Foley Bridget C, Vassallo Amy Jo, Reece Lindsey J
SPRINTER group, Prevention Research Collaboration, Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
BMC Sports Sci Med Rehabil. 2019 Jul 26;11:11. doi: 10.1186/s13102-019-0123-y. eCollection 2019.
Organized, leisure time physical activities are an important part of a population approach to increase total physical activity participation. Dancing is a type of organized leisure time activity which may be utilized to enhance public health. Individuals commonly participate in dance during childhood however few maintain participation into adulthood, dropping out of the activity while young. This study aimed to investigate who participates in an emerging dance activity, "No Lights, No Lycra", which encourages people to participate in free-form dancing in the dark for 60 min designed as an inclusive, nonjudgmental, drug and alcohol-free community setting. This version of dance provides a modified opportunity for organized leisure time physical activity. No Lights, No Lycra has recorded increases in attendance at their events over the past decade. This popularity warrants an investigation into participant's demographic characteristics, their total physical activity, as well as their motivations for dancing in the dark and any impacts on health and wellbeing.
This study invited No Lights, No Lycra participants from across Australia to complete a cross-sectional, self-report online survey. Participants were recruited while attending an organized session or through social media channels. The descriptive data provided through survey responses were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics.
Participants ( = 1190, 92% Female) reported their main reason for dancing in the dark was to have fun. Most participants were insufficiently active, with 88% of responders not meeting physical activity guidelines. The No Lights, No Lycra dance sessions contributed 23% of their total annual participation in organized physical activities.
No Lights, No Lycra attracts adult women, rather than the typical dance participants - children; These women did not meet physical activity guidelines and typically had low levels of engagement in organized physical activity. Participation in No Lights, No Lycra, shows promise to increase women's physical activity. This study into No Lights, No Lycra demonstrates how dance can be modified to engage a relatively inactive portion of the community. More should be done to understand how modifications to organized sport and physical activities can motivate and maintain engagement of typically inactive people.
有组织的休闲体育活动是增加总体体育活动参与度的全民方法的重要组成部分。舞蹈是一种有组织的休闲活动，可用于促进公众健康。人们通常在童年时期参与舞蹈活动，但很少有人能持续到成年，往往在年轻时就不再参与此项活动。本研究旨在调查参与一项新兴舞蹈活动“无灯光，无莱卡”的人群，该活动鼓励人们在黑暗中自由舞蹈60分钟，活动营造了一个包容、无评判、无毒品和酒精的社区环境。这种舞蹈形式为有组织的休闲体育活动提供了一种改良的机会。在过去十年里，“无灯光，无莱卡”活动的参与人数持续增加。这种受欢迎程度促使我们对参与者的人口统计学特征、总体体育活动情况、他们在黑暗中跳舞的动机以及对健康和幸福的任何影响进行调查。
本研究邀请了来自澳大利亚各地的“无灯光，无莱卡”参与者完成一项横断面的在线自我报告调查。参与者是在参加有组织的活动时或通过社交媒体渠道招募的。通过调查回复提供的描述性数据使用IBM SPSS Statistics进行分析。
参与者（n = 1190，92%为女性）报告他们在黑暗中跳舞的主要原因是为了好玩。大多数参与者活动量不足，88%的受访者未达到体育活动指南的要求。“无灯光，无莱卡”舞蹈活动占他们每年有组织体育活动总参与量的23%。
“无灯光，无莱卡”吸引的是成年女性，而非典型的舞蹈参与者——儿童；这些女性未达到体育活动指南的要求，且通常参与有组织体育活动的程度较低。参与“无灯光，无莱卡”活动有望增加女性的体育活动量。这项对“无灯光，无莱卡”的研究表明，舞蹈可以如何进行改良以吸引社区中相对不活跃的一部分人。应该做更多的工作来了解对有组织的运动和体育活动进行改良如何能够激励并维持通常不活跃人群的参与度。
