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Volume 3: No. 1, January 2006

STEP BY STEP
A Six-Step Model for Evaluation of Community-based Physical Activity Programs

This figure is a logic model that illustrates a sequence of events for a sample community intervention to create or enhance access to physical activity. In general, the figure reads from left to right. It begins on the left with a box labeled “Inputs,” which lists health educator, YMCA, parks and recreation, shopping mall, community college, and tourism bureau. These inputs lead to two boxes, one labeled “Early Activities” and one labeled “Later Activities.” “Early Activities” include 1) coordinating a meeting and conducting a focus group and 2) developing informational outreach activities via clinics and the city hospital. “Later Activities” include 1) mapping facilities, 2) offering reduced-fee night for use of pool, 3) establishing a women’s volleyball league, 4) marketing new and existing opportunities, and 5) purchasing and placing signage on historical walking tour. To the right of the box labeled “Later Activities” there are three more boxes: “Short-term Outcomes,” “Mid-term Outcomes,” and “Long-term Outcomes.” The box labeled “Short-term Outcomes” includes “increased awareness of physical activity opportunities.” The box labeled “Mid-term Outcomes” includes “increased participation in water aerobics and swimming, volleyball, and walking tour of historical sites.” The box labeled “Long-term Outcomes” includes 1) walking in town more normative, 2) increased social support for physical activity, 3) increased levels of physical activity among target population, and 4) decreased HbA1c. This box leads to the box below labeled “Goal,” which is “better prevention and control of diabetes in the community.”

A box above this row of boxes lists factors that influence the program’s success, such as politics, other initiatives, socioeconomic factors, staff turnover within each partner site, social norms and conditions, program history, or stage of development. This box has arrows that point down to the boxes in the row described above, indicating that external factors affect every stage of the intervention and its outcomes.

Figure. Example of a logic model for creating or enhancing access to physical activity (PA) combined with informational outreach activities.

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