Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends park, trail, and greenway infrastructure interventions when combined with additional interventions to increase physical activity. Evidence from the systematic review shows these interventions increase the number of people who engage…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends home-based exercise interventions to improve physical fitness (i.e., muscle strength, muscle power, muscle endurance, balance) among adults aged 65 years and older. The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, 2nd edition recommends older…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends implementing individually-adapted health behavior change programs based on strong evidence of their effectiveness in increasing physical activity and improving physical fitness among adults and children. Intervention Individually-adapted health behavior change…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) finds insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of stand-alone mass media campaigns to increase physical activity at the population level. Sixteen eligible studies that evaluated stand-alone mass media campaigns of varied intensity…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends implementing efforts made in community settings to provide social support for increasing physical activity based on strong evidence of their effectiveness in increasing physical activity and improving physical fitness among…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends point-of-decision prompts on the basis of strong evidence of effectiveness in increasing the percentage of people choosing to take the stairs rather than an elevator or escalator. There were not…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) finds insufficient evidence to determine whether park, trail, and greenway infrastructure improvements increase physical activity when they are implemented without additional interventions. Evidence was considered insufficient because changes in physical activity were…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends interventions to increase active travel to school based on evidence they increase walking among students and reduce risks for traffic-related injury. Economic evidence indicates the economic benefits exceed the cost…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends interventions that include activity monitors to increase physical activity in adults with overweight or obesity. More research is needed, however, to determine whether changes in physical activity are maintained over…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends built environment strategies that combine one or more interventions to improve pedestrian or bicycle transportation systems with one or more land use and environmental design interventions to increase physical activity.…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends family-based interventions to increase physical activity among children. Intervention Family-based interventions combine activities to build family support with health education to increase physical activity among children. Interventions include one or…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends enhanced school-based physical education (PE) to increase physical activity. Intervention Enhanced school-based physical education (PE) involves changing the curriculum and course work for K-12 students to increase the amount of…