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8.6.4 Attitudes Towards Exercise
The local 2007 Health and Lifestyle Survey and the Social Capital Surveys asked survey
responders about their perceived impact on health of undertaking more exercise. The
information is presented in section 8.3 on page 244 from the Social Capital Survey
2009, with additional information examining differences among the genders, age groups,
Localities and deprivation quintiles available in the Social Capital Survey 2009 report at
www.hullpublichealth.org.
Further information on factors influencing the prevalence of never exercising and
exercising to national guideline levels is given the 2007 Health and Lifestyle Survey
Obesity and Exercise report. It was found that people with fewer qualifications and with
worse physical and mental health were less likely to fulfil the national exercise
guidelines, and people living in more deprived areas, on lower incomes, with lower
levels of qualifications and poorer physical and mental health were more likely to never
exercise. The Hull Atlas, Obesity and Exercise report as well as the survey reports
(Health and Lifestyle Survey 2007 and Prevalence Survey 2009) are all available at
www.hullpublichealth.org.
Attitudes to exercise were collected as part of Reflector Groups following the 2007
Health and Lifestyle Survey (see section 13.2.2.2 on page 795) and the 2008-09 Young
Person Health and Lifestyle Survey (see section 13.2.2.3 on page 796). The full
reports from both of these Reflector Groups as well as the full survey reports are
available at www.hullpublichealth.org. Information and attitudes to exercise were also
collected in the focus groups conducted as part of the Attitudes to Health project
conducted during 2007 (see section 13.2.2.1 on page 794).
8.6.5 Exercise in Relation to Deprivation
The relationship between exercise levels and local deprivation quintile is illustrated in
Figure 117 using information from the local 2009 Prevalence Survey. Similar
percentages of survey responders across the deprivation quintiles fulfil the national
exercise guidelines. This finding differs from the 2007 Health and Lifestyle Survey
which found (as noted in section 8.6.4 on page 316), that the percentages exercising to
national exercise guideline levels decreased with increased deprivation. In the 2009
Prevalence Survey (Figure 117), of those who do not fulfil the national exercise
guidelines, those people living in the least deprived areas tend to exercise to higher
levels than those in the most deprived areas. For instance, 36% of people in the least
deprived areas exercise for at least 30 minutes to moderate or vigorous levels but less
than five times a week compared to only 18% in the most deprived areas, and 6.1% in
the least deprived areas never exercise compared to 8.8% in the most deprived areas.
The trend is statistically significant ( 2 test for trend, 22.6, p