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10,000 Steps Ghent

Also: 10 000 Steps Flanders

Community-wide pedometer and media campaign in Ghent, Belgium (2005-2006), adapted from Australia's 10,000 Steps Rockhampton. It encouraged adults to walk 10,000 steps a day and was later rolled out across Flanders.

Years
2005–2006
Country
Belgium
Topic
Physical activity
Asks people to
Start
Strategy
Multi level communitySimple instruction
Channel
EventsOutdoorPrint
Audience
Adults

Evidence

Quasi-experimentalMixed

Intervention vs comparison city (De Cocker 2011): daily steps rose in Ghent after the first year. At 4 years, Ghent participants had held their step counts while the comparison city declined (time x community P=0.008), but the first-year gains were not kept. The program looked cost-effective.

Sponsor (who paid)

  • Ghent University Academic, developer and evaluator
  • City of Ghent Foreign government, partner

Credits (who made it)

Not recorded yet.

Sources

  1. De Cocker KA et al. Four-year follow-up of the community intervention '10,000 steps Ghent'. Health Educ Res 2011;26(2):372-80 evaluation · 2011 · DOI 10.1093/her/cyr015 · PMID 21393377
  2. De Smedt D et al. A cost-effectiveness study of the community-based intervention '10 000 Steps Ghent'. Public Health Nutr 2012;15(3):442-51 evaluation · 2012 · DOI 10.1017/S1368980011001716 · PMID 21859505
  3. Dubuy V et al. '10 000 Steps Flanders': evaluation of the state-wide dissemination of a physical activity intervention in Flanders. Health Educ Res 2013;28(3):546-51 evaluation · 2013 · DOI 10.1093/her/cyt039 · PMID 23503570
  4. De Cocker KA et al. Effects of '10,000 steps Ghent': a whole-community intervention. Am J Prev Med 2007 evaluation · 2007 · DOI 10.1016/j.amepre.2007.07.037 · PMID 18022061
  5. De Cocker K et al. Moderators and mediators of pedometer use and step count increase in the '10,000 Steps Ghent' intervention. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 2009 evaluation · 2009 · DOI 10.1186/1479-5868-6-3 · PMID 19138399

Research notes

Created 2026-10-22 by literature mining (PubMed/OpenAlex); evidence level, outcome and findings are paraphrased from the evaluation abstracts, full texts not read. No credits: no page naming an agency was checked. Partner roles from secondary memory; confirm. Evaluation sources added 2026-10-22 (citation snowballing / helpline pass): De Cocker 2007, De Cocker 2009; evidence level and outcome unchanged.

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