Table 1.
Characteristics of the studies included and areas of emphasis.
| References | Country/Continent | Infrastructural focus | Intervention program | Description of the group |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dill et al. (36) | United States/North America | Active transport | Bicycle paths were planned and built and compared to the control. | Six studies focus on the implementation of active transportation or commutation, whether understood as walking spaces, bicycle programs, or transportation interchange between bus and walking. Four of these studies focus on bicycle programs in the community environment to encourage the use of this form of transportation, focusing on commuting to work. And two of the subway system in which the use of non-escalators vs. escalators at station exits is encouraged with a cognitive program to encourage the use of escalators and the other on a new subway line measures the use of commutation transportation related to transportation to the subway line and distance to stations with the objective of encouraging physical activity. |
| Panter et al. (37) | United Kingdom/Europe | Active transport commute | A new transportation system was built in Cambridge between 2007 and 2011 19 kilometers of busway and bike/walking lanes and the commuter program was implemented. | |
| Goodman et al. (40) | United Kingdom/Europe | Active transport bicycling | 18 cities with bicycle programs were included for use of bicycles for commuting to work, school, bus and subway stations. | |
| Allais et al. (46) | France/Europe | Active transport Activity promotion | worked with three stations of the French subway to encourage the use of stairs, three experimental and control stations to see the change in the pattern of use of stairs. | |
| Sun et al. (51) | China/Asia | Active transport | A new metro line with 24 stations in a population that had no metro line and the change of habits in the type of transport was determined. | |
| Heinen et al. (60) | Australia/Oceania | Active transport | Based on the habitat cohort in which a program is designed in which we seek to look at changes in the pattern of transport with cycling and its effect on physical activity | |
| Simões et al. (41) | Brazil /South America | Active community cities | Academy program of city of Pernambuco Brazil with 184 cities that participated in the activity in three groups. | 4 studies carried out in urban environments at the community level, all different from each other but with the same perspective, which is the community work to promote physical activity, within the framework of the activity policy. |
| Nicosia and Datar (50) | United States/North America | Active community cities | Projected exercise and nutrition environment of military housing, measured days of physical activity with activity minutes and follow-up. | |
| Mölenberg et al. (52) | Holland/Europe | Active community cities | 18 new spaces in economically depressed sectors, in which spaces for the promotion of physical activity were created in Rotterdam. | |
| Sharma et al. (54) | United States/North America | Active community cities | Multicomponent healthy eating and physical activity program for pregnant women, the program promotes breastfeeding, nutrition and physical activity, community-based 6-week program | |
| Gesell et al. (38) | United States/North America | After School Program | After-school activity program with the department parks with its modified areas and spaces for physical activity at the community level. | 10 studies focused on educational environments, 9 in schools and 1 at the university level, all based on environmental social activities either inside or outside the educational environment but with the objective of promoting physical activity. Of the 10 school-based, 6 are associated with the curriculum and 4 are after school associated with summer programs or park activities. The program at the university level is focused on determining whether the distance between university dormitories to gyms and dining halls influences the level of physical activity of students. |
| Esdaile et al. (42) | Australia/Oceania | Intra-school School Program | Parent-led physical activity and nutrition program known as PEACH, which consists of a 90-min activity program for school children. | |
| Hunt et al. (44) | United States/North America | After-school program | First and second grade students were included in a 7-week summer learning and activity program. | |
| Lee et al. (45) | United States/North America | School infrastructure | Transfer of a group of students at a school outside a neighborhood to one with the school in the neighborhood and to see the change in behavior from sedentary to active and to the transport. | |
| Tarp et al. (48) | Denmark/Europe | Interschool school program | Effect of the multimodal CHAMPS (Childhood Health, Activity, and Motor Performance School study DK) program in an intervention group relative to the control group in response to presenting risk factors in 10 schools in Denmark. | |
| D'Agostino et al. (49) | United States/North America | After School Program | A 10-month after-school program called FIT2PLAY, generated for ethnic minorities in a Miami county. | |
| Kapinos et al. (53) | United States/North America | College program | To determine how proximity of dormitories to the gymnasium or dining areas or food courts influences freshmen college students' weight gain or sedentary behavior and obesogenic environment | |
| Madsen (55) | United States/North America | After school program | California fitness program evaluates the physical condition of children in grades 5–7th and 9th through the Fitness Gram. | |
| Stone et al. (58) | Canada /North America | In-school school program | The study takes place in Ontario's statewide policy of a minimum of 20 min per day of moderate and vigorous physical activity in school structure and schedules, 16 districts are involved | |
| Azevedo et al. (59) | United Kingdom/Europe | In-school school program | Dance mat program for students in grades 9–11 at the school level to see the effect on physical activity level, 16 mats and a driving unit were delivered to the schools to be used for 12 weeks. | |
| Torres et al. (35) | Colombia/Sur América | Parks and surrounding recreovia | Effect of physical activity in free time on participants in 9 parks in the capital district of Bogotá | Two programs focused on parks aimed at promoting physical activity with the development of physical activity classes in the free time in the participants in recreational areas, one uses the frozen roads to create trails for walking, measures the use of these and the activity physical activity developed in contrast the other works with the development of physical activity classes in the city and how this allows to modify the life habits of the populations |
| McGavock et al. (62) | Canada /North America | Parks and surrounding | Impact of a frozen pathway on the users' visits to estimate activity patterns Physical activity associated with the pathway in the winter in Canada. | |
| Zhu et al. (47) | China/Asia | Work environment | PA and sedentary behavior among the employees of a company in response to job modification, it is a two-arm experiment, one of intervention with modification of the job, adaptation of the chairs and desks. | 2 experiments, one from the Asian region and the other from Europe, both focus on physical activity at work, with adaptation of the spaces and the inclusion of adjustable desks and furniture that allow the practice of activity, or the switching of the type of transportation of the company to homes with adaptation of lanes and roads for the use of bicycles and walking. |
| Aittasalo et al. (57) | Finland/Europe | Work environment active transport | Two-arm natural experiment with two groups of companies in a two-phase socioecological model to determine the use of the bicycle or walking as a means of active transport. |