Explaining Sedentary Behavior With Planning (the Revised HAPA Model)

"Planning: Participants will fill in the planning forms that efer to replacing sedentary behavior with physical activity.~The following behavior change techniques are included in the planning intervention protocol: action planning, barrier identification, prompting self-talk, relapse prevention/coping planning. Applications of all behavior change techniques would include references to planning."

The education would include extended sedentary behavior and physical activity education, delivered face-to-face by the experimenters. The education includes: (1) the behavioral guidelines, tailored to age and health status of the participants, (2) the examples of exercises and their metabolic equivalent, and (3) the education about ways to break sedentary behavior with active breaks.