Shane N Sweet

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided a rigorous field test of self-determination theory in a physical activity (PA) context, and the results demonstrated the versatility and applicability of the SDT model for health behavior change.

TL;DR: Findings highlight the positive effects of a trimodal prehabilitation program on patients’ physical activity levels and functional walking capacity and demonstrate that modifying exercise behaviors and improving physical function within the 4-week preoperative period are an achievable goal.

TL;DR: Overall, reviews/meta-analyses showed that single health behaviour interventions were more effective at increasing the targeted behaviours, while multiple health behavior interventions resulted in greater weight loss.

TL;DR: In this article, a study aimed at individually testing and integrating self-determination theory (SDT) and self-efficacy theory (SET) to predict physical activity, and the selected integrated model was compared with the individual theoretical models by examining the number of theoretical links that remained constant and the explained variance in the variables.

TL;DR: Six-week task and barrier self-efficacy had a small mediating effect on the intervention versus control group/13-week PA relationships, whereas the relationship between task self- efficacy and PA became significantly weaker as the trial progressed.