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Trial reportEthnicity & disease2017

Increasing Physical Activity in Black Women: Results from a Randomized Trial Conducted in Faith-Based Settings.

Melicia C Whitt-Glover, Moses V Goldmon, Ziya Gizlice, Marie Sillice, Lyndsey Hornbuckle, Daniel P Heil

Open access · bronzeAbstract readMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Ethnicity & disease, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Additive Benefits of Individual, Relational, and Community Factors on Physical- and Mental-Health Trajectories Among Black Americans.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025
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  4. A Faith-Integrated Physical Activity Intervention and Cardiometabolic Risk in African American Women.Translational journal of the American College of Sports Medicine · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Melicia C Whitt-GloverGramercy Research Group, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Moses V GoldmonDivision of Liberal Studies, Lane College, Jackson, Tennessee.
Ziya GizliceCenter for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Marie SilliceThe Miriam Hospital and Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
Lyndsey HornbuckleUniversity of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Daniel P HeilExercise Physiology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana.
Lane College · USMontana State University · USProvidence College · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USUniversity of Tennessee at Knoxville · USWinston-Salem State University · US

Funding

Washington University Center for Diabetes Translation Research P30DK092950 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Ross C Brownson, Debra Haire-Joshu · 2011 to 2026
$11.7M
"A Faith-Based Intervention to Increase Physical Activity Among Blacks"R01HL094580 · NHLBI · GRAMERCY RESEARCH GROUP, LLC · PI WHITT-GLOVER, MELICIA C · 2009 to 2013
$4.2M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL094580NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK092950
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objective: The Learning and Developing Individual Exercise Skills (L.A.D.I.E.S.) for a Better Life study compared a faith-integrated (FI) and a secular (SEC) intervention for increasing physical activity with a self-guided (SG) control group among African American women. Design/Setting/Participants: L.A.D.I.E.S. was a cluster randomized, controlled trial. Churches (n=31) were randomized and women within each church (n=12 - 15) received the same intervention. Interventions: FI and SEC participants received 24 group-based sessions, delivered over 10 months. SG participants received printed materials to review independently for 10 months. Participants were followed for 12-months post-intervention to assess long-term intervention impact. Main Outcome Measures: Data on participant characteristics, physical activity, and intervention-related constructs were collected at baseline, 10 months, and 22 months. Results: Intervention session attendance was greater for FI compared with SEC participants (15.7 + 5.7 vs 12.4 + 7.3 sessions, respectively, P<.01). After 10 months, FI and SEC participants significantly increased daily walking (+1,451 and +1,107 steps/day, respectively) compared with SG participants (-128 steps/day). Increases were maintained after 22 months in the FI group compared with the SG group (+1092 vs. +336 daily steps, P<.01). Between-group changes in accelerometer-assessed physical activity were not statistically significant at any time point. Conclusions: The FI intervention is a feasible strategy for short- and long-term increases in physical activity among African American women. Additional dissemination and evaluation of the strategy could be useful for reducing chronic disease in this high-risk population.

Indexed as

Black or African AmericanWomen's HealthAdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overChronic DiseaseExerciseFaith HealingFemaleHumansIncidenceMiddle AgedMotor ActivityUnited StatesYoung AdultBlackChurchFaithInterventionPhysical ActivityWomen

Identifiers

PMID29225442
PMCPMC5720951
OpenAlexW2774686878

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