Going Places: An Active Transportation Intervention to Increase Youth Physical Activity, Durham, North Carolina, 2023-2024.

D'Agostino, Emily M; Neshteruk, Cody D; Li, Tang; Davis, Jeremiah; Granados, Isa; Kumar, Advika; Forde, Jeffrey; Hornik, Christoph P · Am J Public Health · 2025

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Abstract

Routine youth physical activity (PA) fosters healthy habits and lasting cardiometabolic benefits into adulthood; however, significant disparities in PA persist by race, ethnicity, and income. Active transportation is an optimal intervention target to promote youth PA equity by building transportation self-efficacy skills. Going Places, a multilevel transportation self-efficacy intervention, aims to increase underserved youth PA and cardiometabolic health. We demonstrate preliminary efficacy, based on increased levels of PA, improved transportation self-efficacy, and reduced barriers to transportation use and PA to support positive patterns for lifelong health. (<i>Am J Public Health</i>. 2025;115(5):693-697. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308012).

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