Frank F Eves
Biographic Data
| ID | 2043717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank F Eves |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank F |
| FAMILY NAME | Eves |
| SIGNATURE | EVES F F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4921-7169 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Developing habit-based health behaviour change interventions
OBJECTIVE: Habitual behaviours are triggered automatically, with little conscious forethought. Theory suggests that making healthy behaviours habitual, and breaking the habits that underpin many ingrained unhealthy behaviours, promotes long-term behaviour change. This has prompted interest in incorporating habit formation and disruption strategies into behaviour change interventions. Yet, notable research gaps limit understanding of how to harnes…
Interrupting Pedestrians in Indonesia; Effect of Climate on Perceived Steepness and Stair Climbing Behaviour
Increased activity during daily life is one public health initiative to reduce population inactivity. Increasing temperature and humidity influence walking for transport by reducing the blood supply available to exercising muscles. This study investigated effects of temperature and humidity on a perceptual cue, estimated stair slant, that can influence behaviour, and on subsequent speed of climbing. Participants (402 males, 423 females) estimated…
Desk based prompts to replace workplace sitting with stair climbing; a pilot study of acceptability, effects on behaviour and disease risk factors
Ethics for this study was approved by Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Ethical Review Committee, University of Birmingham with ethics reference number ERN_15_0491
Home-Based Stair Climbing as an Intervention for Disease Risk in Adult Females; A Controlled Study
Cardiovascular disease and the metabolic syndrome are major contributors to health care expenditure. Increased physical activity reduces disease risk. The study compared effects of walking up and down stairs at home with continuous, gym-based stair climbing on the disease risk factors of aerobic fitness, serum lipids, body composition, fasting blood glucose, and resting cardiovascular variables. Sedentary women (31.7 ± 1.4 years) were randomly as…
Daily stair climbing is associated with decreased risk for the metabolic syndrome
The most likely explanation for the current findings is that daily stair climbing may be protective against the metabolic syndrome. This result reinforces public health recommendations for increased stair climbing with evidence from physiological outcomes
Signage Interventions for Stair Climbing at Work
Increased stair climbing reduces cardiovascular disease risk. While signage interventions for workplace stair climbing offer a low-cost tool to improve population health, inconsistent effects of intervention occur. Pedestrian movement within the built environment has major effects on stair use, independent of any health initiative. This paper used pooled data from UK and Spanish workplaces to test the effects of signage interventions when pedestr…
A novel tool to predict food intake
A multi-component stair climbing promotional campaign targeting calorific expenditure for worksites; a quasi-experimental study testing effects on behaviour, attitude and intention
Multi-component campaigns that target attitudes and intentions may substantially increase stair climbing at work
Marginally perceptible outcome feedback, motor learning and implicit processes
Evaluation of a standard provision versus an autonomy promotive exercise referral programme
The trial is registered as Current Controlled trials ISRCTN07682833
Promoting Stair Use
Message banners attached to stair risers produced a significant increase in pedestrian stair use, exceeding effects previously reported for conventional posters. Multiple instances of the same message banner, however, were as effective as banners featuring different messages. Therefore, greater visibility, rather than message variety, appears to account for the superiority of the banner format. Our findings indicate the feasibility of simple stai…
The role of working memory in motor learning and performance
Encouraging Stair Use
Increasing physical activity levels among a largely sedentary public is a health priority.1 Lifestyle exercise, such as walking or stair climbing, has been recommended because it provides substantial health benefits and fits easily into daily routines.2 Opportunities for stair climbing in workplaces, public buildings, and the home are frequently available to most population groups. Studies conducted in both the United States and the United Kingdo…
Getting More People on the Stairs
Previous research has found that poster prompts are associated with significant increases in stair use. The present study examined the use of messages on the stair risers, as an alternative to posters, to encourage stair climbing. Observers monitored shoppers' stair and escalator use over a 2-week baseline and 6-week intervention period. The prevalence of stair use increased from a baseline value of 8.1 percent to 18.3 percent when the motivating…
Applying the Transtheoretical Model to the Study of Exercise on Prescription
This study examines the application of key constructs of the transtheoretical model and an integrated perceived barrier construct to exercise behaviour. Research participants were middle-aged, sedentary, males and females ( N = 393) who were referred by their general practitioner for a three-month prescription of exercise. Partial support for the use of the transtheoretical model in a UK sample was found. The decisional balance measure, in partic…
Contribution of generalized negative affect to elevated menstrual cycle symptom reporting
We investigated women's belief that they suffered from premenstrual syndrome (PMS) by monitoring patterns of symptom reporting over a 5-week period in relation to the underlying trait of negative affect. We expected that women reporting high negative affect would be more likely to report menstrual cycle distress than those reporting low negative affect. One hundred twenty-one women rated the typical occurrence and severity of premenstrual changes…
Menstrual cycle symptom reporting in three British ethnic groups
Menstrual cycle symptom reporting in three British ethnic groups
A novel tool to predict food intake
Encouraging Stair Use
Increasing physical activity levels among a largely sedentary public is a health priority.1 Lifestyle exercise, such as walking or stair climbing, has been recommended because it provides substantial health benefits and fits easily into daily routines.2 Opportunities for stair climbing in workplaces, public buildings, and the home are frequently available to most population groups. Studies conducted in both the United States and the United Kingdo…
Applying the Transtheoretical Model to the Study of Exercise on Prescription
This study examines the application of key constructs of the transtheoretical model and an integrated perceived barrier construct to exercise behaviour. Research participants were middle-aged, sedentary, males and females ( N = 393) who were referred by their general practitioner for a three-month prescription of exercise. Partial support for the use of the transtheoretical model in a UK sample was found. The decisional balance measure, in partic…
Getting More People on the Stairs
Previous research has found that poster prompts are associated with significant increases in stair use. The present study examined the use of messages on the stair risers, as an alternative to posters, to encourage stair climbing. Observers monitored shoppers' stair and escalator use over a 2-week baseline and 6-week intervention period. The prevalence of stair use increased from a baseline value of 8.1 percent to 18.3 percent when the motivating…
Contribution of generalized negative affect to elevated menstrual cycle symptom reporting
We investigated women's belief that they suffered from premenstrual syndrome (PMS) by monitoring patterns of symptom reporting over a 5-week period in relation to the underlying trait of negative affect. We expected that women reporting high negative affect would be more likely to report menstrual cycle distress than those reporting low negative affect. One hundred twenty-one women rated the typical occurrence and severity of premenstrual changes…
Menstrual cycle symptom reporting in three British ethnic groups
Applying the Transtheoretical Model to the Study of Exercise on Prescription
This study examines the application of key constructs of the transtheoretical model and an integrated perceived barrier construct to exercise behaviour. Research participants were middle-aged, sedentary, males and females ( N = 393) who were referred by their general practitioner for a three-month prescription of exercise. Partial support for the use of the transtheoretical model in a UK sample was found. The decisional balance measure, in partic…
Encouraging Stair Use
Increasing physical activity levels among a largely sedentary public is a health priority.1 Lifestyle exercise, such as walking or stair climbing, has been recommended because it provides substantial health benefits and fits easily into daily routines.2 Opportunities for stair climbing in workplaces, public buildings, and the home are frequently available to most population groups. Studies conducted in both the United States and the United Kingdo…
Getting More People on the Stairs
Previous research has found that poster prompts are associated with significant increases in stair use. The present study examined the use of messages on the stair risers, as an alternative to posters, to encourage stair climbing. Observers monitored shoppers' stair and escalator use over a 2-week baseline and 6-week intervention period. The prevalence of stair use increased from a baseline value of 8.1 percent to 18.3 percent when the motivating…
The role of working memory in motor learning and performance
Promoting Stair Use
Message banners attached to stair risers produced a significant increase in pedestrian stair use, exceeding effects previously reported for conventional posters. Multiple instances of the same message banner, however, were as effective as banners featuring different messages. Therefore, greater visibility, rather than message variety, appears to account for the superiority of the banner format. Our findings indicate the feasibility of simple stai…
Marginally perceptible outcome feedback, motor learning and implicit processes
Evaluation of a standard provision versus an autonomy promotive exercise referral programme
The trial is registered as Current Controlled trials ISRCTN07682833
A multi-component stair climbing promotional campaign targeting calorific expenditure for worksites; a quasi-experimental study testing effects on behaviour, attitude and intention
Multi-component campaigns that target attitudes and intentions may substantially increase stair climbing at work
A novel tool to predict food intake
Signage Interventions for Stair Climbing at Work
Increased stair climbing reduces cardiovascular disease risk. While signage interventions for workplace stair climbing offer a low-cost tool to improve population health, inconsistent effects of intervention occur. Pedestrian movement within the built environment has major effects on stair use, independent of any health initiative. This paper used pooled data from UK and Spanish workplaces to test the effects of signage interventions when pedestr…
Home-Based Stair Climbing as an Intervention for Disease Risk in Adult Females; A Controlled Study
Cardiovascular disease and the metabolic syndrome are major contributors to health care expenditure. Increased physical activity reduces disease risk. The study compared effects of walking up and down stairs at home with continuous, gym-based stair climbing on the disease risk factors of aerobic fitness, serum lipids, body composition, fasting blood glucose, and resting cardiovascular variables. Sedentary women (31.7 ± 1.4 years) were randomly as…
Daily stair climbing is associated with decreased risk for the metabolic syndrome
The most likely explanation for the current findings is that daily stair climbing may be protective against the metabolic syndrome. This result reinforces public health recommendations for increased stair climbing with evidence from physiological outcomes
Interrupting Pedestrians in Indonesia; Effect of Climate on Perceived Steepness and Stair Climbing Behaviour
Increased activity during daily life is one public health initiative to reduce population inactivity. Increasing temperature and humidity influence walking for transport by reducing the blood supply available to exercising muscles. This study investigated effects of temperature and humidity on a perceptual cue, estimated stair slant, that can influence behaviour, and on subsequent speed of climbing. Participants (402 males, 423 females) estimated…
Desk based prompts to replace workplace sitting with stair climbing; a pilot study of acceptability, effects on behaviour and disease risk factors
Ethics for this study was approved by Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Ethical Review Committee, University of Birmingham with ethics reference number ERN_15_0491
Developing habit-based health behaviour change interventions
OBJECTIVE: Habitual behaviours are triggered automatically, with little conscious forethought. Theory suggests that making healthy behaviours habitual, and breaking the habits that underpin many ingrained unhealthy behaviours, promotes long-term behaviour change. This has prompted interest in incorporating habit formation and disruption strategies into behaviour change interventions. Yet, notable research gaps limit understanding of how to harnes…
Medicine (15 works) · Physical therapy (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Stair climbing (8 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Physical Activity and Health (7 works) · Climbing (6 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Internal Medicine (6 works)