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Table 1 Studies examining how participants’ home neighbourhood environment influences physical activity intervention effects

From: When physical activity meets the physical environment: precision health insights from the intersection

Reference (first author; year)

Setting

Measure(s) of neighbourhood environment

Format of physical activity intervention

Intervention content

Physical activity measurement

Valence of environmental influence on intervention effect

  

Perceived

Objective

Instructor-led

Self-directed

 

Self-report

Device-based

Augmenting

Overcoming

No effect

King (2006) [12]

5 US metropolitan areas

  

Combined 3 different physical activity trials with varying interventions (e.g., telephone-based counseling, peer group support, culturally tailored self-help)

 

  

King (2006) [13]

Primary care facilities in 3 US metropolitan areas

  

3 intervention arms within the Activity Counseling Trial (physician counseling alone, physician counseling plus monthly print materials, physician counseling plus health educator telephone counseling)

 

  

Sallis (2007) [68]

Primary care facilities in 3 US metropolitan areas

  

3 intervention arms within the Activity Counseling Trial (see above for details)

 

  

Zenk (2009) [69]

Urban and suburban areas in and around Chicago, IL (USA)

 

 

12-month walking intervention for women in predominantly African-American communities

  

Michael (2009) [11]

Portland, OR (USA)

 

 

6-month lay-led neighbourhood-based walking groups

   

Merom (2009) [70]

New South Wales (Australia)

  

Self-help walking program with weekly diaries with or without pedometers

  

Kerr (2010) [14]

Urban and suburban areas in San Diego County, CA (USA)

 

Self-help walking program with weekly diaries with or without pedometers

  

 

Gebel (2011) [71]

Wheeling and Parkersburg, WV (USA)

  

Population-wide mass media intervention

 

  

Lee (2012) [72]

Houston and Austin, TX (USA)

 

 

6-month group cohesion intervention to promote walking among African-American and Hispanic/Latino women

 

Barnes (2013) [73]

Perth metropolitan area (Australia)

 

 

Television mass media campaign promoting 30 min of daily physical activity

   

King (2017) [74]

4 US metropolitan areas

 

 

Center- and home-based physical activity intervention among older adults

 

Jilcott Pitts (2017) [75]

Lenoir County in rural eastern NC (USA)

 

Four monthly lifestyle counseling sessions, including PA promotion

 

 

Perez (2018) [76]

San Diego County, CA (USA)

 

 

12 months of promotoras-led exercise classes at or near churches and PA promotion provided to Latino women

  

Lo (2019 )[77]

Rural towns in MT and NY (USA)

 

6 months of exercise classes, skills building, and field-based learning provided to women in rural communities

 

 
  1. Note: Instructor-led interventions included some component of structured or organized sessions in which participants engaged in physical activity together led by the intervention team; self-directed interventions included physical activity promotion in various formats (e.g., telephone, web-based, in-person) but did not include structured or organized sessions; see text for description of valence of results