Trial reportAnnals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine2015
The Results of the "Positive Action for Today's Health" (PATH) Trial for Increasing Walking and Physical Activity in Underserved African-American Communities.
Trial report in Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01025726 (Improving Safety and Access for Physical Activity), which is not on this map. Cited by 31 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Improving Safety and Access for Physical Activity
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 61 citations in OpenAlex.
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of the long-term effects of physical activity interventions on objectively measured outcomes.BMC public health · 2023Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Interventions Promoting Physical Activity and Reducing Sedentary Behavior in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: An Umbrella Review With Application to Saudi Arabia.Journal of epidemiology and global health · 2023Pooled it
- Social marketing interventions to promote physical activity among 60 years and older: a systematic review of the literature.BMC public health · 2020Pooled it
- Community wide interventions for increasing physical activity.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Community Walks: a cluster randomized controlled trial of a multilevel physical activity intervention for low income public housing residents.BMC public health · 2023Trial
- Results from "Developing Real Incentives and Volition for Exercise" (DRIVE): A pilot randomized controlled trial for promoting physical activity in African American women.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2022Trial
- Feasibility and acceptability of a faith-based mind-body intervention among African American adults.Translational behavioral medicine · 2020Trial
- Effects of a motivational, individual and locally anchored exercise intervention (MILE) on cardiorespiratory fitness: a community-based randomised controlled trial.BMC public health · 2019Trial
- Project SHINE: effects of a randomized family-based health promotion program on the physical activity of African American parents.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2018Trial
- Changing the housing environment to reduce obesity in public housing residents: a cluster randomized trial.BMC public health · 2018Trial
- Reach Out Churches: A Community-Based Participatory Research Pilot Trial to Assess the Feasibility of a Mobile Health Technology Intervention to Reduce Blood Pressure Among African Americans.Health promotion practice · 2018Trial
- Community-wide intervention and population-level physical activity: a 5-year cluster randomized trial.International journal of epidemiology · 2018Trial
- Multilevel Associations of Neighborhood Poverty, Crime, and Satisfaction With Blood Pressure in African-American Adults.American journal of hypertension · 2016Trial
- Neighborhood Social Predictors of Weight-related Measures in Underserved African Americans in the PATH Trial.Ethnicity & disease · 2015Trial
- Community-wide promotion of physical activity in middle-aged and older Japanese: a 3-year evaluation of a cluster randomized trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2015Trial
- Applications of social marketing for implementation science: a scoping review.Implementation science : IS · 2025Article
- Factors Associated With Physical Activity Levels Among Brazilian Military Law Enforcement Officers.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2025Article
- The Use of Social Marketing in Community-Wide Physical Activity Programs: A Scoping Review.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2024Article
- Low body mass and high-quality sleep maximize the ability of aerobic fitness to promote improved cognitive function in older African Americans.Ethnicity & health · 2022Article
- Interaction of Neighborhood and Genetic Risk on Waist Circumference in African-American Adults: A Longitudinal Study.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2021Article
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14 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundThe "Positive Action for Today's Health" (PATH) trial tested an environmental intervention to increase walking in underserved communities.
methodsThree matched communities were randomized to a police-patrolled walking plus social marketing, a police-patrolled walking-only, or a no-walking intervention. The 24-month intervention addressed safety and access for physical activity (PA) and utilized social marketing to enhance environmental supports for PA. African-Americans (N=434; 62% females; aged 51±16 years) provided accelerometry and psychosocial measures at baseline and 12, 18, and 24 months. Walking attendance and trail use were obtained over 24 months.
resultsThere were no significant differences across communities over 24 months for moderate-to-vigorous PA. Walking attendance in the social marketing community showed an increase from 40 to 400 walkers per month at 9 months and sustained ~200 walkers per month through 24 months. No change in attendance was observed in the walking-only community.
conclusionsFindings support integrating social marketing strategies to increase walking in underserved African-Americans (ClinicalTrials.gov #NCT01025726).
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