Physical Activity Clinical Trial
Official title:
Parks and Physical Activity in Diverse Communities
Engaging in physical activity is an important health behavior for maintaining good health and preventing disease. Public parks offer community members readily accessible areas for recreation and exercise. Modifying park programs and facilities to meet the specific needs of community members may encourage people to engage in more physical activity. Furthermore, using feedback from the community might be the best way to determine how park funds should be allocated for modifications. This study will compare two approaches to park programming and will determine which approach is best at increasing physical activity within the community.
Regular physical activity, such as walking, running, or biking, is known to have substantial
health benefits. Exercise is important not only in weight management, but also in reducing
the risk of certain diseases and promoting psychological well being. In fact, each year
about 1.9 million deaths are attributed to physical inactivity, making programs to promote
increased physical activity a public health priority. Public parks are easily accessible
recreational areas, and they provide beneficial places to implement programs that encourage
physical activity among community members. Using information on park use and assessments of
community feedback may help improve park outreach, programming, and features aimed to
increase physical activity in the community. This study will compare two approaches to park
programming and will determine which approach is best at increasing physical activity within
the community. The first approach is CBPR, a research program that involves community
members in scientific and systematic park assessments that are then analyzed to guide park
programming. The second approach simply provides park utilization and community feedback
data to park directors to guide park programming.
Park participation in this study will last 1 year. Participating parks will be assigned
randomly to one of three conditions:
- Parks assigned to Condition 1 will participate in CBPR, which will include assessments
of observations and surveys about park programs and facilities. Anonymous members of
the surrounding community will be involved in the assessments, which will be conducted
at baseline and Year 1.
- Parks assigned to Condition 2 will receive the director-only condition. These parks
will not take part in any assessments, but park directors will be provided with park
utilization data, community feedback, and ways to improve park features to increase
physical activity.
- Parks assigned to Condition 3 will receive the control condition and will not take part
in the assessments or be provided with park utilization data and community feedback.
Administrative data about parks and park functions will also be collected from all
participating parks.
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Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention
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