Adapted physical activity interventions and motivational levers: What benefits for type 2 diabetics? A systematic review

Abstract

Abstract Background and Aims Scientific research continues to advance and improve the medical management of type 2 diabetes. However, the importance of lifestyle management remains invaluable in treatment and tertiary prevention of this disease. Day‐to‐day sedentariness is the fourth most important risk factor for mortality in France. Numerous studies have demonstrated that physical activity is beneficial to people with type 2 diabetes and various recommendations have been made to encourage it. However, it is universally agreed that interventions that promote physical activity, while they may enhance its practice in the short term, do not impact on it over longer periods. It therefore seems essential to focus interventions on an individual's capacity to persist with physical activity in the long term. By looking at the literature, the aim of this review is to synthesize group and supervised physical activity interventions for people with type 2 diabetes using variables based on the following levers: motivation and self‐efficacy. Methods The PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta‐Analyses) methodology examined studies in English or French that are registered in the PubMed, PsycINFO, and SportDiscus databases and were published between 2005 and 2023, according to the following keywords: Motivation OR self‐efficacy AND physical activity AND type 2 diabetes AND intervention. Results and Conclusion Seven studies out of 1207 were included. Despite the pertinence of the concepts of motivation and self‐efficacy and their complementarity in physical activity management programs, few studies have yet proposed a combined intervention for people with type 2 diabetes.

Keywords

• interventions
• motivation
• physical activity
• self‐efficacy
• type 2 diabetes