ACT Physical Activity & Facilities Project

Wiki created to develop the research project idea.

Aims
The project goes directly to the aims of the ACT Health Promotion Grants Program:
 * Supporting projects that promote and facilitate healthy lifestyles and create policies and environments that enable people to enjoy healthier living.
 * Encouraging partnerships that strengthen the capacity of individuals and communities to make healthy choices.

Specifically the project aims to:

Two main parts

 * 1) high school based adolescence survey about exercise
 * 2) creating an online Canberra physical activity facility resource

Physical Activity Survey
Information in the survey collected online in the following areas.


 * Background information - age, address, school, other factors limiting exercise (work, socioeconomic?)
 * Physical Activity levels
 * Physical Activity type - school, recreational, communting, sport, other incidental
 * focus on adolescent activities - e.g. sport, cycling, walking, running, skateboarding, climbing, other alternative sports
 * Physical Activity whereabouts if possible
 * awareness of facilities, physical activity opportunities and sporting/recreational organisations
 * Attitudes - factors affecting physical activity (usual), perceived transfer across to other recreational activities, perceived distance travelled, or would travel.

Canberra Facilities Resource

 * Map physical activity facilities on to google map. Include: green spaces, playing fields, courts, bike paths, gyms, etc. Use Google map maker (Youtube demo video).
 * cross check survey results (home address/school) with facility location(s) - distance from...
 * UCNISS house it through a Google iframe. Marry with the ACT sport and recreation directory project

Outcomes

 * 1) Evaluate the impact of facilities (taking away, adding)
 * 2) levaluate the potential cross over to other activities (worthiness of community supporting niche activities)
 * 3) evaluate the impact of creating the resource on behaviour