Effect of Community Volunteering on Physical Activity: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Older adults with a high number of chronic conditions and who live in environments that do not promote physical activity have great difficulty initiating and adhering to exercise programs. Novel lifestyle activity interventions that can effectively increase physical activity may address disparities in health in these populations. This study evaluates the effects of the Baltimore Experience Corps program, a community-based volunteer program, on walking activity in older adults.

Methods

The Baltimore Experience Corps Trial is a sex-stratified RCT that recruited participants from 2006 to 2009. Older adult participants aged ≥60 years (n=123) were from a nested objective physical activity trial within the larger Baltimore Experience Corps Trial. Participants randomiz

SUBMITTER: Varma VR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4691553 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature