Trial reportBMC public health2018
Changing the housing environment to reduce obesity in public housing residents: a cluster randomized trial.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.
- Community Walks: a cluster randomized controlled trial of a multilevel physical activity intervention for low income public housing residents.BMC public health · 2023Trial
- Examination of Food Insecurity, Socio-Demographic, Psychosocial, and Physical Factors among Residents in Public Housing.Ethnicity & disease · 2021Trial
- Socioeconomic and Structural Barriers to Addressing Obesity in Communities: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.Circulation · 2026Review
- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Public Housing Areas: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- "Sometimes We Can't Afford the Healthy Stuff": Perceptions of Cardiovascular Disease Risk and Healthy Food Accessibility Among Black Women Living in Public Housing.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Association of Housing Instability with Obesity Status Among Insured Adults.American journal of preventive medicine · 2024Article
- A natural experiment: The opening of a supermarket in a public housing community and impacts on children's dietary patterns.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Article
- Process evaluation and impact results of the worksite component of a multilevel, multicomponent obesity prevention trial in six Native American communities.Journal of hunger & environmental nutrition · 2024Article
- Perspective: Do Scientists Become Part of the Obesity Problem?Obesity facts · 2024Article
- Federal Housing Assistance and Chronic Disease Among US Adults, 2005-2018.Preventing chronic disease · 2023Article
- Heterogeneity in grocery shopping patterns among low-income minority women in public housing.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Housing environments and asthma outcomes within population-based samples of adults and children in NYC.Preventive medicine · 2022Article
- 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
- The wellbeing needs of social housing tenants in Australia: an exploratory study.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Public Rental Housing and Obesogenic Behaviors among Adults in Hong Kong: Mediator Role of Food and Physical Activity Environment.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Protocol for the Rhode Island CORD 3.0 Study: Adapting, Testing, and Packaging theChildhood obesity (Print) · 2021Article
- Community health worker-delivered weight management intervention among public housing residents: A feasibility study.Preventive medicine reports · 2021Article
- A belief-based parenting behavior model for promoting family's ability to care for children with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) in Indonesia.Journal of public health research · 2021Article
- Multilevel interventions to prevent and reduce obesity.Current opinion in endocrine and metabolic research · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundPublic housing residents face significant social, economic, and physical barriers to the practice of health behaviors for prevention of chronic disease. Research shows that public housing residents are more likely to report higher rates of obesity, current smoking, disability, and insufficient physical activity compared to individuals not living in public housing. Because these behaviors and conditions may be shaped by the built and social environments in which they live, we conducted a study to test an environmental level diet and physical activity intervention targeting obesity among urban public housing developments.
methodsThis study was a cluster randomized controlled trial of public housing developments, the unit of analysis and randomization. A total of 10 public housing developments were recruited and subsequently randomized to either receive the intervention package or to serve as comparison sites. The year-long intervention included components to change the dietary and physical activity-related environments of the developments. Surveys at baseline and one-year follow-up provided data on changes in behaviors and weight from participants in both intervention and control developments.
resultsIntervention participants significantly changed their eating and activity behaviors and body weight from baseline to one-year follow-up (p's < .05) while comparison participants reported no significant changes in any study variable.
conclusionsThese data provide initial support for the idea that interventions targeting the environment of public housing developments can assist residents to change unhealthy behaviors and can possibly reduce the high levels of chronic disease among public housing residents.
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