Shared use agreements and leisure time physical activity in North Carolina public schools

Carlton, Troy; Kanters, Michael A.; Bocarro, Jason N.; Floyd, Myron F.; Edwards, Mike; Suau, Luis J.

doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2016.08.037

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“…For example, although some residents expressed their desire to use the athletics facilities at schools, these spaces are usually prioritized for use by youth sports. Competition for physical activity spaces in rural settings has not been discussed extensively in the literature, but suggests a need for shared- or open-use policies with schools outside school hours to enable structured physical activity programs that are tailored to adults [ 14 , 35 , 36 ]. In the focus groups and interviews, we commonly heard about the use of “non-traditional” spaces for physical activity.…”

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Environmental Influences on Physical Activity among Rural Adults in Montana, United States: Views from Built Environment Audits, Resident Focus Groups, and Key Informant Interviews

Morgan

Folta

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Rural populations in the United States have lower physical activity levels and are at a higher risk of being overweight and suffering from obesity than their urban counterparts. This paper aimed to understand the environmental factors that influence physical activity among rural adults in Montana. Eight built environment audits, 15 resident focus groups, and 24 key informant interviews were conducted between August and December 2014. Themes were triangulated and summarized into five categories of environmental factors: built, social, organizational, policy, and natural environments. Although the existence of active living features was documented by environmental audits, residents and key informants agreed that additional indoor recreation facilities and more well-maintained and conveniently located options were needed. Residents and key informants also agreed on the importance of age-specific, well-promoted, and structured physical activity programs, offered in socially supportive environments, as facilitators to physical activity. Key informants, however, noted that funding constraints and limited political will were barriers to developing these opportunities. Since building new recreational facilities and structures to support active transportation pose resource challenges, especially for rural communities, our results suggest that enhancing existing features, making small improvements, and involving stakeholders in the city planning process would be more fruitful to build momentum towards larger changes.

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Environmental Influences on Physical Activity among Rural Adults in Montana, United States: Views from Built Environment Audits, Resident Focus Groups, and Key Informant Interviews

Morgan

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“…A shared use agreement, a specific example of how facilitation can be operationalized for the physical environment, is an important practice-based concept in which an agreement is made between two or more parties to allow use of a given physical space for health-related activity (52). Examples of interweaving health promotion into existing physical environments include: Pop-up parks, PA, and social capital : Pop-up parks, like Ciclovias/Recreovias (open-street events) (87, 88) or dual-use facilities (e.g., parks located in-school grounds that are open to the community after school hours) (89) challenge the notion that urban spaces are naturally permanent. Pop-up parks are by definition small and temporary, and are located in areas typically reserved for cars (parking lots, streets) (90).…”

Section: Physical Environmentmentioning

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“…Pop-up parks, PA, and social capital : Pop-up parks, like Ciclovias/Recreovias (open-street events) (87, 88) or dual-use facilities (e.g., parks located in-school grounds that are open to the community after school hours) (89) challenge the notion that urban spaces are naturally permanent. Pop-up parks are by definition small and temporary, and are located in areas typically reserved for cars (parking lots, streets) (90).…”

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Health by Design: Interweaving Health Promotion into Environments and Settings

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Evans

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Front. Public Health

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The important influence of the environmental context on health and health behavior—which includes place, settings, and the multiple environments within place and settings—has directed health promotion planners from a focus solely on changing individuals, toward a focus on harnessing and changing context for individual and community health promotion. Health promotion planning frameworks such as Intervention Mapping provide helpful guidance in addressing various facets of the environmental context in health intervention design, including the environmental factors that influence a given health condition or behavior, environmental agents that can influence a population’s health, and environmental change methods. In further exploring how to harness the environmental context for health promotion, we examine in this paper the concept of interweaving of health promotion into context, defined as weaving or blending together health promotion strategies, practices, programs, and policies to fit within, complement, and build from existing settings and environments. Health promotion interweaving stems from current perspectives in health intervention planning, improvement science and complex systems thinking by guiding practitioners from a conceptualization of context as a backdrop to intervention, to one that recognizes context as integral to the intervention design and to the potential to directly influence health outcomes. In exploring the general approach of health promotion interweaving, we examine selected theoretical and practice-based interweaving concepts in relation to four key environments (the policy environment, the information environment, the social/cultural/organizational environment, and the physical environment), followed by evidence-based and practice-based examples of health promotion interweaving from the literature. Interweaving of health promotion into context is a common practice for health planners in designing health promotion interventions, yet one which merits further intentionality as a specific health promotion planning design approach.

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“…Para crianças e adolescentes em idade escolar, a escola e seus arredores são um importante local de promoção de hábitos saudáveis e a qualidade de suas estruturas físicas e instalações é fundamental para seu uso 9 . As opções de estruturas que os arredores escolares oferecem para realização de atividades físicas e práticas esportivas, de quadras esportivas à playgrounds e parques verdes, promovem equidade de acesso aos alunos a um ambiente propício e seguro para essas práticas sem custos financeiros adicionais, mesmo naquelas atividades orientadas de programas em turno inverso ao escolar 1,10 . Desse modo, o presente estudo tem como objetivo comparar o nível de aptidão cardiorrespiratória e a composição corporal de escolares pertencentes a escolas com e sem estrutura física em seu entorno, para a prática de atividades físicas e esportivas.…”

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Aptidão Cardiorrespiratória, Composição Corporal De Escolares E Estruturas Físicas Para Prática De Atividades Físicas

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RESUMOO presente estudo transversal objetiva comparar o nível de aptidão cardiorrespiratória (APCR) e a composição corporal de 393 escolares, pertencentes a escolas com e sem estrutura física no entorno para a prática de atividades físicas e esportivas em Santa Cruz do Sul -RS. Os níveis de APCR de escolares, tanto do sexo masculino, quanto do feminino, são superiores no ambiente que possui maior quantidade de estruturas esportivas em seu entorno. Não foi observada relação entre a infraestrutura e a composição corporal dos escolares. Conclui-se que escolares, de ambos os sexos, que estudam em escolas com estruturas esportivas em seu entorno, apresentam maiores níveis de APCR, em comparação aos escolares pertencentes às escolas com baixa presença de estruturas esportivas. Descritores ABSTRACTThis cross-sectional study aims to compare the level of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and the body composition of 393 school children, with and without physical structure in the school environment for physical and sports activities in Santa Cruz do Sul -RS. Regarding CRF levels, it is observed that schoolchildren, both male and female, who study in study in schools with presence of sports structures in their environment have better values. There was no relation between infrastructure and body composition in school children. It's concluded that schoolchildren of both sexes who study in schools with sports structures in their surroundings present higher levels of CRF compared to schoolchildren belonging to schools with a low presence of sports structures.

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Shared use agreements and leisure time physical activity in North Carolina public schools

Cited by 21 publications

References 39 publications

Environmental Influences on Physical Activity among Rural Adults in Montana, United States: Views from Built Environment Audits, Resident Focus Groups, and Key Informant Interviews

Environmental Influences on Physical Activity among Rural Adults in Montana, United States: Views from Built Environment Audits, Resident Focus Groups, and Key Informant Interviews

Health by Design: Interweaving Health Promotion into Environments and Settings

Aptidão Cardiorrespiratória, Composição Corporal De Escolares E Estruturas Físicas Para Prática De Atividades Físicas

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