Table 1.
Examples of Strategies to Enhance Cultural Relevance of Physical Activity Intervention Research
| Category | Theme | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Research team members | Underrepresented group member researchers | Underrepresented member principal/co-investigator |
| Underrepresented group member staff | Underrepresented group member project staff as recruiters, interventionists, and data collectors | |
| Recruiting or training culturally competent staff | ||
| Church members as interventionists | ||
| Methodology features | Recruitment | Recruitment through churches, health care facilities, schools, businesses, community events, worksites, |
| Recruit via target audience mass media | ||
| Use of recruiter from underrepresented group | ||
| Recruitment by church staff or members | ||
| Involve group members in designing recruitment | ||
| Study location | Target population community centers or businesses | |
| Intended participant churches or schools | ||
| Measures | Measures in appropriate language | |
| Measures administered by underrepresented staff | ||
| Cost awareness | Provide childcare | |
| Conduct study in participants’ neighborhood | ||
| Study site near subway or bus station | ||
| Provide transportation costs | ||
| Interventions | Input from members to design interventions | Advisory council or groups |
| Focus groups | ||
| Survey members | ||
| Intervention materials reviewed by underrepresented advisers | ||
| Underrepresented group member-linked values | Families and social interactions | |
| Interrelationships among physical, spiritual, and psychological health | ||
| Convey information valuing experience and intuition | ||
| Use group concepts, stories, metaphors | ||
| Language and literacy issues | Interventions and measures in participants’ language | |
| Project personnel speak participants’ language | ||
| Reduce reading level of project materials | ||
| Use graphical project materials over written text | ||
| Media | Target group specific celebrities, role models, and well-known personalities | |
| Target group articles from group publications | ||
| PA form | Group-linked exercise forms such as dance | |
| Underrepresented group linked barriers to PA | Address family responsibilities as a barrier to PA | |
| Address fatalism as a barrier to PA | ||
| Address self-esteem as a barrier to PA |