Campaigns and Informational Approaches to Increase Physical Activity: Community-Wide Campaigns

Included Studies

Goodman RM, Wheeler FC, Lee PR. Evaluation of the Heart To Heart Project: lessons from a community-based chronic disease prevention project. Am J Health Promot 1995;9:443–55.

Jason LA, Greiner BJ, Naylor K, Johnson SP, Van Egeren L. A large-scale, short-term, media-based weight loss program. Am J Health Promot 1991;5:432–7.

Luepker RV, Murray DM, Jacobs DJ, et al. Community education for cardiovascular disease prevention: risk factor changes in the Minnesota Heart Health Program. Am J Public Health 1994;84:1383–93.

Malmgren S, Andersson G. Who were reached by and participated in a one year newspaper health information campaign? Scand J Soc Med 1986;14:133–40.

Meyer AJ. Skills training in a cardiovascular health education campaign. J Consult Clin Psychol 1980;48:129–42.

Osler M, Jespersen NB. The effect of a community-based cardiovascular disease prevention project in a Danish municipality. Dan Med Bull 1993;40:485–9.

Owen N, Lee C, Naccarella L, Haag K. Exercise by mail: a mediated behavior-change program for aerobic exercise. J Sport Psychol 1987;9:346–57.

Tudor-Smith C, Nutbeam D, Moore L, Catford J. Effects of the Heartbeat Wales programme over five years on behavioural risks for cardiovascular disease: quasi-experimental comparison of results from Wales and a matched reference area. BMJ 1998;316(7134):818–22.

Wimbush E, MacGregor A, Fraser E. Impacts of a national mass media campaign on walking in Scotland. Health Promot Internation 1998;13:45–53.

Young DR, Haskell WL, Taylor CB, Fortmann SP. Effect of community health education on physical activity knowledge, attitudes, and behavior. The Stanford Five-City Project. Am J Epidemiol 1996;144:264–74.