- Title
- Participant characteristics of users of holistic movement practices in Australia
- Creator
- Vergeer, Ineke; Bennie, Jason; Charity, Melanie; van Uffelen, Jannique; Harvey, Jack; Biddle, Stuart; Eime, Rochelle
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/164688
- Identifier
- vital:13119
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ctcp.2018.02.011
- Identifier
- ISBN:1744-3881
- Abstract
- Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare the characteristics of users of holistic movement practices in Australia to people who were physically active but not using holistic movement practices. A second aim was to compare characteristics of users of specific holistic movement practices (yoga/Pilates and t'ai chi/qigong). Design: We performed a secondary data analysis on pooled data of a nationally-representative physical activity survey conducted yearly 2001–2010 (n = 195,926). Setting: Australia-wide Exercise, Recreation, and Sport Survey (ERASS). Main outcome measures: A range of socio-demographic and participation characteristics were documented and compared between users and non-users of holistic movement practices and between yoga/Pilates and t'ai chi/qigong users, employing descriptive statistics, chi square, and multiple logistic regression analyses. Results: Users of holistic movement practices (n = 6826) were significantly more likely than non-users to be female, older, have fewer children at home, and have higher levels of education, socio-economic background, and physical activity involvement (p < 0.001). Yoga/Pilates (n = 5733) and t'ai chi/qigong (n = 947) users were also found to differ on a number of characteristics, including age, sex, socioeconomic background, and marital status. Conclusion: As a group, Australian users of holistic movement practices differ on a range of characteristics from those Australians active in other types of physical activities. However, differences between yoga/Pilates and t'ai chi/qigong users suggest these practices attract somewhat different sub-populations. To what extent these differences are due to characteristics inherent to the practices themselves or to differences in delivery-related parameters needs to be examined in future research.
- Publisher
- Churchill Livingstone
- Relation
- Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice Vol. 31, no. (2018), p. 181-187
- Rights
- Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Ltd
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1104 Complementary and Alternative Medicine; 1110 Nursing; Holistic; Mind-body; Participation correlates; Participation determinants; Pilates; Qigong; Tai chi; Yoga
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