International PhD course: Physical activity and wellbeing in a lifespan

physical-activityInternational PhD course, May 5-6 2014, at University of Southern Denmark, Odense

2 ECTS

Organizer: Gisela Sjøgaard


Monday 5.5.2014

  • 10-12 Barbara E. Ainsworth: “Physical Activity, Fitness, and Health.”
  • 12.13 Lunch & networking
  • 13-14 Jens Troelsen: “Environmental factors significance for levels of physical activity”
  • 14-15 Karen Søgaard: “Work related physical activity and health”
  • 15-15.30 Coffee
  • 15.30-17.00 PhD student presentations

Tuesday 6.5.20014

  • 10-11 Andreas Holtermann: “Quantification of physical activity at the job”
  • 11-12 Barbara E. Ainsworth:  “Quantification of physical activity at leisure”
  • 12-13 Lunch & networking
  • 13-14.30 PhD student presentations
  • 14.30-15 Coffee
  • 15-16 Gisela Sjøgaard: “Perspectives of sports science in occupational workload and health”
  • 16 – 17 Discussion & Evaluation 

Curriculum for the PhD course:

Assessing urban walking trail use and changes in the trail environment using systematic observational protocols. Meyers, Duncan C.; Wilson, Dawn K.; Kugler, Kassandra A.; et al. HEALTH & PLACE Volume: 18 Issue: 5 Pages: 991-999

Assessment of Activity Patterns Using Multiple Accelerometer Epochs.  Meckes, Nathanael; Herrmann, Stephen D.; Ainsworth, Barbara E. MEDICINE AND SCIENCE IN SPORTS AND EXERCISE. Volume 44 Supplement: 2 Page 217 Published: MAY 2012

Evaluation of a Cell Phone-Based Physical Activity Diary. Sternfeld, Barbara; Jiang, Sheng-Fang; Picchi, Teresa; et al. MEDICINE AND SCIENCE IN SPORTS AND EXERCISE Volume: 44 Issue: 3 Pages: 487-495 DOI:10.1249/MSS.0b013e3182325f45 Published: MAR 2012

Instrument selection for randomized controlled trials: Why this and not that? Records, Kathie; Keller, Colleen; Ainsworth, Barbara; et al. CONTEMPORARY CLINICAL TRIALS Volume: 33 Issue: 1 Pages: 143-150 DOI:10.1016/j.cct.2011.09.006 Published: JAN 2012

Recommendations to Improve the Accuracy of Estimates of Physical Activity Derived From Self Report
Author(s): Ainsworth, Barbara E.; Caspersen, Carl J.; Matthews, Charles E.; et al. JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY & HEALTH Volume: 9 Supplement: 1 Pages: S76-S84Published: JAN 2012

A Checklist for Evaluating the Methodological Quality of Validation Studies on Self-Report Instruments for Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior.  Hagstromer, Maria; Ainsworth, Barbara E.; Kwak, Lydia; et al.
Source: JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY & HEALTH Volume: 9 Supplement: 1  S29-S36. 2012

Associations between neighbourhood walkability and cycling in Denmark. Madsen, T., Schipperijn, J., Troelsen, J., Breum, L., Duncan, S. & Sick Nielsen, T. 2013 I : Cycling Research International. 3, s. 154-170

Associations between physical activity and characteristics of urban green spaceSchipperijn, J., Bentsen, P., Troelsen, J., Toftager, M. & Stigsdotter, A. U. K. 2013 I : Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. 12, 1, s. 109–116

Building in Prevention: Nudging Towards Physical Activity and Public Health. Troelsen, J. 2013 Neighbourhood Structure and Health Promotion. Stock, C. & Ellaway, A. (red.). New York: Springer Science+Business Media B.V., Kap. 13, s. 249-266 18 s.

K. Søgaard & G. Sjøgaard Book chapter: Physiological Bases of Work Assessment, in: Evaluation of Human Work, 4th Edition. Publisher: CRC. In Press 2014

Holtermann A, Mortensen OS, Burr H, Søgaard K, Gyntelberg F, Suadicani P.  Physical demands at work, physical fitness, and 30-year risk ischemic heart disease mortality. Scand J Work  Environ  36:357-365 2010

G. Sjøgaard and K. Søgaard. Myalgia, Chronic. In: Encyclopedia of Exercise Medicine in Health and Disease, edited by F. C. Mooren,Springer, 2012, p. 613-616.

K. Søgaard, A. K. Blangsted, P. K. Nielsen, L. Hansen, L. L. Andersen, P. Vedsted, and G. Sjøgaard. Changed activation, oxygenation, and pain response of chronically painful muscles to repetitive work after training interventions: a randomized controlled trial. Eur.J.Appl.Physiol 112:173-181, 2012.

Holtermann A, Hansen JV, Burr H, Søgaard K, Sjøgaard G. (2011) The health-paradox of occupational and leisure time physical activity. (Br J Sports Med. 46, 4:291-295, 2012


Template for PhD student abstract submission for a presentation at the course to be submitted before the course to gsjogaard@health.sdu.dk . The abstract can contain a summary of the whole PhD project or of specific parts of the project. It can be in style of protocol paper or if possible contain results.

Title
Author (Surname Initial)1, Supervisor 2 ….
1Affiliations, 2….Additional affiliations if relevant
Introduction
Methods
Results (if available)
Discussion
(try to keep you abstract within 1 A4 page format)

 

 

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