Social cohesion emerging from a community-based physical activity program: A temporal network analysis.

ABSTRACT: Community-based physical activity programs, such as the Recreovía, are effective in promoting healthy behaviors in Latin America. To understand Recreovías' challenges and scalability, we characterized its social network longitudinally while studying its participants' social cohesion and interactions. First, we constructed the Main network of the program's Facebook profile in 2013 to determine the main stakeholders and communities of participants. Second, we studied the Temporal network growth of the Facebook profiles of three Recreovía locations from 2008 to 2016. We implemented a Time Windows in Networks algorithm to determine observation periods and a scaling model of cities' growth to measure social cohesion over time. Our results show physical activity instructors as the main stakehold

SUBMITTER: Jaramillo AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8315584 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature