Trial reportAmerican journal of preventive medicine2016
Effect of Community Volunteering on Physical Activity: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Trial report in American journal of preventive medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00380562 (Experience Corps Trial), which is not on this map. Cited by 47 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Experience Corps Trial: Improving Health of Older Populations Through Generativity
Who cites it
47 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Barriers and facilitators to older adult participation in intergenerational physical activity program: a systematic review.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2024Pooled it
- 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
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- Obesity Prevention Interventions and Implications for Energy Balance in the United States and Mexico: A Systematic Review of the Evidence and Meta-Analysis.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2019Pooled it
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- Evaluation of a civic engagement approach to catalyze built environment change and promote healthy eating and physical activity among rural residents: a cluster (community) randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2022Trial
- A Community Choir Intervention to Promote Well-Being Among Diverse Older Adults: Results From the Community of Voices Trial.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2020Trial
- Changes in diet and physical activity resulting from the Strong Hearts, Healthy Communities randomized cardiovascular disease risk reduction multilevel intervention trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2019Trial
- Changes in Moderate Intensity Physical Activity Are Associated With Better Cognition in the Multilevel Intervention for Physical Activity in Retirement Communities (MIPARC) Study.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2019Trial
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- Associations of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme-1 and Angiotensin II Blood Levels and Cognitive Function.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2018Trial
- Hippocampal sub-regional shape and physical activity in older adults.Hippocampus · 2016Trial
- A Pilot Randomized Trial of an Intervention to Enhance the Health-Promoting Effects of Older Adults' Activity Portfolios: The Engaged4Life Program.Journal of gerontological social workTrial
- Implementing multidomain non-pharmaceutical interventions for preventing cognitive decline in community-dwelling older adults in China: An embedded mixed-methods implementation study of determinants and strategies.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- Volunteering and Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes in Black Adolescents From Low-Income Families.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Civic Engagement and Social Connectedness in Rural Communities: The Role of Sociodemographic Factors and Social Determinants of Health in Rural Areas of the United States.Social sciences · 2025Article
- Community-based promotion of physical activity in Nepal: study protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial.Trials · 2025Article
- Protocol for an intergenerational randomized controlled trial to enhance physical activity in older adults at risk for Alzheimer's disease.The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease · 2025Article
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Abstract
introductionOlder adults with a high number of chronic conditions and who live in environments that do not promote physical activity have great difficulty initiating and adhering to exercise programs. Novel lifestyle activity interventions that can effectively increase physical activity may address disparities in health in these populations. This study evaluates the effects of the Baltimore Experience Corps program, a community-based volunteer program, on walking activity in older adults.
methodsThe Baltimore Experience Corps Trial is a sex-stratified RCT that recruited participants from 2006 to 2009. Older adult participants aged ≥60 years (n=123) were from a nested objective physical activity trial within the larger Baltimore Experience Corps Trial. Participants randomized to the intervention group were placed as volunteers within the Baltimore public school system for 2 years. The primary study outcome was objectively measured total amount of walking activity measured in steps/day. Differences between intervention and control groups were measured at 12 and 24 months using linear mixed effects models. Data were analyzed in 2014.
resultsAt 24 months, women, but not men, in the intervention group showed an increased amount of walking activity, averaging 1,500.3 (95% CI=77.6, 2,922.9) greater steps/day compared with the control group. Women in the control group showed a decline of 1,191.6 (95% CI=-2243.7, -139.5) steps/day at 24 months compared to baseline.
conclusionsA community-based volunteer intervention increased walking activity among older women, who were at elevated risk for both inactivity and adverse health outcomes.
trial registrationThis study is registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov NCT00380562.
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