50K4Life is a worksite walking program designed for K-12 school staff in the El Paso area. This Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) is funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (5U01MD019289).
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Publications
Publications
Varpaei H, Buchholz S, Bhandari B, Gay JL, Carmignani K, Wang J, Kalyanaraman S, Sender J, Salinas J. (2026). Development and adaptation of bilingual health text message databases for health interventions in Hispanic communities: protocol for a scoping review. JMIR Research Protocols, 15:e86032 doi: 10.2196/86032 PMID: 42341294.
Salinas J, Lopez V, Gay JL, Buchholz S, Meza L, Juarez A, Robles EH, Sapargeldiyeva M, Parra-Medina D, & Yin Z. (In Press). An evaluation of the usability and feasibility of the 50K4Life mobile app for delivering walking challenges to public school administrative employees: beta testing study. JMIR Formative Research. Preprint available at http://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/80341
Salinas JJ, Buchholz SW, Yin Z, Gay JL, Rajbhandari-Thapa J, Wilson MG, Finley E, & Mulla Z. (2026). 50K4Life: A SMART study protocol to improve walking engagement in public school employees on the US-Mexico border. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 161, 108211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cct.2025.108211
Salinas, J, Valenzuela R, Sheen J, Carlyle M, Gay JL, Morales A. (2022). An ORBIT phase 1: design study of a citywide employer-based walking challenges in a predominantly Mexican American metropolitan area. Journal of Health Psychology, 27(4),961-73. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1359105320977650
Saadiq S, Valenzuela R, Wang J, Yin Z, Parra-Medina D, Gay J, Salinas JJ. (2021). Walking engagement in Mexican Americans who participated in a community-wide step challenge in El Paso, TX. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(23). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312738
Conference Presentations
Conference Presentations
Gay J, Finley E, Moss J, Buchholz S, Parra-Medina D, & Salinas J. (2026). Implementation monitoring of a worksite walking challenge, 50K4Life: pilot results and benchmarking for the future. Ann Behav Med, 60(1 Suppl), S133.
Muyna GY, Pal K, Lopez V, Sapargeldiyeva M, Buchholz S, Mulla Z, Thapa J, Gay J, Parra-Medina D, Yin Z, & Salinas J. (2026). Implementing a sequential multiple assignment walking intervention in schools: results from the 50K4Life pilot. Ann Behav Med, 60(1 Suppl), S631.
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