Crime, perceived safety, and physical activity: A meta-analysis

A population-based study of the associations between neighbourhood walkability and different types of physical activity in Canadian men and women

“…Presumably, lack of parking at shopping areas could encourage people to walk to local shopping areas rather than travel by motor vehicle. In contrast to previous studies (Bergman et al, 2009;Brownson et al, 2001;Rees-Punia et al, 2018;Sugiyama et al, 2014;Van Dyck et al, 2015), we found that crime safety, hilliness, and physical barriers were associated with higher odds of participation or higher weekly minutes of physical activity. Previous physical activity-built environment research has suggested that there is a mismatch between perceptions of the built environment and actual built environment features (Arvidsson et al, 2012;Gebel et al, 2009).…”

“…Congruent with our findings, previous studies have found associations between walkability subscales and participation and duration in TW, LW, as well as moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (Adlakha et al, 2018;Brownson et al, 2001;Cerin et al, 2014;Cerin et al, 2007;Ding et al, 2013;Evenson et al, 2012;Hoehner et al, 2005;Jáuregui et al, 2016;Jáuregui et al, 2017;Kamada et al, 2009;Kerr et al, 2016;Malambo et al, 2017;Rees-Punia et al, 2018;Sugiyama et al, 2014;Van Dyck et al, 2012;Van Dyck et al, 2013;Zhou et al, 2013). Similarly, this previous research suggests certain walkability subscales are consistently associated with participation or time spent in TW, namely residential density, land use mix diversity, land use mix access, and aesthetics (Hoehner et al, 2005;Kerr et al, 2016;Malambo et al, 2017;Van Dyck et al, 2012).…”

Cognitive resources moderate the adverse impact of poor perceived neighborhood conditions on self-reported physical activity of older adults

“…A strong body of evidence supports the facet of socio-ecological frameworks linking PA with environmental factors. Previous studies showed that individuals surrounded by safe areas with well-maintained facilities with public spaces for walking, cycling, and other physical activities are more likely to be physically active than individuals living in a neighborhood without such facilities and spaces (Chastin et al, 2015;Rees-Punia et al, 2018;Van Cauwenberg et al, 2011). However, most relevant research adopting a socio-ecological framework is cross-sectional (Piro et al, 2006;Sallis et al, 2018;Smith et al, 2019;Van Cauwenberg et al, 2014), with only a handful set of longitudinal studies available (Lee et al, 2009;Li et al, 2005;Michael et al, 2010;Xiao et al, 2018), thereby preventing the assessment of contextual factors that may explain PA dynamics (Rebar and Rhodes, 2019).…”

The Influence of the Objective and Subjective Physical Neighbourhood Environment on the Physical Activity of Older Adults: A Case Study in the Malaysian Neighbourhoods of Johor Bahru

“…A low perception of safety from crime would logically mean people perceive a low crime rate level and felt safe in their housing vicinity, which would logically result in a higher PA level [38]. Interestingly, a low safety from crime perception was observed when adults showed a PA of C1 whereas a medium safety from crime perception was observed among adults who showed C2.…”

“…This scale was considered suitable as many past studies in diverse settings have established a connection between perceived PNE and PA in older adults [26][27][28][29][30][31]. Past studies have also found that perceived PNE (PNES) measures such as perceived residential density [13,27,32], land use diversity [13,27,[32][33][34], accessibility [13,32,34,35], street connectivity [13,32], infrastructure for walking and cycling [34,36], neighbourhood aesthetics [13,32,37], safety from traffic hazards [30,32,34,37] and safety from crime [30,34,37,38] were significantly associated with PA. In addition, single-question item PNES measures such as lack of parking [39], lack of cul-de-sacs, hilliness and physical barriers have also been found to have a significant association with PA in older adults.…”