Investigate-Design-Practice-Reflect: An Iterative Community-Engaged Action Process to Improve Population Health.

Background: Community-based coalitions are a common strategy for community engagement efforts targeting the improvement of a variety of population health outcomes. The typical processes that coalitions follow to organize efforts include steps that are sequential, slow, and time intensive. These processes also limit local decision-making to the selection of evidence-based policies or programs.

A Protocol for a Local Community Monitoring and Feedback System for Physical Activity in Organized Group Settings for Children.

Background: Communities are wellness landscapes of geospatially and temporally bound settings where children spend their time. Improving population physical activity (PA) requires investigating available community settings for children, such as classrooms and sport teams, and the dynamic social interactions producing PA. This protocol describes a multiscale community wellness landscape monitoring and feedback system of adult-led organized group settings and PA outcomes for children.

COVID-19 pandemic and changes in children's physical activity in a rural US community: a mixed methods study.

Objectives: To examine differences in rural community children's moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and participation in out-of-school activities from fall 2019 to fall 2020 and explore enacted PA opportunity modifications post initial COVID-19 disruption.

Design: Mixed methods study using the validated Youth Activity Profile (YAP), administrator reports and stakeholder surveys and semistructured interviews.

Setting: Children and community stakeholders from one rural US Great Plains community in the state of Nebraska were recruited.

A protocol for coordinating rural community stakeholders to implement whole-of-community youth physical activity surveillance through school systems.

Accurate and effective local data collection systems are needed to inform community change on youth health behaviors such as physical activity (PA). Systematic methods are particularly important for understanding PA behaviors that may be influenced by individual, interpersonal, organizational, and regional factors. The purpose of this study was to describe a protocol for coordinating community stakeholders to implement an online youth PA surveillance instrument.

The Importance of Self-Monitoring for Behavior Change in Youth: Findings from the SWITCH School Wellness Feasibility Study.

School Wellness Integration Targeting Child Health (SWITCH) is a school wellness implementation initiative focused on building capacity for schools to plan and coordinate wellness programming. Grounded in Social Cognitive Theory (SCT), the purpose of this study was to evaluate the utility of the web-based, self-regulation system on physical activity (PA) behavior outcomes. At pre-test and post-test, students in SWITCH schools ( = 8) completed the online Youth Activity Profile (YAP) to assess PA and sedentary behavior (SB).