An Initiative to Facilitate Park Usage, Discovery, and Physical Activity Among Children and Adolescents in Greenville County, South Carolina, 2014

Fair, Molly; Kaczynski, Andrew T.; Hughey, S. Morgan; Besenyi, Gina M.; Powers, Alicia

doi:10.5888/pcd14.160043

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“…One example of person-based interventions included integrating physical activity and nutritional counseling, 40 , 41 which resulted in significant weight reduction, increases in nutritional knowledge, and playing outdoor games to promote physical activity, 42 thereby significantly increasing physical activity and park utilization. Another person-based intervention improved emotional wellbeing (i.e., equilibrium between resources and challenges) 43 and proxy-reported social skills.…”

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“… 31 Relatedly, all but two person-based studies were effective at changing a health-related outcome among children. 31 , 42 Five studies conducted follow-ups after post-tests to assess longer-term intervention effects. 33 - 35 , 37 , 41 Studies using the Fit2Play intervention reported that after 2 years, improvements in cardiovascular health were associated with parks in less segregated areas, indicating a need to examine the social contexts where parks are located.…”

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The Effects of Park-Based Interventions on Health-Related Outcomes Among Youth: A Systematic Review

Wallace¹,

Han

Cohen

et al. 2022

Am J Health Promot

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Objective The purpose of the study is to present a comprehensive systematic review of the effects of park-based interventions on health outcomes among youth, defined as children and adolescents. Data Source Web of Science, MEDLINE, and Scopus databases searched through November 2020. Study Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria Interventions conducted in publicly accessible parks that evaluated health outcomes (i.e., physical, mental, and emotional); focused on children and adolescents (up to 18 years old, or up to 22 years old for individuals with developmental needs); and was published in English, Spanish, and Chinese. Data Extraction Two independent reviewers extracted data and assessed the quality of the 15 included studies using the Guide to Community Preventive Services tool. Data Synthesis Descriptive summary of study characteristics and summarized methodological quality of the studies. Results Twelve studies were person-based interventions involving the evaluation of health outcome changes in cohorts, and the remaining studies were park-based, focused on changing the park environment and observing changes in youth participation in parks. All identified interventions were positively associated with individual-level and park-level outcomes ranging from body weight, moderate-to-vigorous-intensity physical activity, park utilization, and health behavior knowledge. Conclusions This systematic review demonstrated that parks as sites of interventions can provide an environment that promotes health and wellbeing for youth. Nevertheless, the number of relevant studies were limited, thus it is important to leverage and expand on existing knowledge of the utility of parks as sites of intervention to address health concerns at this critical juncture of the life course.

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The Effects of Park-Based Interventions on Health-Related Outcomes Among Youth: A Systematic Review

Wallace¹,

Han

Cohen

et al. 2022

Am J Health Promot

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“…[ 49 ] 2020 Canada Interventional a) Outcome evaluation b) Process evaluation a) RCT b) Cohort study MA 15.5 Problem behavior prevention b ; Sexual violence and/or adolescent relationship abuse prevention FAIR ET AL. [ 50 ] 2017 USA Interventional a) Outcome evaluation a) Quasi-experimental 0–18 Obesity prevention FLATTUM ET AL. [ 51 ] 2015 USA Interventional a) Outcome evaluation b) Process evaluation a) RCT b) Cohort study 8–12 Obesity prevention; Healthy nutrition promotion GARCIA ET AL.…”

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Evaluation of community-based health promotion interventions in children and adolescents in high-income countries: a scoping review on strategies and methods used

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Background In recent decades, community-based interventions have been increasingly adopted in the field of health promotion and prevention. While their evaluation is relevant for health researchers, stakeholders and practitioners, conducting these evaluations is also challenging and there are no existing standards yet. The objective of this review is to scope peer-reviewed scientific publications on evaluation approaches used for community-based health promotion interventions. A special focus lies on children and adolescents’ prevention. Methods A scoping review of the scientific literature was conducted by searching three bibliographic databases (Medline, EMBASE, PsycINFO). The search strategy encompassed search terms based on the PCC (Population, Concept, Context) scheme. Out of 6,402 identified hits, 44 articles were included in this review. Results Out of the 44 articles eligible for this scoping review, the majority reported on studies conducted in the USA (n = 28), the UK (n = 6), Canada (n = 4) and Australia (n = 2). One study each was reported from Belgium, Denmark, Germany and Scotland, respectively. The included studies described interventions that mostly focused on obesity prevention, healthy nutrition promotion or well-being of children and adolescents. Nineteen articles included more than one evaluation design (e.g., process or outcome evaluation). Therefore, in total we identified 65 study designs within the scope of this review. Outcome evaluations often included randomized controlled trials (RCTs; 34.2%) or specific forms of RCTs (cluster RCTs; 9.8%) or quasi-experimental designs (26.8%). Process evaluation was mainly used in cohort (54.2%) and cross-sectional studies (33.3%). Only few articles used established evaluation frameworks or research concepts as a basis for the evaluation. Conclusion Few studies presented comprehensive evaluation study protocols or approaches with different study designs in one paper. Therefore, holistic evaluation approaches were difficult to retrieve from the classical publication formats. However, these publications would be helpful to further guide public health evaluators, contribute to methodological discussions and to inform stakeholders in research and practice to make decisions based on evaluation results.

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“…Parks are a built environment feature considered ideal for PA. They are often in residential neighborhoods, offer several amenities for PA, and available year-round to residents of all ages, at no or low cost [ 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 ]. Given that there are 1,829,533 park acres within the 100 most populous cities in the U.S. and that parks are within walking distance for over 85% of residents of the 10 largest U.S. cities, parks are arguably one of the most important resources available for PA promotion [ 18 ].…”

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Assessing Park Quality with a Wearable Video Device and an Unmanned Aerial System

Suminski

Dominick

Plautz

2022

IJERPH

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Parks are ideal places for promoting physical activity, which is vital for achieving and sustaining good health. Thus, it is important to develop and provide the best methods for assessing aspects of parks that could influence physical activity. This study examined the use of high-tech video capture for describing park quality. Videos were obtained with a wearable video device (WVD) and an unmanned aerial system (UAS) at 28 and 17 parks, respectively. In-person audits of park attributes were performed using the Physical Activity Readiness Assessment (PARA) instrument while video was simultaneously captured. The PARA provides quality ratings of park attributes that range from poor to good. Kappa statistics were calculated to compare in-person PARA outcomes with PARA outcomes obtained by reviewing the WVD and UAS videos. Substantial and almost-perfect agreements were found between WVD and in-person PARAs on the quality of features and amenities and the severity of incivilities. Agreements between UAS and in-person PARAs on feature and amenity quality and incivility severity were unacceptable (mostly fair and moderate). In conclusion, being able to reliably assess park quality using video provides advantages over in-person assessments (e.g., retrospective analysis). In addition, it sets up the possibility of utilizing computer vision to automate the video analysis process.

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An Initiative to Facilitate Park Usage, Discovery, and Physical Activity Among Children and Adolescents in Greenville County, South Carolina, 2014

Cited by 9 publications

References 22 publications

The Effects of Park-Based Interventions on Health-Related Outcomes Among Youth: A Systematic Review

The Effects of Park-Based Interventions on Health-Related Outcomes Among Youth: A Systematic Review

Evaluation of community-based health promotion interventions in children and adolescents in high-income countries: a scoping review on strategies and methods used

Assessing Park Quality with a Wearable Video Device and an Unmanned Aerial System

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