Association between perceived neighbourhood characteristics, physical activity and diet quality: results of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil)

BMC Public Health

Research Article

Maria del Carmen Bisi Molina¹  Letícia Oliveira Cardoso²  Dóra Chor²  Maria de Jesus Mendes Fonseca²  Simone M. Santos²  Luana Giatti³  Débora de Pina Castiglione⁴  Isabela Bensenor⁵  Rosane Härter Griep⁶  Estela M. L. Aquino⁷  Aline Araújo Nobre⁸  Ana Diez-Roux⁹ 

[1] Departamento de Nutrição, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil;Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil;Escola de Nutrição, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, MG, Brazil;Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil;Hospital Universitário, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil;Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 21040–360, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil;Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil;Programa de Computação Científica, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil;School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA;

关键词: Neighbourhood;    Physical activity;    Diet;    Food environment;    Public health;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12889-016-3447-5

 received in 2015-06-19, accepted in 2016-08-05,  发布年份 2016

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe study explores associations between perceived neighbourhood characteristics, physical activity and diet quality, which in Latin America and Brazil have been scarcely studied and with inconsistent results.MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 14,749 individuals who participated in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (Estudo Longitudinal de Saúde do Adulto, ELSA-Brasil) baseline. The study included current and retired civil servants, aged between 35 and 74 years, from universities and research institutes in six Brazilian states. The International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) long form was used to characterize physical activity during leisure time and commuting; additional questions assessed how often fruit and vegetables were consumed, as a proxy for diet quality. Neighbourhood characteristics were evaluated by the “Walking Environment” and “Availability of Healthy Foods” scales originally used in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Associations were examined using multinomial logistic regression.ResultsPerceiving a more walkable neighbourhood was positively associated with engaging in leisure time physical activity and doing so for longer weekly. Compared with those who saw their neighbourhood as less walkable, those who perceived it as more walkable had 1.69 (95 % CI 1.57–1.83) and 1.39 (1.28–1.52) greater odds of engaging in leisure time physical activity for more than 150 min/week or up to 150 min/week (vs. none), respectively. Perceiving a more walkable neighbourhood was also positively associated with transport-related physical activity. The same pattern was observed for diet: compared with participants who perceived healthy foods as less available in their neighbourhood, those who saw them as more available had odds 1.48 greater (1.31–1.66) of eating fruits, and 1.47 greater (1.30–1.66) of eating vegetables, more than once per day.ConclusionsPerceived walkability and neighbourhood availability of healthy food were independently associated with the practice of physical activity and diet quality, respectively, underlining the importance of neighbourhood-level public policies to changing and maintaining health-related habits.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© Chor et al. 2016