Latest NICE guidelines for managing chronic pain now include offering supervised group exercise programmes and encouraging people to remain physically active.
Source: Nice.org.uk/guidance/ng193 April 2021
Analysis on the inequalities, resulting in major themes including enablers, barriers and opportunity, community consultation and a holistic approach for protected characteristics
Source: PHE January 2021
Lynn PR has analysed the current situation and created a briefing paper, which maps the challenges, requirements, and solutions for addressing increased mental health issues in the UK population, specifically using models of strategic communications, data and behavioural science.
Source: Lynn PR February 2021
A team of academics reviewed existing research highlighting that parkrun participants show improvements in, among other things, fitness, total physical activity, and mood.
Source: Parkrun. Nov 2020
The pandemic has seen most children in England slipping back with their learning - and some have gone significantly back with their social skills, says Ofsted. This has included a loss of physical fitness
Source: BBC, Nov 2020
The publication draws together evidence on the social determinants of mental health, how they have been impacted in previous infectious disease outbreaks or recessions; and links to early data and pre-published evidence on how the determinants were affected during lockdown.
Source: PHE September 2020
Latest Active Lives survey release shows increase in inactivity across England, but steady in Gloucestershire, with no significant change.
Source: Sport England, October 2020
Active Lives research reveals that active people are happier and more satisfied with their lives – and are less likely to experience anxiety. Adults being active are 57% more likely to experience higher levels of perceived self-efficacy
Source: Sport England, 2017
The mechanisms underlying the antidepressant effects of exercise remain in debate; however, the efficacy of exercise in decreasing symptoms of depression has been well established. Data regarding the positive mood effects of exercise involvement, independent of fitness gains, suggest that the focus should be on frequency of exercise rather than duration or intensity until the behavior has been well established.
Source: NCBI, 2014
Six neighbourhoods in Hastings with high levels of deprivation were selected for doorstep resident interviews. High levels of inactivity are closely associated with deprivation. Specifically income, education and local area deprivation. Even low-cost activities such as walking are affected by deprivation . These interviews sought to understand residents’ activity rates, the barriers they faced to becoming active, and the support they would like from clubs, coaches, volunteers and staff.
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This Blueprint has been designed to complement existing national and local capital investment schemes, initiatives like the Sports Facilities Capital Loan Scheme and the All Wales Artificial Turf Pitch Vision and Guidance. The intention is to provide a point of reference and support, to help inform responsible and sustainable decisionmaking on the design, provision and maintenance of sport and recreation facilities. The Sport and active recreation facilities that can provide those opportunities
the majority of people with hip and knee OA do not meet physical activity guidelines, and are less active than their age-matched counterparts. Importantly, physical inactivity in people with OA also increases their risk of a number of comorbidities and functional decline, leading to higher health care costs. As walking 150 minutes per week might not be tolerable for individuals with end-stage knee OA, other types of physical activity, such as biking and walking with Nordic poles (walking poles s
The deep-rooted inequalities that mean people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds are far less likely to be physically active have been laid bare in a new Sport England report.
Source: https://www.sportengland.org/sportforall/
sport-for-all.pdf
(January 2020)
