ArticleHealth & place2016
Walking groups in socioeconomically deprived communities: A qualitative study using photo elicitation.
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- Enablers and barriers to physical activity among older adults of low socio-economic status: a systematic review of qualitative literature.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Pooled it
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- The Co-Production, Pilot and Qualitative Evaluation of a Cancer Prevention Programme With High-Risk Women Delivered on Group Walks by Cancer Champions: Shoulder to Shoulder, Walk and Talk.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Article
- Implement social prescribing successfully towards embedding: what works, for whom and in which context? A rapid realist review.BMC public health · 2024Review
- Therapeutic or detrimental mobilities? Walking groups for older adults.Health & place · 2020Article
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- Inequities and inequalities in outdoor walking groups: a scoping review.Public health reviews · 2020Article
- Development of a context-sensitive physical activity intervention for persons living with HIV and AIDS of low socioeconomic status using the behaviour change wheel.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Nature-Based Interventions for Improving Health and Wellbeing: The Purpose, the People and the Outcomes.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Missed opportunities in the evaluation of public health interventions: a case study of physical activity programmes.BMC public health · 2017Article
- Promoting physical activity interventions in communities with poor health and socio-economic profiles: A process evaluation of the implementation of a new walking group scheme.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2016Article
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Abstract
Walking groups can benefit health but uptake is more likely amongst those who are socially well-situated and need them least. This study worked with a new walking group in a community in England with poor health and socio-economic indicators to understand non-participation and barriers to involvement. It used a qualitative approach. Participant generated photographs captured the physical and social environments in which they walked and these were used with semi-structured interviews to inductively explore walking group participation and the wider social context of walking. We found that prior to joining there were low expectations of any health benefit and walking groups were not viewed as 'proper' activity. The group format and social expectations presented a barrier to joining. Having joined participants described a developing awareness of the health benefits of walking. The shared sense of achieving health goals with others sustained the group rather than socialising, per se. We suggest that walking group participation is a complex social practice. Promoting walking groups as a social activity for this group of people may well have been counter-productive.
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