Built environment approaches: Extension personnel's preferences, barriers, and facilitators.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Interventions that modify the built environment can increase population physical activity levels and prevent chronic disease. The national Cooperative Extension System is poised to implement built environment approaches (i.e., pedestrian/bicycle infrastructure and enhanced access to physical activity spaces), but implementation strategies (i.e., methods or techniques to move research to practice) are needed to improve uptake. Effective implementation strategies address relevant barriers and capitalize on facilitators. The purpose of this study was to understand 1) barriers and facilitators to implementing built environment approaches in two state Extension systems, 2) preferences for built environment approaches, and 3) preferences for implementation strategies.

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SUBMITTER: Balis LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9614838 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature