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  • Social Network Analysis
  • Community Interventions

Background:

  • Community-based physical activity programs promote healthy behaviors in Latin America.
  • Understanding Recreovía's social dynamics is crucial for its scalability and effectiveness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To characterize the social network of Recreovía participants longitudinally.
  • To assess social cohesion and interactions within the program.

Main Methods:

  • Constructed the main social network from Recreovía's Facebook profile (2013).
  • Analyzed temporal network growth across three Recreovía locations (2008-2016).
  • Applied Time Windows in Networks algorithm and city growth scaling models.

Main Results:

  • Physical activity instructors identified as main stakeholders (20.84% of network nodes).
  • Observed incremental growth in users, friendships, clustering coefficient, and density.
  • Found super-linear growth in social cohesion (1.73 new friendships per user).

Conclusions:

  • Physical activity instructors significantly influence program dynamics.
  • Emergent social cohesion is a co-benefit during program innovation periods.
  • The study links social and health behavior dimensions using a systemic approach.