ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2016
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.
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- Interventions to improve physical activity among socioeconomically disadvantaged groups: an umbrella review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2018Pooled it
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- Healthy Community Design, Anti-displacement, and Equity Strategies in the USA: A Scoping Review.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2023Article
- Exploring Residents' Perceptions of Neighborhood Development and Revitalization for Active Living Opportunities.Preventing chronic disease · 2022Article
- A Fitness App for Monitoring Walking Behavior and Perception (Runkeeper): Mixed Methods Pilot Study.JMIR formative research · 2021Article
- Development and evaluation of a physical activity intervention informed by participatory research- a feasibility study.BMC public health · 2020Article
- 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
- Improving cardiometabolic health through nudging dietary behaviours and physical activity in low SES adults: design of the Supreme Nudge project.BMC public health · 2018Article
- Community perceptions of the implementation and impact of an intervention to improve the neighbourhood physical environment to promote walking for transport: a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2018Article
- Missed opportunities in the evaluation of public health interventions: a case study of physical activity programmes.BMC public health · 2017Article
- Evaluation of the implementation of an intervention to improve the street environment and promote walking for transport in deprived neighbourhoods.BMC public health · 2017Article
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Abstract
Walking groups have known health benefits but may not operate in communities with the greatest health needs, leading to the potential for increasing health inequity. This study examined the process of implementing a new volunteer led walking group scheme in a deprived community in England with poor physical activity, health and socio-economic indicators. Documentary evidence and semi-structured interviews with stakeholders and volunteer walk leaders undertaken at the beginning and end of the funding period were analysed thematically. It was found that utilising community-based assets, forming collaborative partnerships with health and non-health organisations and ongoing sustainability issues were all factors that affected the scheme's effective implementation. Passive recruitment methods and mass publicity did not attract participants who were representative of their community. The findings firstly suggest the necessity of identifying and mobilising community based assets at the 'grass roots' in deprived communities during the preparatory stage to access those in greatest need and to plan and build capacity. Secondly, the findings highlight the key role that health professionals have in referring those in poorest health and the inactive into walking interventions. In the new era of fiscally constrained public health embedded within local authorities these findings are pertinent in supporting the utilisation of local assets to address entrenched physical inactivity and inequity within deprived communities.
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