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Participation of People Living with Disabilities in Physical Activity: a Global Perspective Series Physical Activity 2 Participation of people living with disabilities in physical activity: a global perspective Kathleen A Martin Ginis, Hidde P van der Ploeg, Charlie Foster, Byron Lai, Christopher B McBride, Kwok Ng, Michael Pratt, Celina H Shirazipour, Brett Smith, Priscilla M Vásquez, Gregory W Heath Approximately 1·5 billion people worldwide live with a physical, mental, sensory, or intellectual disability, about Published Online 80% of which are in low-income and middle-income countries. This Series paper provides a global overview of the July 21, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/ prevalence, benefits, and promotion policies for physical activity for people living with disabilities (PLWD). PLWD are S0140-6736(21)01164-8 16–62% less likely to meet physical activity guidelines and are at higher risk of serious health problems related to See Online/Editorial inactivity than people without disabilities. Meta-analyses have shown that physical activity has beneficial effects on https://doi.org/10.1016/ cardiovascular fitness (average standardised mean difference [SMD] 0·69 [95% CI 0·31–1·01]), musculoskeletal S0140-6736(21)01652-4 fitness (0·59 [0·31–0·87]), cardiometabolic risk factors (0·39 [0·04–0·75]), and brain and mental health outcomes See Online/Comment (0·47 [0·21–0·73]). These meta-analyses also show that health benefits can be achieved even with less than 150 min https://doi.org/10.1016/ of physical activity per week, and suggest that some physical activity is better than none. Meta-analyses of interventions S0140-6736(21)01600-7 and https://doi.org/10.1016/ to increase physical activity for PLWD have reported effect sizes ranging from SMD 0·29 (95% CI 0·17–0·41, k=10) to S0140-6736(21)01599-3 1·00 (0·46–1·53, k=10). There is increasing awareness among policy makers of the needs of PLWD for full See Online/Perspectives participation in physical activity. Physical activity action plans worldwide must be adequately resourced, monitored, https://doi.org/10.1016/ and enforced to truly advance the fundamental rights of PLWD to fully participate in physical activity. S0140-6736(21)01417-3 This is the second in a Series of Introduction year worldwide.10 PLWD are at an even greater risk of three papers about physical activity People living with disabilities (PLWD) have poorer health inactivity-related health consequences than the general than the general population.1 PLWD are at a greater risk population; yet the study of physical activity and health in Department of Medicine and Centre for Chronic Disease of injury and of developing non-communicable chronic PLWD has been marginalised. Between 1999 and 2019, Prevention and Management diseases and age-related health conditions at earlier ages. less than 5% of all articles published in the five highest- and International These health inequities are attributable to various factors, impact medical journals focused on PLWD, and less Collaboration on Repair Discoveries, Faculty of including barriers to accessing health care, higher rates of than 7% of these addressed physical activity or health Medicine, School of Health and health-compromising behaviours, and a lower likelihood (appendix p 1). As cogently argued in a Lancet Physical Exercise Sciences, Faculty of of receiving disease prevention and health promotion Activity Series editorial,11 physical activity for PLWD is Health and Social services compared with people without disabilities.1 As an issue that demands better evidence, surveillance, Development, and Reichwald Health Sciences Centre, highlighted in The Lancet, health-care services are failing practice, respect, and value. University of British Columbia, 2 the 1·5 billion PLWD worldwide. To begin addressing these inequities, clinicians, Kelowna, BC, Canada Although PLWD remain underserved, the societal scientists, exercise professionals, educators, health pro- (Prof K A Martin Ginis PhD); response to disability has shifted substantially over the moters, policy advisors, and policy makers must under- Department of Public and Occupational Health and past 50 years. Whereas disability was traditionally stand the current situation and the many benefits of Amsterdam Public Health 3,4 medicalised as a condition to be treated, disability is physical activity for PLWD. Drawing on three meta- Research Institute, Amsterdam now recognised as a part of the continuum of the human reviews produced specifically for the present Series UMC Vrije Universiteit condition1 that can be generative, creative, affirmative, paper, we provide a narrative overview of the current Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 5 Netherlands and enjoyed. New ideas on disability are challenging knowledge regarding physical activity for PLWD, (H P van der Ploeg PhD); Sydney long-standing assumptions about the meaning of being identify knowledge and action gaps, and formulate School of Public Health, human by questioning humanistic values of autonomy, recommendations to bridge gaps with the general University of Sydney, Sydney, rationality, and independence.5 The UN aspires to population. Specific objectives are to provide an NSW, Australia (H P van der Ploeg); Centre for protect the rights and freedoms of PLWD through the overview of the epidemiology of physical activity for Exercise, Nutrition and Health Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities6 PLWD worldwide, regarding prevalence and health Sciences, School for Policy and includes PLWD in its Sustainable Development benefits; to review factors related to physical activity Studies, University of Bristol, Goals (SDGs), especially in SDG 3: to “ensure healthy participation and interventions to increase physical Bristol, UK (Prof C Foster PhD); Division of Pediatric 7 lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”. Together, activity for PLWD; and to discuss international physical Rehabilitation Medicine, these responses are beginning to influence thought, activity policy actions and recommendations for PLWD. School of Medicine, University research, and action regarding physical activity for of Alabama at Birmingham, PLWD. The epidemiology of physical activity in PLWD Birmingham, AL, USA (B Lai PhD); Spinal Cord Injury 8,9 In the previous Lancet Physical Activity Series, Prevalence of physical activity in PLWD British Columbia, Vancouver, physical inactivity was associated with 5·3 million deaths There are no comprehensive global estimates of physical BC, Canada (C B McBride PhD); and health-care systems costs of US$53·8 billion per activity in PLWD. Global physical activity surveillance School of Educational Sciences www.thelancet.com Published online July 21, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01164-8 1 Series Key messages Search strategy and selection criteria • Worldwide, an estimated 1·5 billion people live with some form of disability We searched PubMed, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied (ie, long-term physical, mental, intellectual, or sensory impairments which, Health Literature, and Scopus for articles published from in interaction with various barriers, can hinder their full and effective participation in inception to Nov 15, 2019. Additional external searches society on an equal basis with others) included articles retrieved from Google Scholar, reference lists • People living with disabilities (PLWD) are 16–62% less likely to meet physical activity of systematic reviews published in 2010–19, and guidelines than people without disabilities, and are at even greater risk of serious consultations with key experts in the field. Electronic health problems associated with inactivity than the general population databases were searched with search terms: “Down • PLWD can have substantial health benefits from physical activity participation; syndrome”, “Parkinson’s disease”, “spinal cord injury”, WHO recently published physical activity guidelines for PLWD, stating that meaningful “intellectual disability”, “spinal dysraphism”, “sensation benefits can be achieved from physical activity even below the 150 min per week disorders”, “spina bifida”, “cerebral palsy”, “people with recommendation hearing impairments”, “traumatic brain injury”, “multiple • Disability sport continues to grow and might play a role in promoting empowerment, sclerosis”, “stroke”, “muscular dystrophy”, “Huntington’s social inclusion, and social participation of PLWD worldwide disease”, “disabled children”, “children with disabilities”, • Theory-based interventions are needed to target barriers at all levels of a social– “developmental disabilities”, “people with disabilities”, ecological model to increase both the quantity and quality of physical activity “Down syndrome”, “exercise”, “physical activity”, “sport”, participation “meta-analysis”, and publications were selected according to • International physical activity policies and national physical activity guidelines are type of review (meta-analysis or systematic review). starting to mention PLWD, but policy makers must provide explicit plans on how to Only articles published in English were included. Reviews ensure and uphold the rights of PLWD to full and effective participation in physical were excluded if they were not peer-reviewed or included activity; targeted, evidence-based physical activity guidelines and co-produced exercise interventions that were delivered as a means of resources are needed rehabilitation therapy (eg, bodyweight support treadmill • The quantity and quality of research on physical activity in PLWD lags far behind training or functional electrical stimulation). Specific search physical
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