StrongWomen Healthy Hearts Follow-Up Study

The StrongWomen Follow-Up Survey (SWFUS) aimed to gain an understanding of key factors related to the long-term maintenance of healthy eating and physical activity behaviors among midlife and older rural women, in order to help identify evidence-based intervention strategies to support sustainable lifestyle changes. Identification of key constructs informed the initial phase of survey development. We conducted a search to identify reliable and/or validated instruments that contained measures of interest. The final constructs included: program participation, health status, depression, perceived stress, sedentary time, general physical activity, walking, strength training, physical activity self-efficacy, physical activity social support, physical activity environments, fruit and vegetable food frequency, food insecurity, healthy eating self-efficacy, healthy eating social support, cooking behaviors, food production and preserving, food away from home, and food environments. 

*StrongWomen Healthy Hearts program is now known as StrongPeople Living Well.

Outcomes for this study can be found here: Long-term body weight maintenance among StrongWomen – Healthy Hearts program participants

Funding: National Institutes of Health