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Professor Mark Stoutenberg's Outputs (14)

Assessing the physical activity training needs and preferences of community health workers in South Africa (2025)
Journal Article
Stoutenberg, M., Esquives, B. S. N., St Fleur, R. G., Koen, S. S., Watson, E. D., Portacio, F. G., & Torres, G. (2025). Assessing the physical activity training needs and preferences of community health workers in South Africa. BMC Public Health, 25(1), Article 120. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-21352-z

Background: Emerging work highlights the potential of community health workers (CHWs) to promote physical activity (PA) as a part of their role in preventing and managing non-communicable diseases. However, little is known about CHW preferences and d... Read More about Assessing the physical activity training needs and preferences of community health workers in South Africa.

Implementing and evaluating the comprehensive integration of physical activity into a major health system: study design and protocol (2025)
Journal Article
Stoutenberg, M., Estabrooks, P. A., Brooks, J. M., Jindal, M., Wichman, C., Rosemeyer, J., Schumacher, L. M., McNulty, L. K., Ewing, A., Eskuri, S., Bennett, F., & Trilk, J. L. (2025). Implementing and evaluating the comprehensive integration of physical activity into a major health system: study design and protocol. BMJ Open, 15(1), Article e091556. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-091556

Introduction:
The healthcare sector has great potential for promoting physical activity (PA) for chronic disease prevention, treatment and management; however, multiple adoption and implementation barriers exist, ranging from practice integration t... Read More about Implementing and evaluating the comprehensive integration of physical activity into a major health system: study design and protocol.

Factors Influencing Patient Enrollment in a Community-based Physical Activity Program After Healthcare Provider Referral: A Mixed Methods Study (2024)
Journal Article
Schumacher, L. M., Trilk, J. L., McNulty, L. K., Ylitalo, K. R., Eskuri, S., Brooks, J. M., Estabrooks, P. A., Jindal, M., & Stoutenberg, M. (2024). Factors Influencing Patient Enrollment in a Community-based Physical Activity Program After Healthcare Provider Referral: A Mixed Methods Study. Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 15, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/21501319241306710

Introduction and Objectives:
Structured physical activity (PA) programs help to prevent and manage chronic diseases, yet systematic approaches to identify and enroll patients in these programs are lacking. Exercise is Medicine Greenville (EIMG) is a... Read More about Factors Influencing Patient Enrollment in a Community-based Physical Activity Program After Healthcare Provider Referral: A Mixed Methods Study.

Assessing older adult physical activity levels in clinical settings: The modified PAVS for older adults. (2024)
Journal Article
Stoutenberg, M., Rogers, M., Denison, P., Schlicht, J., Weitzel, K., Ory, M., Kellar, G., Summers, L., & Wingood, M. (online). Assessing older adult physical activity levels in clinical settings: The modified PAVS for older adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.19202

Participating in recommended levels of physical activity (PA) is critical for preventing functional decline, falls, and frailty, making it essential to identify older adults not meeting national PA guidelines. However, guidance on assessing older adu... Read More about Assessing older adult physical activity levels in clinical settings: The modified PAVS for older adults..

S14 Physical activity promotion in healthcare settings: Designing and implementing physical activity referral schemes (2024)
Journal Article
Geidl, W., & Stoutenberg, M. (2024). S14 Physical activity promotion in healthcare settings: Designing and implementing physical activity referral schemes. European Journal of Public Health, 34(Supplement_2), Article ckae114.259. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae114.259

Purpose: This symposium will share findings, expertise and experiences from different countries on the design and implementation of physical activity referral schemes (PARS). Description: Physical activity promotion by healthcare professionals is a k... Read More about S14 Physical activity promotion in healthcare settings: Designing and implementing physical activity referral schemes.

S14-3: The adoption and implementation of a physical activity referral pathway integrated into a major U.S. health system (2024)
Journal Article
Stoutenberg, M. (2024). S14-3: The adoption and implementation of a physical activity referral pathway integrated into a major U.S. health system. European Journal of Public Health, 34(Supplement_2), Article ckae114.262. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae114.262

Background: Regular physical activity (PA) is highly effective in improving mental, physical, and emotional health; yet, health systems experience challenges integrating PA referral pathways connecting eligible patients to health-enhancing PA resourc... Read More about S14-3: The adoption and implementation of a physical activity referral pathway integrated into a major U.S. health system.

Physical activity vital sign assessment and associated health outcomes in an underserved South African community (2024)
Journal Article
Gradidge, P. J.-L., Crouch, S. H., Thornton, J., Matsena Zingoni, Z., Torres, G., Stoutenberg, M., Kolkenbeck-Ruh, A., Woodiwiss, A. J., Mhlaba, M., & Ware, L. J. (online). Physical activity vital sign assessment and associated health outcomes in an underserved South African community. Journal of Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-024-02292-1

Background
Physical activity is particularly low in South Africa and contributes to chronic conditions. This study aimed to determine physical activity levels in a South African community, using the physical activity vital sign (PAVS), and identify... Read More about Physical activity vital sign assessment and associated health outcomes in an underserved South African community.

Physical Activity with Sports Scientist (PASS) programme to promote physical activity among patients with non-communicable diseases: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial protocol. (2024)
Journal Article
Wattanapisit, A., Hemarachatanon, P., Somrak, K., Manunyanon, S., Wattanapisit, S., Amornsriwatanakul, A., …Stoutenberg, M. (2024). Physical Activity with Sports Scientist (PASS) programme to promote physical activity among patients with non-communicable diseases: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial protocol. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 10(2), Article e001985. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2024-001985

Physical activity (PA) effectively prevents and treats non-communicable diseases in clinical settings. PA promotion needs to be more consistent, especially in busy primary care. Sports scientists have the potential to support PA promotion in primary... Read More about Physical Activity with Sports Scientist (PASS) programme to promote physical activity among patients with non-communicable diseases: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial protocol..

Exercise as Medicine for People with a Substance Use Disorder: An ACSM Call to Action Statement (2024)
Journal Article
Nock, N. L., Stoutenberg, M., Cook, D. B., Whitworth, J. W., Janke, E. A., & Gordon, A. J. (2024). Exercise as Medicine for People with a Substance Use Disorder: An ACSM Call to Action Statement. Current Sports Medicine Reports, 23(2), 53-57. https://doi.org/10.1249/jsr.0000000000001140

Over 20 million Americans are living with a substance use disorder (SUD) and nearly 100,000 die annually from drug overdoses, with a majority involving an opioid. Many people with SUD have co-occurring chronic pain and/or a mental health disorder. Ex... Read More about Exercise as Medicine for People with a Substance Use Disorder: An ACSM Call to Action Statement.

Examining the referral of patients with elevated blood pressure to health resources in an under-resourced community in South Africa (2024)
Journal Article
McNulty, L. K., Stoutenberg, M., Kolkenbeck-Ruh, A., Harrison, A., Mmoledi, T., Katiyo, D., …Ware, L. J. (2024). Examining the referral of patients with elevated blood pressure to health resources in an under-resourced community in South Africa. BMC Public Health, 24(1), Article 412. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-17359-z

Background
Low-and-middle income countries face a disproportionate burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) that threaten to overwhelm under-resourced health systems. Community health workers (CHWs) can promote NCD prevention, reach patients, and... Read More about Examining the referral of patients with elevated blood pressure to health resources in an under-resourced community in South Africa.

Acceptability and feasibility of home-based hypertension and physical activity screening by community health workers in an under-resourced community in South Africa (2023)
Journal Article
Stoutenberg, M., Crouch, S. H., McNulty, L. K., Kolkenbeck-Ruh, A., Torres, G., Gradidge, P. J. L., Ly, A., & Ware, L. J. (2023). Acceptability and feasibility of home-based hypertension and physical activity screening by community health workers in an under-resourced community in South Africa. Journal of Public Health, 32(6), 1011-1022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-023-01873-w

Background
Low–middle-income countries (LMICs) face increasing burdens from non-communicable disease (NCDs) requiring primary care task shifting to community health workers (CHWs). This study explored community members' perceptions of NCD-focused, C... Read More about Acceptability and feasibility of home-based hypertension and physical activity screening by community health workers in an under-resourced community in South Africa.