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Free Time For Wellness: a co-designed intervention utilizing social networks to encourage physical activity for cancer prevention among low resourced mothers

Houghton LC 1 , Gibbons MP 2 , Shekelle J 2 , Oakley-Girvan I 3 , Watterson JL 4 , Magsamen-Conrad K 5 Show all authors , Jones C 6 , Gokal K 7

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 722 W 168th Street, New York, NY, 10032, USA. Lh2746@cumc.columbia.edu
  • 2 Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 722 W 168th Street, New York, NY, 10032, USA
  • 3 The Public Health Institute, The Data and Technology Proving Ground Program, 555 12th Ave, 10th Floor, Oakland, CA, 94607, USA
  • 4 Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Subang Jaya, Malaysia
  • 5 Department of Communication Studies, The University of Iowa, 257 Becker Communication Studies Building, Iowa City, IA, 52245, USA
  • 6 Manchester Centre for Health Economics, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
  • 7 National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine (NCSEM), School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK
BMC Public Health, 2021 10 07;21(1):1805.
PMID: 34620141 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-11775-9

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Physical activity is central to chronic disease prevention. Low resource mothers face structural barriers preventing them from increasing their physical activity to reduce their chronic disease risk. We co-designed an intervention, with the ultimate goal of building social cohesion through social media to increase physical activity for low resourced mothers in urban settings.

METHODS: In 2019, we interviewed 10 mothers of children (

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