Physical Activity, Exercise, and Sport in People with Disabilities: Strategies for Health Promotion
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 1711
Special Issue Editors
2. Research Center in Sport Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Development, 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal
Interests: adapted physical activity; exercise; human behavior; motivation
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2. Research Center in Sport Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Development, 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal
Interests: motivation; sports psychology; confirmatory factor analyses
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce this Special Issue, entitled ‘Physical Activity, Exercise, and Sport in People with Disabilities: Strategies for Health Promotion’.
Those with disabilities are predominantly sedentary and have relatively low rates of physical activity. In addition to a lack of physical fitness and direct effects on the activities of daily living, this increases the risk of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, cancer, depression, and anxiety, and affects individuals’ quality of life. These sedentary and active lifestyles are often associated with barriers to practice that prevent people with disabilities from engaging in any kind of physical activity, exercise, or sport in the same way that people without disabilities engage in them. Among these barriers we can find the following: a lack of adapted programs and a lack of motivation, among others.
Considering that regular physical activity, exercise and/or sport provides numerous benefits for physical, mental, and social development, thus promoting the quality of life of individuals with disabilities, it is important to develop strategies and tools that mitigate/decrease these current barriers to practice.
This Special Issue aims to compile strategies, tools and methodologies that will help professionals/institutions/organizations promote the regular practice of physical activity, exercise and sport in people with disabilities, thus promoting their quality of life.
I/We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Raul Antunes
Dr. Diogo Monteiro
Guest Editors
Dr. Miguel Jacinto
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- adapted physical activity
- disabilities
- exercise
- human behavior
- motivation
- adapted sports