ArticleBMC public health2022
Barriers to initiating and maintaining participation in parkrun.
Article in BMC public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Do Exercise-Based Prevention Programs Reduce Injury in Endurance Runners? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024Pooled it
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- Testing the effectiveness of a health intervention that manipulates the social environment at active leisure events in Scotland.Journal of public health research · 2025Article
- Coming back for more: individual participation patterns in the physical activity initiative parkrun in Australia.Health promotion international · 2024Article
- Study protocol - assessing parkrun for walking rehabilitation for people living with, and beyond, cancer: acceptability, adherence, social support and physical function.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Engaging underrepresented groups in community physical activity initiatives: a qualitative study of parkrun in the UK.BMC public health · 2024Article
- New Parkrunners Are Slower and the Attendance Gender Gap Narrowing Making Parkrun More Inclusive.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Predictors of successful return to parkrun for first-time adult participants in Scotland.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- parkrun and the promotion of physical activity: insights for primary care clinicians from an online survey.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2022Article
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Abstract
Interventions that increase population physical activity are required to promote health and wellbeing. parkrun delivers community-based, 5 km events worldwide yet 43% who register never participate in a parkrun event. This research had two objectives; i) explore the demographics of people who register for parkrun in United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, and don't initiate or maintain participation ii) understand the barriers to participating in parkrun amongst these people. Mandatory data at parkrun registration provided demographic characteristics of parkrun registrants. A bespoke online survey distributed across the three countries captured the reasons for not participating or only participating once. Of 680,255 parkrun registrants between 2017 and 19, 293,542 (43%) did not participate in any parkrun events and 147,148 (22%) only participated in one parkrun event. Females, 16-34 years and physically inactive were more likely to not participate or not return to parkrun. Inconvenient start time was the most frequently reported barrier to participating, with females more likely than males to report the psychological barrier of feeling too unfit to participate. Co-creating strategies with and for people living with a chronic disease, women, young adults, and physically inactive people, could increase physical activity participation within parkrun.
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