Participation and engagement of a rural community in Ciclovia: progressing from research intervention to community adoption.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Open streets events, where roads are temporarily closed to motorized vehicles, can provide safe spaces for physical activity (PA) and become sustainable community infrastructure. Since 2016, we have collaborated with a rural community to implement an open streets event, named ciclovía. In 2019, ciclovía was adopted as a community-wide program. This paper describes the process of building and progressing a ciclovía from a research intervention to a community-adopted program and participation of a rural community in ciclovía.

Methods

We used community-based participatory research to foster bidirectional learning on how to optimize the content and implementation of ciclovía to be feasible and acceptable for rural communities. The community-academic partnership focuse

SUBMITTER: Ko LK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8556949 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature