Subjective neighborhood assessment and physical inactivity: An examination of neighborhood-level variance

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

卷:111

Article

Prochaska, John D.^1,2,3  Buschmann, Robert N.¹  Jupiter, Daniel^1,4  Mutambudzi, Miriam¹  Peek, M. Kristen¹ 

[1] Univ Texas Med Branch, Dept Prevent Med & Community Hlth, 301 Univ Blvd,Route 1153, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

[2] Univ Texas Med Branch, Inst Translat Sci, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

[3] Univ Texas Med Branch, Ctr Environm Toxicol, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

[4] Univ Texas Med Branch, Off Biostat, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

关键词: Exercise;    Urban health;    Neighborhood;    Healthy neighborhoods;    Subjective neighborhood assessment;    Variability;    Median absolute deviation;    Physical inactivity;    Physical activity;    Environment;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.11.020

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Research suggests a linkage between perceptions of neighborhood quality and the likelihood of engaging in leisure-time physical activity. Often in these studies, intra-neighborhood variance is viewed as something to be controlled for statistically. However, we hypothesized that intra-neighborhood variance in perceptions of neighborhood quality may be contextually relevant. We examined the relationship between intra-neighborhood variance of subjective neighborhood quality and neighborhood-level reported physical inactivity across 48 neighborhoods within a medium-sized city, Texas City, Texas using survey data from 2706 residents collected between 2004 and 2006. Neighborhoods where the aggregated perception of neighborhood quality was poor also had a larger proportion of residents reporting being physically inactive. However, higher degrees of disagreement among residents within neighborhoods about their neighborhood quality was significantly associated with a lower proportion of residents reporting being physically inactive (p = 0.001). Our results suggest that intra-neighborhood variability may be contextually relevant in studies seeking to better understand the relationship between neighborhood quality and behaviors sensitive to neighborhood environments, like physical activity.

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