Table 6.
Settings and Locations of recruitment, study and populations
| Study Author (Year) | Stated Study setting | Target population | Where did the Recruitment take place? | Intervention delivery site | Where Participants came from | Quality Metric Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| l. Watson et al, 2005 | Community | Post-natal mothers | Home, health centre visits, at mothers group meetings | Community via lead walks | Mothers using community health centres or early childhood health centres or mothers visited by local childcare nurses | 5 |
| 2. Banks-Wallace et al, 2004 | Community Setting: African American (AA) | African American women in a local community (Minority group) | In the community at venues typically used for hosting African American community events | Local community venue used for hosting AA community events | African American Community | 4 |
| 3. Kolt et al, 2006 | Community | Older sedentary adults (> 65) | By mail and a follow up home visit | By phone and a home visit at screening (Community) | GP Patient lists | 4 |
| 4. Nguyen et al, 2002 | Community | General community | Mainly passively in the community but also used press conferences and info/taster sessions | Community | 4 | |
| 5. Prestwich et al, 2010 | University | University students | University | University | University students | 4 |
| 6. Rowland et al, 2004 | Community | Sedentary older adults | Via telephone, direct mail and then at multiple locations and media in the community | At home | Community members identified through a commercial database of household data | 4 |
| 7. Sherman et al, 2006 | Community (Rural) | Rural women | In a clinic, hair salons-and food establishments | Clinical centre | Residents in the local community | 4 |
| 8. Wilbur et al, 2006 | Community and Home | African American Women | Two federally qualified community health centres serving poor and working class urban populations. Screening and data collection was carried out here to reduce power differences (perceived) and increase trust. Concentrated on an area within a 3-mile radius of the data collection sites. Also interacted in the community at health fairs and presentations. | Community health centres. Purposely chosen to reduce power differences and increase trust. Within three miles of the participants residential area | Predominantly African American women within a 3-mile radius of the intervention centre | 4 |
| 9. Baker et al, 2008b | Community | Community members in areas of high deprivation (> 15% SIMD) | Local community, GP surgeries, shops, community stalls | University campus | Residents within a surrounding area of West Glasgow university (1.5 km)-defined as a suitable walking distance from intervention site | 3 |
| 10. Brownson et al 2005 | Community (Rural USA) | Rural community members | Through media, at physicians practices, at community centres, on walking routes, in the community active and passively | Community | Within targeted community | 3 |
| 11. Cox et al, 2008 | Community | Previously sedentary older women | Ads delivered in the community. Screening took place at the community centre | Community centre | Recruited from the community' | 3 |
| 12. Dinger et al, 2007 | University | Insufficiently active women (University staff and local community members) | Local media and electronically | Intervention delivered by email (Virtual) | University staff and local community | 3 |
| 13. Dubbert et al, 2002 | Care setting (Veterans Affairs Medical Centre) | Elderly primary care patients | By mail, phone and at the clinic | Medical centre | Attendees at a Veterans Affairs Medical centre | 3 |
| 14. Dubbert et al, 2008 | Care setting | Elderly veterans | Primary care medical centre as part of routine care | Primary care clinic | Primary care clinics for veterans | 3 |
| 15. Gilson et al, 2008 | Workplace (University) | Work-place employees | Via work email | University | University employees | 3 |
| 16. Jancey et al, 2008 | Community | Older adults | Over the phone to home phone numbers | Selected green space areas within the neighbourhood local to the recruited participants | Urban areas of Perth, identified through electoral roll | 3 |
| 17. Lamb et al, 2002 | Care (Primary care) | Middle aged adults | Via post, phone and info sessions at primary care setting | Primary care facilities | Primary care client list | 3 |
| 18. Lee et al, 1997 | Community | Sedentary ethnic minority women | Directly and indirectly in the community | Baseline screening at a University, then indirectly delivered to participants homes | Members of women, children and infant groups, local area San Diego | 3 |
| 19. Matthews et al, 2007 | Care: Clinical and Home (Community) setting | Breast cancer survivors | Clinic | Clinical centres | Former or existing clinical populations | 3 |
| 20. Merom et al, 2007 | Community | Inactive adults | Passively in the community and actively by phone via another study | This was a passively delivered intervention and participants received intervention material and equipment entirely by post. | Non-clinical sample of individuals in the community | 3 |
| 21. Ornes and Ransdell, 2007 | University | Women | University campus | University | University | 3 |
| 22. Richardson et al, 2007 | Care: Clinical | Adults with type 2 diabetes | Medical centre | Clinical centre | Adults with diabetes living in the community | 3 |
| 23. Rosenberg et al, 2009 | Care setting (Retirement community) | Older adults | Care community | Continuing care retirement community | Residential care facility | 3 |
| 24. Whitt-Glover et al, 2008 | Churches | Black adult, church attendees | University and Local Community | Church meeting rooms | Church groups | 3 |
| 25. Arbour & Ginis, 2009 | Workplace | Women in the workplace | University campus | Workplace (University) | University | 2 |
| 26. Culos-Reed et al, 2008 | Community: Malls | NS | In the community and at the malls | Mall | Mall users from the local community | 2 |
| 27. Currie and Develin, 2001 | Community | Mothers and young children | Places where pre and post natal mums engage with health care, shopping and school | Community | NS | 2 |
| 28. Darker et al, 2010 | Clinical lab setting | NS | In the local media (Passive) | Laboratory | NS | 2 |
| 29. De Cocker et al 2007 | Community | 'General population' adults in a local community | By mail or phone to participants homes. Indirect but active | In the community with contact via phone and mail for pedometer packs | General population members as listed on the population register | 2 |
| 30. Dinger et al, 2005 | University | Female employees or spouses of university employees | University | University campus | University staff and spouses | 2 |
| 31. Engel and Lindner, 2006 | Community | Adults with type 2 diabetes | In community via newspapers | At research institute or at home | Local Community | 2 |
| 32. Foreman et al, 2001 | Community | Community members | NS | NS | NS | 2 |
| 33. Humpel et al, 2004 | Community | Over 40 year old community members | Via post. No face to face | No face to face contact, but participants encouraged to walk in their local area | Insurance company client list | 2 |
| 34. Nies et al, 2006 | Community | European American and African America women. | Through media and fliers in the community | NS | NS | 2 |
| 35. Purath et al, 2004 | Workplace (University) | Women in the workplace | Health screening day within a university | University | Staff attending a voluntary university provided health screening as part of a wellness programme | 2 |
| 36. Shaw et al, 2007 | Workplace (Health Centre staff) | Men and women in the workplace | Workplace (Health centre) | Workplace (Urban workplace) | Health Centre staff | 2 |
| 37. Sidman et al, 2004 | University (Seems Uni) | Sedentary women | Two University campuses | NS | NS (Recruited on Uni campus) | 2 |
| 38. Thomas and Williams, 2006 | Workplace | Workplace staff (Excluding hospital and community services staff) | Workplace (Electronically) | NS | Workplace staff (Dept. of Human Services staff) | 2 |
| 39. Tudor-Locke et al, 2002 | Health centre | Sedentary diabetes sufferers | Diabetes Centre | Diabetes care centre | Diabetes care centre | 2 |
| 40. Baker et al, 2008a | University | NS | At churches | University campus | University campus | 1 |
| 41. Hultquist et al, 2005 | University | NS | University | University | University campus | 1 |
| 42. Lomabrd et al, 1995 | University | NS | University campus | University | University staff | 1 |
| 43. DNSWH, 2002 | Community | NS | In local area via media and advertising and information | Community | Residents of local community | 1 |
| 44. Rovniak, 2005 | Community | NS | At multiple locations in the community. Mainly passive. | NS | NS (Seems community) | 1 |
| 45. Rowley et al, 2007 | Community | Parents and children | NS | In the community along planned walking routes in and out of parks/green spaces | Affluent community in semi-rural England' | 1 |
| 46. Talbot et al, 2003 | Community (Home) | Older adults | Senior centres, ads in local newspapers | University clinic | Local Community | 1 |
| 47. Wyatt et al, 2004 | Community | State wide residents of the community | NS | Worksite and Church via a starter kit | Workplaces and church | 1 |