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Objectively measured daily physical activity and postural changes as related to positive and negative affect using ambulatory monitoring assessments

Aggio, D; Wallace, K; Boreham, N; Shankar, A; Steptoe, A; Hamer, M (2017) Objectively measured daily physical activity and postural changes as related to positive and negative affect using ambulatory monitoring assessments. Psychosomatic Medicine, 79 (7). pp. 792-797. ISSN 1534-7796 https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000000485
SGUL Authors: Shankar, Aparna

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Abstract

Objective: To determine whether objectively measured daily physical activity and posture of sitting, standing, and sit-to-stand transitions, are associated with daily assessments of affect Methods: Participants (n=51, 49% female) wore ActivPal accelerometers for 24 hours/day for seven consecutive days. Time spent sitting, standing and being physically active and sit-to-stand transitions were derived for each day. Participants also completed a mood inventory each evening. Multilevel models examined within- and between-person associations of daily physical activity with positive and negative affect, adjusting for age, sex, BMI, education and sleep duration. Results: Within-person associations showed that a one hour increase in daily physical activity was associated with a decrease in negative affect over the same day (B = -0.11 95% Confidence Interval [CI], -0.21 to -0.01). Between-person associations indicated a borderline significant association between higher average daily physical activity levels and higher positive affect (B = 1.85 95% CI, -0.25 to 3.94). There were no between or within person associations between sitting, standing and sit-to-stand transitions with affect. Conclusion: Promoting physical activity may be a potential intervention strategy to acutely supress negative affective states.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Psychiatry, 11 Medical And Health Sciences, 17 Psychology And Cognitive Sciences
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: Academic Structure > Population Health Research Institute (INPH)
Journal or Publication Title: Psychosomatic Medicine
ISSN: 1534-7796
Dates:
DateEvent
September 2017Published
31 May 2017Published Online
26 April 2017Accepted
Publisher License: Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0
Projects:
Project IDFunderFunder ID
FS/15/70/32044British Heart Foundationhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000274
URI: https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/108903
Publisher's version: https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000000485

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