Browsing Arts Education & Physical Education (Peer-reviewed publications) by Author "Murtagh, Elaine"
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Preliminary findings of Active Classrooms: An intervention to increase physical activity levels of primary school children during class time (Pre-published version)
Martin, Rosemarie; Murtagh, Elaine (Elsevier, 2015)This study evaluates the effects of a behaviour change intervention, which encourages the integration of PA into the teaching of academic lessons, on PA levels of students. The main outcome is mean minutes of moderate-to-vigorous ... -
Prevalence and correlates of physical inactivity in community-dwelling older adults in Ireland
Murtagh, Elaine; Murphy, Marie H.; Murphy, Niamh M.; Woods, Catherine; Nevill, Alan M.; Lane, Aoife (Public Library of Science, 2015)The public health challenges associated with rapid population ageing are likely to be exacerbated by poor physical activity levels. The purpose of this study was to identify correlates of physical inactivity in a ... -
Psychosocial factors related to children’s active school travel: A comparison of two European regions
Murtagh, Elaine; McMinn, David; Row, David A.; Murtagh, Shemane; Nelson, Norah M.; Čuk, Ivan; Atiković, Almir; Peček, Mojca; Breslin, Gavin; Murphy, Marie H. (Berkeley Electronic Press, 2014)Inequalities in health behaviors exist between regions of Europe, along a North West/South East axis. This study investigated whether prevalence of walking to school and associated psychosocial antecedents differed between ... -
School-based interventions to reduce sedentary behaviour in children: A systematic review
Murtagh, Elaine; Hegarty, Lynda M.; Mair, Jacqueline L.; Kirby, Karen; Murphy, Marie H. (AIMS Press, 2016)Prolonged, uninterrupted periods of sedentary time may be associated with increased risk of Type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality even if the minimum recommended levels of daily physical activity ... -
Self-rated walking pace and all-cause, cardiovascular disease, and cancer mortality: Individual participant pooled analysis of 50,225 walkers from 11 population British cohorts (Pre-published version)
Murtagh, Elaine; Stamatakis, Emmanuel; Kelly, Paul; Strain, Tessa; Ding, Ding; Murphy, Marie H. (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2018)Background/Objectives: Walking pace is associated with risk of premature mortality. However, whether this relationship is independent of total volume of physical activity and highest physical activity intensity reached ... -
Session 1: Public health nutrition physical activity prescription for public health
Murtagh, Elaine; Murphy, Marie H.; McNeilly, Andrea M. (Cambridge University Press, 2010)The increased prevalence of CVD deaths in the past 60 years is a result in considerable part of the influence of environmental and lifestyle changes, including decreased daily energy expenditure through physical exertion. ... -
Speed and exercise intensity of recreational walkers
Murtagh, Elaine; Boreham, Colin; Murphy, Marie H. (American Health Foundation and Elsevier Science (USA), 2002)Brisk walking has been identified as an activity suited to meet American College of Sport Medicine/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations for moderate intensity exercise (55– 69% HRmax, 40–59% VO2R). ... -
Stay active: The physical activity, ageing and health study
Murtagh, Elaine; Murphy, Marie H.; Murphy, Niamh M.; Woods, Catherine; Lane, Aoife (Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland (CARDI), 2014) -
Teachers’ and students’ perspectives of participating in the ‘Active Classrooms’ movement integration programme (Pre-published version)
Martin, Rosemarie; Murtagh, Elaine (Elsevier, 2017)This paper evaluates perceptions of 5 teachers and 129 students of participating in an 8-week primary school movement integration intervention. Following training and provision of resources, teachers were asked to teach 2 ... -
Walking and cardiovascular risk: A meta-analysis of randomised, controlled trials 2361 board #93 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM (Pre-published version)
Murtagh, Elaine; Murphy, Marie H.; Nevill, Alan M.; Boreham, Colin (American College of Sports Medicine, 2006)Walking is the most popular physical activity among the EU population, and has become an important cornerstone in many physical activity promotion campaigns. Despite this, interventions that have considered the effects of ... -
Walking to improve cardiovascular health: A meta-analysis of randomised control trials (Pre-published version)
Murtagh, Elaine; Nichols, Linda; Mohammed, Mohammed A.; Holder, Roger L.; Nevill, Alan M.; Murphy, Marie H. (Elsevier, 2014) -
Walking: The first steps in cardiovascular disease prevention
Murtagh, Elaine; Murphy, Marie H.; Boone-Heinonen, Janne (Wolters Kluwer Health Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2010)Purpose of review Health professionals are presented with the challenge of prescribing physical activity that is likely to be sustained by the sedentary majority. Walking is eminently suited to physical activity ... -
Worldwide trends in children’s and adolescents’ body mass index, underweight, overweight and obesity, in comparison with adults, from 1975 to 2016: A pooled analysis of 2,416 population-based measurement studies with 128.9 million participants (Pre-published version)
Murtagh, Elaine; NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) (Elsevier, 2017)Background: Being underweight as well as overweight and obese in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body ...