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Background: With diabetes rates escalating globally, there is the need for a better integration of all aspects of diabetes care for improved population outcomes. An understanding, not only of regional but global literature on physical activity barriers and its facilitators is important if healthcare providers and policy makers are to create programs tailored to their populations.
Objectives: Herein, we report the results of a narrative review of the global barriers and facilitators of physical activity for patients with diabetes mellitus.
Methodology: An in-depth literature search was conducted to identify English-language studies that examined physical activity barriers and associated facilitators among patients with diabetes mellitus. Major electronic literature databases that were searched included Google Scholar, PubMed, Hub-Med, and Highwire.
Results: Studies were available from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and, predominantly North America. A total of 34 predominantly internal barriers emerged globally. The most commonly reported were time constrains, fear of provoking additional disorders, exercise venue and weather related barriers. Facilitators of physical activity were reported for most of the internal barriers (e.g. time constraints, lack of knowledge etc) while the external barriers (e.g. weather, environmental pollution etc) received only a minimal attention.
Conclusions: Globally, patients with diabetes are confronted with an enormous number of physical activity barriers. Unlike the robust solutions proffered for the internal barriers, the literature is largely silent about solutions to the external barriers, which though fewer, may be highly influential. Additional data is needed to better understand physical activity behaviors in populations outside of North America.
Keywords: Barriers, Diabetes mellitus, Facilitators, Health promotion, Physical activity.
Current Diabetes Reviews
Title:Global Account of Barriers and Facilitators of Physical Activity Among Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: A Narrative Review of the Literature
Volume: 12 Issue: 4
Author(s): Ade F. Adeniyi, Ranjit M. Anjana and Mary B. Weber
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Keywords: Barriers, Diabetes mellitus, Facilitators, Health promotion, Physical activity.
Abstract: Background: With diabetes rates escalating globally, there is the need for a better integration of all aspects of diabetes care for improved population outcomes. An understanding, not only of regional but global literature on physical activity barriers and its facilitators is important if healthcare providers and policy makers are to create programs tailored to their populations.
Objectives: Herein, we report the results of a narrative review of the global barriers and facilitators of physical activity for patients with diabetes mellitus.
Methodology: An in-depth literature search was conducted to identify English-language studies that examined physical activity barriers and associated facilitators among patients with diabetes mellitus. Major electronic literature databases that were searched included Google Scholar, PubMed, Hub-Med, and Highwire.
Results: Studies were available from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and, predominantly North America. A total of 34 predominantly internal barriers emerged globally. The most commonly reported were time constrains, fear of provoking additional disorders, exercise venue and weather related barriers. Facilitators of physical activity were reported for most of the internal barriers (e.g. time constraints, lack of knowledge etc) while the external barriers (e.g. weather, environmental pollution etc) received only a minimal attention.
Conclusions: Globally, patients with diabetes are confronted with an enormous number of physical activity barriers. Unlike the robust solutions proffered for the internal barriers, the literature is largely silent about solutions to the external barriers, which though fewer, may be highly influential. Additional data is needed to better understand physical activity behaviors in populations outside of North America.
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Adeniyi F. Ade, Anjana M. Ranjit and Weber B. Mary, Global Account of Barriers and Facilitators of Physical Activity Among Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: A Narrative Review of the Literature, Current Diabetes Reviews 2016; 12 (4) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1573399812666160609102956
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1573399812666160609102956 |
Print ISSN 1573-3998 |
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |
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