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Getting to know the link worker workforce

This report highlights the role the National Association of Link Workers (NALW) can play in coordinating link worker support and development across the UK and providing peer support, networking and professional development support that link workers need whilst juggling all the relationships, information and skills that they need in order to keep successfully supporting their service users.

Opinion: Sport England Research - Are new habits forming during the crisis?

Today's Sport England survey data shows interesting findings on how people are engaging in exercise within the limits of current social distancing rules and suggests there's a possibly growing stronger appreciation of the importance of exercising. More detailed work is needed to understand how far peoples' behaviour has changed from their usual patterns, and to gauge what the likelihood is of new habits forming into a new normal for individuals and families. Source: Sports think tank April 2020

How the Corona Crisis Reveals the Power of Social Learning

The current COVID-19 crisis strikingly illustrates the power of social learning compared to individual, trial-and-error learning, which has less to offer under the current circumstances. learning is not restricted to the effects of personal experience. In fact, a considerable part of our behavior seems to be the result of observing other people’s behavior or hearing/reading about their interactions with the world. Source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/spontaneous-thoughts/202004/how-

Change a region to change a nation Greater Manchester’s walking and cycling investment plan

The plan would see £1.5bn invested in the Bee Network, 1,800 miles of cycling and walking routes over the region. The goal is to create a model which could be replicated across the country. Source: https://theconversation.com/greater-manchesters-cycling-plan-is-a-radical-much-needed-approach-now-it-needs-funding-131419 (February 2020)

Why I had to go on TV to lose weight

I’d heard Tom Kerridge was going to be filming a show in his home town of Gloucester and was looking for people to take part. The idea was that he and 11 locals would take on a challenge to regain control of their weight, and get fitter and healthier in the process. It’s improved all areas of my life and I’ve made new friends in the process. I know I can keep going and keep achieving. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/before_after_weight-loss (February 2020)

Open-Access Physical Activity Programs for Older Adults: A Pragmatic and Systematic Review

The results indicate notable differences between peer-reviewed literature and Extension programs and present an opportunity for Extension programs to more effectively use evidence-based program characteristics, including behavioral theories and group dynamics, a combination of physical activity components, and educator/agent-trained delivery agents. Source: https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article-abstract/59/4/e268/4796914?redirectedFrom=fulltext (January 2019)

Why your people want to get healthy… but can’t

The healthiest organisations from the Britain’s Healthiest Workplace survey were able to save an average of 11.5 days of unproductive time per person per year compared to a typical workplace. For an organisation employing 1,000 people, that amounts to 11,500 working days a year, which is equivalent to employing another 50 people. Source: https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/why-your-people-want-to-get-healthy-but-cant/ (February 2020)

The ability to benefit from an intervention to encourage use of treadmill workstations: Experiences of office workers with overweight or obesity

One way to increase physical activity in offices is to install treadmill workstations. In this 13-month study, we explored the experiences of office workers with treadmill workstations available in their offices. Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0228194#sec018 (January 2020)

A collaborative approach to developing sustainable behaviour change interventions for childhood obesity prevention: Development of the Choosing Healthy Eating for Infant Health (CHErIsH) intervention

This study describes an innovative use of the Behaviour Change Wheel to integrate multiple sources of evidence collected from practice, policy, research, and parent stakeholders to concurrently develop an evidence-based intervention to improve parental infant feeding behaviours and an implementation strategy to facilitate sustainable delivery by health care professionals in routine primary care. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31999887 (January 2020)

PHE Case study: Active Hospitals

The Active Hospital feasibility and acceptability pilot explores integrating physical activity interventions in a secondary care setting. Specific physical activity behaviour change interventions were designed, implemented and mapped alongside existing care using the Behaviour Change Wheel (Mitchie and others, 2011). One of the most successful interventions, the maternity pathway, has enhanced care through all pregnant women undergoing assessment and receiving brief physical activity advice.