Effect of community health education on physical activity knowledge, attitudes, and behavior: The Stanford Five-City Project

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 264-274

  Young, Deborah Rohm ^a   Haskell, William L ^a   Taylor, C Barr ^a   Fortmann, Stephen P ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029830075     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a008921     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Morris JN, Kagan A, Pattison DC, et al. Incidence and prediction of ischemic heart disease in London busmen. Lancet 1966;2:552-9.
2. Paffenbarger RS Jr, Hale WE. Work activity and coronary heart disease mortality. N Engl J Med 1975;292:545-50.
3. Morris JN, Everitt MG, Pollard R, et al. Vigorous exercise in leisure-time: protection against coronary heart disease. Lancet 1980;2:1207-10.
4. Leon AN, Connett J, Jacobs DR, et al. Leisure-time physical activity levels and risk of coronary heart disease and death: the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial. JAMA 1987;258: 2388-95.
5. Paffenbarger RS Jr, Hyde RT, Wing AL, et al. Physical activity, all-cause mortality, and longevity of college alumni, N Engl J Med 1986;314:605-13.
6. Blair SN, Kohl HW III, Paffenbarger RS Jr, et al. Physical fitness and all-cause mortality: a prospective study of healthy men and women. JAMA 1989;262:2395-401.
7. Ekelund LG, Haskell WL, Johnson JL, et al. Physical fitness as a predictor of cardiovascular mortality in asymptomatic North American men. N Engl J Med 1988;319:1379-84.
8. Sandvik L, Eriksson J, Thaulow E, et al. Physical fitness as a predictor of mortality among healthy, middle-aged Norwegian men. N Engl J Med 1993;328:533-7.
9. Berlin JE, Colditz GA. A meta-analysis of physical activity in the prevention of coronary heart disease. Am J Epidemiol 1990;132:612-28.
10. Powell KE, Thompson PD, Caspersen CJ, et al. Physical activity and the incidence of coronary heart disease. Ann Rev Public Health 1987;8:253-87.
11. Powell KE, Blair SN. The public health burdens of sedentary living habits: theoretical but realistic estimates. Med Sci Sports Exerc 1994;26:851-6.
12. Marti B, Salonen JT, Tuomilehto J, et al. 10-year trends in physical activity in the Eastern Finnish adult population: relationship in socioeconomic and lifestyle characteristics. Acta Med Scand 1988;224:195-203.
13. Meyer AJ, Nash JD, McAlister AL, et al. Skills training in a cardiovascular health education campaign. J Consult Clin Psychol 1980;48:129-42.
14. Farquhar JW, Fortmann SP, Maccoby N, et al. The Stanford Five-City Project: design and methods. Am J Epidemiol 1985; 122:323-34.
15. Mittelmark MB, Luepker RV, Jacobs DR, et al. Communitywide prevention of cardiovascular disease: education strategies of the Minnesota Heart Health Program. Prev Med 1986; 15:107-17.
16. Elder JP, McGraw SA, Abrams DB, et al. Organizational and community approaches to community-wide prevention of heart disease: the first two years of the Pawtucket Heart Health Program. Prev Med 1986;15:107-17.
17. Farquhar JW, Fortmann SP, Flora JA, et al. Effects of communitywide education cardiovascular disease risk factors. The Stanford Five-City Project. JAMA 1990;264:359-65.
18. Fortmann SP, Winkleby MA, Flora JA, et al. Effect of long-term community health education on blood pressure and hypertension control: the Stanford Five-City Project. Am J Epidemiol 1990;132:629-46.
19. Taylor CB, Fortmann SP, Flora J, et al. Effect of long-term community health education on body mass index: the Stanford Five-City Project. Am J Epidemiol 1991;134:235-49.
20. Fortmann SP, Taylor CB, Flora JA, et al. Changes in adult cigarette smoking prevalence after 5 years of community health education: the Stanford Five-City Project. Am J Epidemiol 1993;137:82-96.
21. Fortmann SP, Taylor CB, Flora JA, et al. Effect of community health education on plasma cholesterol levels and diet: the Stanford Five-City Project. Am J Epidemiol 1993;137: 1039-55.
22. Sallis JF, Haskell WL, Wood PD, et al. Physical activity assessment methodology in the Five-City Project. Am J Epidemiol 1985;121:91-106.
23. Blair SN, Haskell WL, Ho P, et al. Assessment of habitual physical activity by a seven-day recall in a community survey and controlled experiments. Am J Epidemiol 1986;122: 794-804.
24. Altman DG, Frank E, Evans AJ, et al. A worksite contest. Proceedings of the Society of Behavioral Medicine Seventh Annual Scientific Sessions; March, 1986, San Francisco. Washington, DC: Society of Behavioral Medicine, 1986.
25. Maibach E, Flora JA, Nass C. Changes in self-efficacy and health behavior in response to a minimal contact community health campaign. Health Communication 1991;3:1-15.
26. Pate RR, Pratt M, Blair SN, et al. Physical activity and public health. A recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Sports Medicine. JAMA 1995;273:402-7.
27. Winkleby MA, Flora JA. A community-based heart disease intervention: predictors of change. Am J Public Health 1994; 84:767-72.
28. Luepker RV, Murray DM, Jacobs DR Jr, 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.
29. Nader PR, Sallis JF, Patterson TL, et al. A family approach to cardiovascular risk reduction: results from the San Diego Family Health Project. Health Educ Q 1989;16:229-44.
30. Knutsen SF, Knutsen R. The Tromsø survey: the Family Intervention Study - the effect of intervention on some coronary risk factors and dietary habits, a 6-year follow-up. Prev Med 1991;20:197-212.
31. Dept of Health and Human Services. Promoting health/ preventing disease: objectives for the nation. Washington, DC: US GPO, 1980.
32. Dept of Health and Human Services. Healthy people 2000. National health promotion and disease prevention objectives. Washington, DC: Dept of Health and Human Services, 1990. (DHHS publication no. (PHS) 91-50213).
33. Crespo CJ, Keteyian SJ, Heath GW, et al. Leisure time physical activity among US adults: results from the third National Examination Survey. Arch Intern Med 1996;156:93-8.