Perceptions about the local neighborhood and walking and cycling among children

Timperio, Anna; Crawford, David; Telford, Amanda; Salmon, Jo

doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2003.09.026

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“…(8, 45) An explanation for this may be that the outdoor activities reported by the child did not occur in the child’s neighborhood, but rather in another setting. In the measure used to assess child outdoor activity, the setting in which the outdoor activities took place was not considered, which may in part explain our null finding.…”

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“…Fourth, previous research has suggested that the influences of the neighborhood environment on PA behaviors may be different for males and females. (7, 45) In this study, the inability to fit the structural equation model for males and females separately resulted in the analysis of a combined model. As such, we were unable to speculate on any potential differences in the influence of the neighborhood environment on PA between males and females.…”

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Perceptions of the Neighborhood Environment and Children’s Afterschool Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity

McDonald

Dowda

Colabianchi

et al. 2015

Pediatric Exercise Science

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Previous research suggests the neighborhood environment may be an important influence on children’s physical activity (PA) behaviors; however, findings are inconsistent. The purpose of this study was to further understand the relationship between perceptions of the neighborhood environment and children’s afterschool moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA). Utilizing a structural equation modeling technique, we tested a conceptual model linking parent and child perceptions of the neighborhood environment, parent support for PA, and child outdoor PA with children’s afterschool MVPA. We found that child perception of the neighborhood environment and outdoor PA were positively associated with afterschool MVPA. In addition, parent support for PA positively influenced children’s outdoor PA. The neighborhood environment and outdoor activity appear to play an influential role on children’s afterschool PA behaviors.

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Perceptions of the Neighborhood Environment and Children’s Afterschool Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity

McDonald

Dowda

Colabianchi

et al. 2015

Pediatric Exercise Science

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“…As far as we are aware, few studies similar to this have been published. Other studies on this topic were concerned with older children (Hume et al 2005;Evenson et al, 2006;Santos et al, 2009;Singh et al, 2010;Rodríguez et al, 2012) or, if concerned with younger children, no gender distinctions were found (Timperio et al, 2004(Timperio et al, , 2005Burdette et al, 2003;Carver et al, 2010). Only some studies considering adolescents have pointed to a sex-specific influence of neighborhood features on physical activity behaviors.…”

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“…Some studies suggest that built and social environmental factors underlie this trend because these factors make it easy to take in excessive calories and/or discourage the expenditure of energy in daily life (Giles-Corti and Donovan, 2003, Portinga, 2006, Singh et al, 2010). Children's eating habits and physical activity behaviors are influenced by neighborhood features, including the following ones: access to healthy foods (Zenk and Powell, 2008); availability of parks, playgrounds and other recreational facilities (Burdette and Whitaker, 2003;Cradock et al, 2005;Brockman et al, 2010); access to public transportation; pedestrian and cycling conditions (Timperio et al, 2004;Pont et al, 2009); and crime rates (Burdette and Whitaker, 2003;Carver et al, 2010). Furthermore, when analyzing how environmental factors cause impact on the different genders, previous studies have highlighted the emergence of a sexspecific pattern of environmental influences.…”

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Perceptions of neighborhood environments and childhood obesity: Evidence of harmful gender inequities among Portuguese children

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This study investigates the links between parents' perceptions of their social and built residential environment and obesity among Portuguese school boys and girls. A total of 1885 children, 952 girls and 933 boys, aged 3.0-10.0 years, were observed. The children's weight and height were measured, and their parents filled out the "Environmental Module" questionnaire of the International Physical Activity Prevalence Study. Age and sex-specific BMI cut-off points were used to define being overweight/obese. Environmental characteristics were combined into 2 composite neighborhood indices that were used as predictors in logistic regression models. Girls living in neighborhoods perceived as having poorly built environmental conditions had increased odds of being obese (OR = 1.47; p<0.005), and girls living in neighborhoods perceived as being unsafe and dangerous had also increased odds of being obese (OR = 1.339; p<0.005). These relationships were not evident for boys.Improvements in the neighborhood environment could be a strategy for tackling the growing epidemic of childhood obesity and can simultaneously contribute to reduce health iniquities across population subgroups. HighlightsWe analyzed the links between environmental perceptions and obesity in boys and girls.We found associations between a poorly social (OR=1.339) and built (OR=1.47) environment and obesity in girls.Girls are more obese, more sedentary, and more influenced by the environment than boys.Differences can reflect perverse, harmful gender inequities in environmental adequacy.

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“…It has been argued that the specific perception of the neighborhood may discourage (Timperio et al 2004) or stimulate 370 (Santos et al 2009) children's outdoor activities. These findings are in line with the outdoor time being shorter in urban than in rural areas of Germany in GerES IV.…”

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The German Environmental Survey for Children (GerES IV): Reference values and distributions for time-location patterns of German children

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Seiwert

Hünken

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International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health

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Adolescents (KiGGS).Parents reported on the time their children usually spend at home, in other indoor environments, and outdoors. This information was characterized by statistical parameters, which were also calculated for different 40 strata concerning socio-demography and the residential environment. Consequently, group differences were evaluated by t-tests and univariate ANOVA. Reference distributions were fitted to the time-location data by a Maximum Likelihood approach to make them also useable in probabilistic exposure modeling. Finally, associations between data on the children's physical activity as well as body weight and their outdoor time were investigated by bivariate correlation analysis and cross tabulation. 55GerES IV provides a compilation of current time-location reference values and distributions on German children. This data hint to substantial differences in time-location patterns within the population to be considered in environmental health risk assessment.

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Perceptions about the local neighborhood and walking and cycling among children

Cited by 639 publications

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Perceptions of the Neighborhood Environment and Children’s Afterschool Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity

Perceptions of the Neighborhood Environment and Children’s Afterschool Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity

Perceptions of neighborhood environments and childhood obesity: Evidence of harmful gender inequities among Portuguese children

The German Environmental Survey for Children (GerES IV): Reference values and distributions for time-location patterns of German children

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