The Routledge Handbook of Sedentary Behaviour assess the field and provides in-depth update on sedentary behaviour research. Sedentary behaviour is defined as any waking behaviour where the energy expenditure is low and the predominant posture is sitting, reclining or lying. Evidence is rapidly accumulating that sedentary behaviour is associated with poor health outcomes. Over the past 20 years, time spent sitting has increased dramatically as people spend more time sitting for work, commuting and leisure. Excessive sedentary behaviour has been associated with an increased risk of numerous non-communicable diseases.The field of sedentary behaviour research is rapidly developing. This book will provide a source of information on the epidemiological trends in sedentary behaviour across the lifecourse. Innovations in quantifying sedentary behaviour have led to a number of developments in tools used to measure sedentary behaviour, and this book will review their relative merits. Our understanding of the range of physical and mental health effects continues to expand and these will be discussed, including likely causal mechanisms. Following this, the effectiveness of various interventions within different populations will be presented. Finally, the text will summarise these advances in knowledge and give direction to new areas for future research. The text offers students, researchers and academics with an up-to-date summary of the sedentary behaviour evidence base and will serve as a catalyst for future research through summaries of future research areas that remain addressed.
This book provides a source of information on the epidemiological trends in sedentary behaviour across the lifecourse. Innovations in quantifying sedentary behaviour have led to a number of developments in tools used to measure sedentary behaviour, and this book reviews their relative merits.
Section 1: Introduction.
1. Introduction to sedentary behaviour. Section
2: Sedentary behaviour epidemiology.
2. Defining sedentary behaviour and
current sedentary behaviour guidelines.
3. Global levels and patterns of
sedentary behaviour in children, adolescents, adults, and older adults.
4.
Correlates of sedentary behaviour across the lifespan.
5. Global levels and
correlates of sedentary behaviour in clinical populations.
6. Synopsis of
Section 2: Sedentary behaviour epidemiology. Section 3: Measuring sedentary
behaviour.
7. An overview of subjective sedentary behaviour measures.
8. An
overview of objective sedentary behaviour measures.
9. Sedentary behaviour: A
cluster of unhealthy behaviours.
10. Synopsis of Section 3: Sedentary
behaviour measurement summary. Section 4: Sedentary behaviour and health
outcomes.
11. Physical inactivity, sedentary behaviour, and non-communicable
disease.
12. Sedentary behaviour and physical non-communicable disease and
risk factors in older adults and special populations.
13. Sedentary behaviour
and mental health in adolescents.
14. The relationship between sedentary
behaviour with mental health complications and psychosocial outcomes in
adults.
15. The relationship between sedentary behaviour and mental health
complications and psychosocial outcomes in older adults and special
populations.
16. Sedentary behaviour and cancer.
17. Sedentary behaviour and
pain.
18. Sedentary behaviour and obesity.
19. Mechanisms linking sedentary
behaviour to health outcomes.
20. Synopsis of Section 4: Sedentary behaviour
and health outcomes. Section 5: Sedentary behaviour interventions.
21. Use of
psychological theory in sedentary behaviour interventions.
22. Sedentary
behaviour interventions in children.
23. Sedentary behaviour interventions in
adolescents.
24. Sedentary behaviour interventions in adults.
25. Sedentary
behaviour interventions in older adults.
26. Sedentary behaviour
interventions in special populations.
27. Synopsis of Section 5: Sedentary
behaviour interventions. Section 6: Conclusion.
28. Conclusion.
Lee Smith is an epidemiologist in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the School of Psychology and Sport Science, Anglia Ruskin University, UK, with expertise in physical activity and sedentary behaviour. Lee researches ways in which we can increase levels of physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour across the lifespan and within special populations.
Mark A. Tully is Research Director of the School of Medicine and Professor of Public Health at Ulster University, UK. Prof Tullys research focuses on addressing population levels of physical inactivity and sedentary behaviour, which are major causes of poor physical and mental wellbeing. His research includes interventions targeting older adults and socioeconomically disadvantaged communities. In addition, he is interested in the effects of changes in the built environment on behaviours.
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