Environmental perceptions and objective walking trail audits inform a community-based participatory research walking intervention.

Background: Given the documented physical activity disparities that exist among low-income minority communities and the increased focused on socio-ecological approaches to address physical inactivity, efforts aimed at understanding the built environment to support physical activity are needed. This community-based participatory research (CBPR) project investigates walking trails perceptions in a high minority southern community and objectively examines walking trails. The primary aim is to explore if perceived and objective audit variables predict meeting recommendations for walking and physical activity, MET/minutes/week of physical activity, and frequency of trail use.

Psychometric characteristics of process evaluation measures for a rural school-based childhood obesity prevention study: Louisiana Health.

Purpose: To evaluate the implementation of intervention components of the Louisiana Health study, which was a multicomponent childhood obesity prevention program conducted in rural schools.

Design: Content analysis.

Setting: Process evaluation assessed implementation in classrooms, gym classes, and cafeterias.