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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access published online on May 12, 2009
The European Journal of Public Health, doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckp059
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

Short Report

Promoting stair climbing in Barcelona: similarities and differences with interventions in English-speaking populations

Anna Puig-Ribera1 and Frank F. Eves2

1 Ciències de l'Activitat Física i l'Esport, Universitat de Vic, Catalonia, Spain
2 School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

Correspondence: Anna Puig Ribera, Universitat de Vic, Departament de Ciències i Ciències Socials. Carrer de la Sagrada Família, 7, 08500, Vic, (Barcelona), Catalonia, Spain, tel: +34 93 88612 22, fax: +34 93 889 10 63, e-mail: annam.puig{at}uvic.cat

Received December 10, 2008 , accepted April 9, 2009

This study evaluated the ability of three different messages to encourage stair climbing on the Barcelona underground. Two weeks of baseline were followed by three banner intervention periods with three different messages, each for a 2 week period. Follow-up data was gathered two weeks after removing the messages. Stair climbing increased overall [odds ratio (OR) = 1.45; 95% confidence intervals (CIs) = 1.25–1.68], with no statistical differences between the messages. During follow-up, stair climbing remained elevated (OR = 1.22; 95% CIs = 1.01–1.48). These preliminary data suggest stair climbing interventions, effective in the UK, may prove successful in Catalonia and Spain. Baseline differences, however, outline the magnitude of the task.

Keywords: Catalonia, health promotion, physical activity, Spain, stair climbing.


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