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Built Environment Approaches to Physical Activity: Testing Community-Driven Implementation Strategies

Project Description

The goal of the project was to pilot test implementation strategies designed to support Montana State University Extension (MSUE) Agents with implementing built environment approaches. Built environment approaches make it safer and easier for people across the life span to walk, bicycle, or wheelchair roll, and mitigate barriers to physical activity by making the healthy choice the default choice. 

The first aim of the project was to use an integrated research-practice partnership approach to engage Extension professionals in selecting and tailoring implementation strategies through a series of collaborative decision-making sessions. This resulted in three implementation strategies: technical assistance, funding support, and a guidebook.   

Access our guidebook here. 

The second aim of the project was to use the expanded RE-AIM (reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, maintenance) framework to assess Extension Agents’ adoption of built environment approaches (primary outcome) and implementation strategy reach, specifications, cost, and adaptations.  

Implementation Strategies

Here are our findings:

For more information, email Shelly Palmer.

This research was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R21CA280503. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.