Storytelling in community intervention research: lessons learned from the walk your heart to health intervention.

Background: Contextually and culturally congruent interventions are urgently needed to reduce racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic inequities in physical activity and cardiovascular disease.

Objectives: To examine a community-based participatory research (CBPR) process that incorporated storytelling into a physical activity intervention, and consider implications for reducing health inequities.

Methods: We used a CBPR process to incorporate storytelling in an existing walking group intervention.