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Wheeling Walks.
- Source :
- Family & Community Health; Jan-Mar2005, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p64-78, 15p, 6 Charts, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- Mass media community-wide physical activity intervention to promote and sustain changes in walking was assessed using a 2-community longitudinal design. The intervention targeted sedentary 50- to 65-year-old residents of Wheeling, West Virginia. Telephone surveys of a probability sample followed cohorts at baseline and at 3-, 6-, and 12-month post-intervention with comparison communities. The intervention, consisting of paid advertisements, public relations, and community participatory planning, attained high levels of awareness and effected significant sustained population-wide changes among the most sedentary in Wheeling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01606379
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Family & Community Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 17558540
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00003727-200501000-00009