Trial reportContemporary clinical trials2010
An overview of the "Positive Action for Today's Health" (PATH) trial for increasing walking in low income, ethnic minority communities.
Trial report in Contemporary clinical trials, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 26 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Prospective, Randomized Two Group Study to Evaluate the Feasibility and Initial Efficacy of a Community-engaged Screening, Identification, and F&V Intervention to Improve F&V Intake and CKD Outcomes in 140 AA Adults
Identifying a Cardiorenal Protective Diet in a Lower-income African American Population With Chronic Kidney Disease at Risk for Cardiovascular Disease.
Who cites it
26 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Walking for hypertension.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Targeted mass media interventions promoting healthy behaviours to reduce risk of non-communicable diseases in adult, ethnic minorities.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Community wide interventions for increasing physical activity.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Face-to-face versus remote and web 2.0 interventions for promoting physical activity.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- Face-to-face interventions for promoting physical activity.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- "What Can I Eat?" Healthy Choices for American Indian and Alaska Native Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: Outcomes From a Randomized Waitlist-Controlled Trial of a Diabetes Nutrition Education Program.Journal of nutrition education and behavior · 2025Trial
- Neighborhood Social Predictors of Weight-related Measures in Underserved African Americans in the PATH Trial.Ethnicity & disease · 2015Trial
- The Results of the "Positive Action for Today's Health" (PATH) Trial for Increasing Walking and Physical Activity in Underserved African-American Communities.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2015Trial
- Physical activity as a mediator linking neighborhood environmental supports and obesity in African Americans in the path trial.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2014Trial
- Associations among environmental supports, physical activity, and blood pressure in African-American adults in the PATH trial.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2013Trial
- Formative process evaluation for implementing a social marketing intervention to increase walking among African Americans in the Positive Action for Today's Health trial.American journal of public health · 2012Trial
- Evaluating physical activity interventions for socioeconomically disadvantaged adults through the RE-AIM framework: A systematic review of experimental and non-/quasi-experimental trials.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Review
- A population health dietary intervention for African American adults with chronic kidney disease: The Fruit and Veggies for Kidney Health randomized study.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2020Article
- Longitudinal relationships between self-concept for physical activity and neighborhood social life as predictors of physical activity among older African American adults.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2017Article
- Bayesian latent structure modeling of walking behavior in a physical activity intervention.Statistical methods in medical research · 2016Article
- Social support buffering of the relation between low income and elevated blood pressure in at-risk African-American adults.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2015Article
- Sociodemographic moderators of relations of neighborhood safety to physical activity.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2014Observational
- Positive Action for Today's Health (PATH): Sex differences in walking and perceptions of the physical and social environment.Environment and behavior · 2014Article
- Remote and web 2.0 interventions for promoting physical activity.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Article
- Updating the FORECAST formative evaluation approach and some implications for ameliorating theory failure, implementation failure, and evaluation failure.Evaluation and program planning · 2013Article
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Abstract
backgroundEthnic minorities and lower-income adults have among the highest rates of obesity and lowest levels of regular physical activity (PA). The Positive Action for Today's Health (PATH) trial compares three communities that are randomly assigned to different levels of an environmental intervention to improve safety and access for walking in low income communities. DESIGN AND
settingThree communities matched on census tract information (crime, PA, ethnic minorities, and income) were randomized to receive either: an intervention that combines a police-patrolled-walking program with social marketing strategies to promote PA, a police-patrolled-walking only intervention, or no-walking intervention (general health education only). Measures include PA (7-day accelerometer estimates), body composition, blood pressure, psychosocial measures, and perceptions of safety and access for PA at baseline, 6, 12, 18, and 24 months.
interventionThe police-patrolled walking plus social marketing intervention targets increasing safety (training community leaders as walking captains, hiring off-duty police officers to patrol the walking trail, and containing stray dogs), increasing access for PA (marking a walking route), and utilizes a social marketing campaign that targets psychosocial and environmental mediators for increasing PA. MAIN HYPOTHESES/OUTCOMES: It is hypothesized that the police-patrolled walking plus social marketing intervention will result in greater increases in moderate-to-vigorous PA as compared to the police-patrolled-walking only or the general health intervention after 12 months and that this effect will be maintained at 18 and 24 months.
conclusionsImplications of this community-based trial are discussed.
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