240
Participants
Start Date
September 3, 2025
Primary Completion Date
December 31, 2027
Study Completion Date
December 31, 2027
Fit and Strong
Procedure: During Years 3-5, participants will be recruited in waves through our standard recruitment practices to participate in Experiments 4A at the City of Chicago park sites. We will first prescreen them via telephone to verify that potential participants meet the inclusion criteria. F\&S! classes will be offered at two pre-determined Chicago park sites. Each of the two sites will host the 8-week-long program once in the spring and once in the fall for two years for a total of four F\&S! cycles at each center (totaling 8 F\&S! cohorts). Upon consenting to be in E4A, participants will be enrolled in F\&S! at the site closest to their home or the wait-list control. In the pre-intervention phase, participants both in F\&S! and on the waitlist will come to the lab at DePaul to complete the pre-intervention measurement batter. Within one week after baseline measurements, participants will attend F\&S! for 3 sessions a week for 8 weeks.
DePaul University, Chicago
DePaul University
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