Physical Activity
nutrition icon The Healthy Hawai‘i Evaluation Team provides evaluation services and support for physical activity-related projects that aim to increase physical activity and active living.
HHET evaluation work focuses on physical activity-related policies, systems, and environmental changes that relate to three main priority populations:
- Keiki and Youth: 0-18 years old
- Kupuna: 65 years and older
- Low-income: gross household income at or below 185% of federal poverty level
Physical activity evaluation projects cover a range of topic areas such as pedestrian safety, active transportation, built environment, physical education in schools, and observational assessments of physical activity. Evaluation projects are conducted across the four primary sectors of Community Design and Access, Education, Health Care, and Worksite.
Featured Project
Public health framing in local media coverage of crashes involving pedestrians or bicyclists in Hawai‘i
- Keliikoa, L. B., Thompson, M. D., Johnson, C. J., Cacal, S. L., Pirkle, C. M., & Sentell, T. L. (2022). Public health framing in local media coverage of crashes involving pedestrians or bicyclists in Hawai ‘i, 2019: A content analysis. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 13, 100525. (Article)
- Keliikoa, L. B., Packard, M. Y., Hansen Smith, H., Kim, I. N., Akasaki, K. A., & Stupplebeen, D. A. (2018). Evaluation of a community wayfinding signage project in Hawai‘i: perspectives of pedestrians and bicyclists. Journal of Transport & Health, 11, 25–33. (Article)
- Rodericks, R., Vu, U., Holmes, J. R., Ryan, J., Sentell, T., & Saka, S. (2018). Insights in Public Health: Data Highlights from the Hawai'i Youth Risk Behavior Survey: Links Between Academic Achievement and Health Behaviors. Hawai'i Journal of Medicine & Public Health, 77(11), 297–304. (Article)
- Mixed Methods Evaluation of the 2023 OahuMPO Project Management Training Program Mobile Workshop (Summary)
- Hawai‘i Quick-Builds Projects: Lessons Learned about Community Engagement (Summary)
- Public Health Framing in Local Media Coverage of Crashes Involving Pedestrians or Bicyclists in Hawai‘i, 2019: A content analysis (Summary)
- Early Childhood Care and Education (ECE) Evaluation Project (Summary)
- Safety and Wellness Survey (SAWS) Validation Project (Summary)
- Early Childhood Care and Education (ECE) Technical Assistance and Preparation for a New Online Survey (Summary)
- School Wellness Policy Evaluation (Summary)
- Developing Wellness Guidelines for Nutrition and Physical Activity in Hawaiʻi’s Early Care and Education Settings (Summary) (Wellness Guidelines)
- Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Community Coalitions - Built Environment & Physical Activity Data Briefs (Summary Hawaiʻi County) (Summary Maui County) (Summary Kauai County)
- Evaluation of the Kailua Wayfinding Signage Demonstration Project (Summary)
- Sentell, T., Wu, Y., Look, M., Gellert, K., Lowery St. John, T., Ching, L., Lee, R., & Pirkle, C. (January 2021). Hula and outrigger canoe paddling in the behavioral risk factor surveillance system in Hawai‘i [Poster presentation]. Virtual, 24th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion (Poster).
- Keliikoa, L.B., McGurk, M., Stupplebeen, D.A., Braden, K., Pirkle, C., & Sentell, T. The word on the street: Lessons learned from using intercept surveys to evaluate environmental change interventions promoting physical activity and nutrition. Oral presentation at the 33rd Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association, Minneapolis, MN. November, 2019. (Summary)
- Peck K, Keliikoa LB, Pirkle CM, & Sentell TL. Leisure Time Physical Activity Preferences in Hawaiʻi Across Diverse Racial/Ethnic Groups. Poster presentation. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA, November 2019. (Summary)
- McGurk M, Vu ND, Cacal S, Pirkle CM, Sentell T. Characteristics of Soccer Players in the US in 2011-2017 and Injury-Risk Health Equity Implications. Poster Presentation. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Expo. Philadelphia, PA. November 2019. (Summary)
- Vu ND, Pirkle CM, Choy L, McGurk M, Stupplebeen D, Kim I, Sentell T. Physical Activity and Inactivity Among Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo; San Diego, CA. November 2018. (Summary)
Note: HHET members at the time of project participation are listed in bold.