description of play across time and space.
Results: The dataset included 40,000 15s epochs of playground use from 321 youth. OPTICS identified 1,727 play episodes. The average playground visit included five three-minute episodes of play. 37% of play episodes occurred on playsets, followed by 8% of episodes on swing sets. 43% of play episodes occurred across or between different play areas within playgrounds (e.g., playing on the slide and then running directly to the swings).
Conclusions: Youth play episodes are varied and often between or beyond provided play equipment. Further research is necessary into the layout and design of equipment that best invites active, creative play and incites return visits.
Practical implications: Understanding play episodes on playgrounds can inform the design of specific playground equipment, layout of diverse amenities across a playground, and help activate under-used spaces.
Funding: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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Real-life assessment of physical activity – Insights from the WEALTH European project
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Striving for global equity in physical activity: insights from the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance
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People, Health and Place in Latin America and Latinos: Lessons for Global Physical Activity Promotion
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The ProPASS consortium: Growth, success, challenges and future directions for an international wearables consortium
Purpose: To explore the development of a leading international consortium of observational studies of physical behaviours, including its challenges, scientific potential, future directions and long-term goals.
Description: The development of international consortia of observational studies of physical behaviours offers unprecedented opportunity to understand links between movement health and disease, and to meet global public health priorities. Since its inception in 2017 the ProPASS (Prospective Studies of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour and Sleep) consortium, has developed at pace to include more 30 large observational studies from 5 continents, and is ideally placed to inform the next generation of physical activity guidelines and promotion.
In this symposium we will share the historical journey and development of ProPASS, its success to date, exciting emergent workstreams and a vision for the future. The symposium will include three presentation sessions, during which delegates will hear from 6 members of the ProPASS leadership group, followed by an interactive panel discussion featuring some of our esteemed international collaborators.
In the first of these talks, Professors Emmanuel Stamatakis (University of Sydney) and Mark Hamer (University College London) will set out the ProPASS mission and its potential future impact, and share valuable insights regarding opportunities and challenges created by ProPASS success and continued growth. Presentation two will focus on key success from the last 12 months. Dr Jo Blodgett (University College London) and Dr Matthew Ahmadi (University of Sydney) will describe the first papers from analyses of the ProPASS pooled data resource which focus on cardiometabolic health and associations with intensity, duration, and type of movement behaviours. In our third presentation, led by Associate Professor Annemarie Koster (Maastricht University) with Dr Jo Blodgett and Dr Matthew Ahmadi, delegates will have the opportunity to hear about new directions and exciting emergent workstreams involving compositional approaches, exploration of device-measured sleep volume and variability, and of physical activity micropatterns.
The symposium will close with an interactive panel discussion where delegates and our expert panel can consider key questions and share ideas on the topic: โThe present and future of observational physical behaviour research: the role of wearablesโ.
Chair: Dr Richard Pulsford. Faculty of Health and Life Science. University of Exeter, United Kingdom
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– Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis. Charles Perkins Centre, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia,
– Professor Mark Hamer, Institute of Sport Exercise & Health, UCL, London, United Kingdom
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– Dr Joanna M Blodgett. Institute of Sport Exercise & Health, UCL, and University College London Hospitals NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK
– Dr Matthew Ahmadi. Charles Perkins Centre, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Session 3:
– Dr Joanna M Blodgett. Institute of Sport Exercise & Health, UCL, and University College London Hospitals NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK
– Dr Matthew Ahmadi. Charles Perkins Centre, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
– Associate Professor Annemarie Koster. Department of Social Medicine, CAPHRI Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
Abstract 1: Vision and potential impact of the ProPASS consortium: securing the longevity of large international physical activity collaborations
Speakers: Emmanuel Stamatakis, Mark Hamer
Background: The Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting, and Sleep consortium (ProPASS) was launched in 2017 to spearhead the transition to wearables-based evidence for physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep guidelines development. ProPASS currently involves c>100 collaborators and nearly 30 cohort studies. As an international consortium, ProPASS is unique in that it was not set up merely as a data resource, its activities include methodology development, prospective expansion to new cohorts including a formal ISPAH partnership focused on LMICs, and support of Early Career Researchers.
Purpose: To outline the scope, vision, and future potential impact of ProPASS, and share with the ISPAH community the lessons learnt during its development.
Methods: We will first discuss how ProPASS emerged, its vision and the strategy for achieving it, the challenges faced, and its current and likely future impact. The second part of this session will focus on funding strategy and challenges and will highlight the road ahead for the next 4-5 years when the work for the development of the next WHO Guidelines will likely commence.
Results: Despite adverse funding conditions commonly encountered in epidemiological research, ProPASS has grown very fast and is already making an impact in the broader fields of physical behaviour and physical activity. However, its trajectory to date alone is not guarantee of future success. As ProPASS grows so does its breadth of activities and its resource needs. This creates opportunities for more impact but also poses threats on its longevity.
Conclusions: Although ProPASS stands on solid foundations, the next 5 years are critical in determining to what extend ProPASS will fulfil its vision. The support of organisations like ISPAH and its community, will likely be critical for its success.
Practical implications: We will share with the ISPAH Congress insights and lessons learnt from the ProPASS consortium and highlight future directions.
Abstract 2. Key successes from ProPASS consortium: first published papers from six cohorts from our pilot resource
Speakers: Joanna M Blodgett, Matthew Ahmadi
Background: Here we summarise results from the first empirical papers from ProPASS, published in the last year in the European Heart Journal and Diabetologia.
Purpose: We investigated: i) interdependent associations of moderate-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), light intensity PA (LIPA), standing, sedentary behaviour (SB) and sleep with cardiometabolic outcomes; and ii) dose-response associations between activity type (standing, walking, stair climbing, fast walking/running) and cardiometabolic outcomes.
Methods: We pooled data from six cohort studies (n>15,000). Raw accelerometer data was re-processed using the ActiPASS software. For aim i, we conducted compositional logistic regression to explore associations between various compositions of time spent in movement behaviors and six cardiometabolic outcomes, and investigate various behavioural reallocation modelling estimates. For aim ii, we employed generalized linear models with splines to investigate dose-response relationships between activity types and each outcome.
Results: Aim i) More MVPA and less time spent sedentary – relative to sleeping, standing and light activity – was associated with better cardiometabolic outcomes. Less than 10min/day of reallocation of other behaviours into MVPA was associated with significant improvements in outcomes. Aim ii) Accumulating >5 min/day (z-score= -0.14 [-0.24, -0.03] of stair climbing or >64 min/day (-0.14 [-0.25, -0.02] of walking was associated with more favourable composite cardiometabolic health. Every additional minute of stair climbing up to 12 min/day was associated with a similar rate of change as running for the same time interval
Conclusions: Findings on 24-hour movement behaviours may guide more personalised guidance on how an individual can modify their 24-hour movement for cardiometabolic benefits. Findings on cardiometabolic health and durations of different activities of daily living and posture may guide future interventions involving lifestyle modification.
Practical implications: This session will share with the ISPAH Congress audience initial evidence from the ProPASS consortium experience to date and introduce future areas of research.
Practical implications: This session will share with the ISPAH Congress audience initial evidence from the ProPASS consortium experience to date and introduce future areas of research.
Abstract 3. New directions and emergent findings from the first ProPASS resource
Annemarie Koster, Joanna M Blodgett, Matthew Ahmadi
Background: The health benefits of moderate to vigorous physical activity and sleep are well-described. Much less is known about the patterns of physical activity and health and in particular the potential health benefits of very short activity bouts in daily living. Further, fewer studies have investigated the full spectrum of daily movement behaviours (including sleep) and assess their interdependencies on health outcomes.
Purpose: In this session we present results from ongoing analysis from the ProPASS consortium on the i) association between activity micropatterns and ii) sleep duration and regularity with cardiometabolic outcomes; iii) compositional individual participant data analyses on sedentary behaviour, sleep, standing, walking (light and fast) and exercise-like behaviours with blood pressure.
Methods: In the first ProPASS recourse we harmonised data from over 15,000 participants across six international cohort studies. Outcomes included body mass index, waist circumference, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, total cholesterol, triglycerides, HbA1c, systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure.
Results: We will use generalised linear models with splines to examine dose-response associations between micropatternns of physical activity (aim i) and sleep (aim ii) with cardiometabolic outcomes. We will conduct compositional data analysis to examine associations between different compositions of time spent in movement behaviours and each blood pressure outcome, including examining minimal and optimal reallocation of time between behaviours (aim iii).
Conclusions: These studies will provide insight into associations of novel aspects of physical behaviour and health and how reallocating time in one behaviour by another behaviour affects health.
Practical implications: This session shows the scientific value of the first ProPASS resource for novel research on physical behaviour and health.
Funding (all abstracts): British Heart Foundation Special Grant (SP/F/20/150002); NHMRC (Australia) Investigator Grant (APP1194510); NHMRC Ideas Grant (APP1180812); Cancer Research UK Prevention and Population Grant (PRCPJT-Nov23/100005); PAL Technologies; University of Sydney Research Accelerator (SOAR); WUN, The Worldwide Universities Network; Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney.
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General Symposia Guidelines
For the 10th ISPAH Congress, we are seeking a wide representation of symposia and workshops from the international community, including underrepresented regions. Time available for each symposium will be 75 min, and all presentations must be in-person, without hybrid options. All symposium speakers need to be registered before September 15, 2024 for the symposium to stay on the programme.
- The ISPAH Congress is the worldโs largest global forum related to physical activity and public health. Therefore, speakers within a symposium should be as diverse as possible, and come from at least two different countries.
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Important Note: The presenting author MUST be registered for the Congress and is responsible for the registration fees (and accommodation and travel costs where applicable). If there is a change in the presenting author, please notify the Organizing Committee by sending an email via our helpdesk form in your abstracts dashboard no later than September 15, 2024. If the presenting author is not registered by September 15, the submission will be removed from the programme.
Regular Symposia Guidelines
The regular symposia will have a Chair who will provide a short introduction/background on a specific topic followed by 3-5 presenters, followed by a discussion actively involving the audience, often led by a discussant or a moderator. The chair can act as discussant or moderator, if the chair is not one of the presenters.
Criteria for submission
- Coming from at least 3 different organisations from 2 different countries
- Including 3-5 presentations
- Abstracts must include a clear statement on how interaction with the audience will be stimulated
The structure should be as follows:
Title: The title should represent the overall topic (max 15 words)
Purpose: State the primary purpose of this symposium.
Description: Include an overall symposium description (the purpose and description should collectively be no more than 300 words)
Chair (Name and Affiliation):
Presenter 1 (Name and Affiliation):
Presenter 2 (Name and Affiliation):
Presenter 3 (Name and Affiliation):
Discussant/moderator (Name and Affiliation):
After the overall abstract for the symposium, the chair will need to include the individual abstracts for each presenter. Each presenter should prepare an individual abstract following the same format as the oral and E-poster abstracts ensuring the title is no more than 15 words and the description a maximum of 300 words for each individual abstract:
Research Abstracts
Background:
Purpose:
Methods:
Results:
Conclusions:
Practical implications:
Funding:
Practice/Policy Abstracts
Background:
Program Delivery or Policy Components:
Evaluation:
Conclusions:
Practical implications:
Funding:
Debate Symposia Guidelines
These sessions will fit within 75 minutes and will open the floor for a debate between 2 teams having different vision of a particular topic, before opening for questions and answers and interaction with the audience.
Criteria for submission
1) Speakers should come from at least 2 different organisations from 2 different countries
2) Abstracts must include a clear statement on how interaction with the audience will be stimulated
The debate symposia will have a Chair or Moderator who will provide an introduction on a specific controversial topic (approximately 10 minutes). This will be followed by affirmative and opposing presenters (1 or 2 for each side), who will provide arguments โforโ and โagainstโ the debate topic area (15-20 minutes each). Each side should present their initial stance, which will be followed by a rebuttal from each side. If there are two presenters for each side, one presenter should provide the initial presentation while the other should present the rebuttal. This will be followed by a 30-minute discussion.
Title: The title should represent the topic area and its controversial nature.
Purpose: A statement of the purpose of the debate, emphasizing what is innovative about the topic (including a brief description of the topic)
Rationale: Why is this topic worthy of addressing at this conference and why this is a debatable topic?
Chair (Name and Affiliation): Introduction to Debate
Affirmative Presentation(s) [Name(s) and Affiliation(s)]: Title and short description
Opposing Presentation(s) [Name(s) and Affiliation(s)]: Title and short description
Alternate view Presentation [optional] [Name(s) and Affiliation(s)]: Title and short description
Conclusions or Outcomes: Identify the key anticipated conclusions or outcomes from this innovative debate.