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Emily M D'Agostino1, Cody D Neshteruk1, Tang Li1
1Emily M. D'Agostino and Christoph P. Hornik are with the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC. Cody D. Neshteruk and Isa Granados are with the Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine. Tang Li is with the Department of Public Health Science, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA. Jeremiah Davis is with the Department of Family Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine. Advika Kumar is with the Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University School of Medicine. Jeffrey Forde is with the Durham Parks and Recreation, Durham, NC.
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. (Am J Public Health. 2025;115(5):693-697. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308012).
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