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ARTHRITIS CARE & RESEARCH
Volume 69, Issue 8, Pages 1192-1200Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/acr.23104
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- Keele University Acorn PhD Studentship
- NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureship in Physiotherapy, awarded as part of Professor Christian Mallen's NIHR Research Professorship [NIHR-RP-2014-026)]
- NIHR Research Professorship [NIHR-RP-011-015]
- NIHR School for Primary Care Research
- MRC [G0501798] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0501798] Funding Source: researchfish
- National Institute for Health Research [RP_2014-04-026, NF-SI-0515-10095] Funding Source: researchfish
- Versus Arthritis [19634] Funding Source: researchfish
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Objective. To investigate how attitudes and beliefs about exercise relate to physical activity behavior in older adults with knee pain attributable to osteoarthritis (OA). Methods. We conducted secondary data analyses of a randomized controlled trial of exercise interventions (ISRCTN: 93634563). Participants were adults >= 45 years old with knee pain attributable to OA (n = 514). Crude and adjusted cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between baseline Self-Efficacy for Exercise (SEE), Positive Outcome Expectations for Exercise (POEE), Negative Outcome Expectations for Exercise scores, and physical activity level, at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months (measured by self-report using the Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly [PASE]), and important increases in physical activity level (from baseline to 6-month followup) were investigated using multiple linear and logistic regression. Results. Cross-sectional associations were found between SEE and PASE scores (beta = 4.14 [95% confidence interval (95% CI) 0.26, 8.03]) and POEE and PASE scores (beta = 16.71 [95% CI 1.87, 31.55]), adjusted for sociodemographic and clinical covariates. Longitudinal associations were found between baseline SEE and PASE scores at 3 months (beta = 4.95 [95% CI 1.02, 8.87]) and 6 months beta = 3.71 (0.26, 7.16), and baseline POEE and PASE at 3 months (beta = 34.55 [95% CI 20.13, 48.97]) and 6 months (beta = 25.74 [95% CI 11.99, 39.49]), adjusted for baseline PASE score and intervention arm. However, no significant associations with important increases in physical activity level were found. Conclusion. Greater exercise self-efficacy and more positive exercise outcome expectations were associated with higher current and future physical activity levels. These may be targets for interventions aimed at increasing physical activity.
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