Implementation of interventions to maintain and promote the functional mobility of nursing home residents - a scoping review.

Background: To provide an overview of the available evidence on the implementation of direct and capacity-building interventions to promote and maintain the functional mobility of nursing home residents.

Methods: We conducted a scoping review following the methodological guidance for the conduct of scoping reviews as described by the Joanna Briggs Institute. We searched for studies in MEDLINE (via PubMed) and CINAHL (via EBSCO).

Development and reliability testing of an audit toolbox for the assessment of the physical activity friendliness of urban and rural environments in Germany.

Background: According to socio-ecological theories, physical activity behaviors are linked to the physical and social neighborhood environment. Reliable and contextually adapted instruments are needed to assess environmental characteristics related to physical activity. This work aims to develop an audit toolbox adapted to the German context, to urban and rural settings, for different population groups, and different types of physical activity; and to evaluate its inter-rater reliability.

Health promotion and disease prevention registries in the EU: a cross country comparison.

Background: Health promotion and disease prevention programme registries (HPPRs), also called 'best practice portals', serve as entry points and practical repositories that provide decision-makers with easy access to (evidence-based) practices. However, there is limited knowledge of differences or overlaps of howe current national HPPRs in Europe function, the context and circumstances in which these HPPRs were developed, and the mechanisms utilised by each HPPR for the assessment, classification and quality improvement of the included practices. This study prepared an overview of different approaches in several national HPPRs and the EU Best Practice Portal (EU BPP) as well as identified commonalities and differences among the core characteristics of the HPPRs.

Interventions simultaneously promoting social participation and physical activity in community living older adults: A systematic review.

Background: In recent years, there has been a global trend toward an increase in life expectancy and the proportion of elderly people among the population. In this regard, it becomes important to promote active and healthy aging. Physical inactivity and social isolation are both risk factors of many chronic illnesses and highly prevalent in older adults.

Organizational Capacity Building in Nursing Facilities to Promote Resident Mobility: A Systematic Review.

Objectives: The objective of the present systematic review was to investigate the effects of organizational capacity building interventions on the environment, nursing staff capacity, and mobility of residents in nursing facilities.

Design: Systematic review.

Setting And Participants: Nursing facilities, staff, and residents.

[Promotion of physical activity among the elderly as an example of knowledge translation: How do scientific findings enter community practice?].

Background: Scientific findings can be an important source of knowledge for public health stakeholders involved in promoting physical activity, but several barriers hinder their use. Knowledge translation can simplify this process, but it requires the understanding of the stakeholder's needs.

Objectives: This qualitative study aims to describe how public health stakeholders access information and scientific findings, identify possible barriers, and highlight the needs of stakeholders in terms of presentation and processing.

[Development of intervention databases to promote evidence-based prevention and health promotion-methodological considerations].

Municipal actors do not experience sufficient scientific support in the development and selection of preventive and health promoting interventions. Intervention databases can remedy this by presenting scientifically validated and well-documented interventions. This allows local decisions to be informed by scientific evidence on the effectiveness of interventions.

A Systematic Review of Data Collection Techniques Used to Measure Preschool Children's Knowledge of and Preference for Physical Activity.

Background: Early childhood has been identified as a crucial period in which children develop physical activity preferences and behaviors. Both the knowledge of and preferences for physical activity are key proximal indicators of activity choices in children. Thus, accurate data collection tools are required to measure these variables.

"It's like you are in the jungle": Using the draw-and-tell method to explore preschool children's play preferences and factors that shape their active play.

Issue Addressed: A child's preference for active or sedentary play is a key proximal indicator of a child's physical activity behaviour. There is a need to understand children's physical activity preferences in order to make physical play more enjoyable to them, and this may encourage participation and a more positive relationship with physical activity. To date, little research has incorporated the perspectives of young children on this topic.