Equity‐specific effects of interventions to promote physical activity: The application of a newly developed re‐analysis strategy

Purpose Interventions to promote physical activity (PA) may unintentionally increase health inequalities. Thus, equity-specific intervention effects should be analyzed. Our previous systematic review, however, found that the potential for analyzing equity-specific intervention effects has not yet been fully exploited. This study tried out a newly developed re-analysis strategy for analyzing equity-specific effects of PA interventions. Methods The re-analysis strategy was tried out in a collaboration of a convenience sample of 8 European PA intervention studies in adults aged ≥45 years. Criteria for harmonizing 1…