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Walking for leisure among adults from three Brazilian cities and its association with perceived environment attributes and personal factors

BACKGROUND: Walking is a popular form of physical activity and a convenient option to prevent chronic diseases. However, most of the evidence on this topic derives from high-income countries and little is known about walking patterns and its association with environmental features in low and middle...

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Autores principales: Gomes, Grace AO, Reis, Rodrigo S, Parra, Diana C, Ribeiro, Isabela, Hino, Adriano AF, Hallal, Pedro C, Malta, Deborah C, Brownson, Ross C
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3207926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21995846
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-5868-8-111
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author Gomes, Grace AO
Reis, Rodrigo S
Parra, Diana C
Ribeiro, Isabela
Hino, Adriano AF
Hallal, Pedro C
Malta, Deborah C
Brownson, Ross C
author_facet Gomes, Grace AO
Reis, Rodrigo S
Parra, Diana C
Ribeiro, Isabela
Hino, Adriano AF
Hallal, Pedro C
Malta, Deborah C
Brownson, Ross C
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description BACKGROUND: Walking is a popular form of physical activity and a convenient option to prevent chronic diseases. However, most of the evidence on this topic derives from high-income countries and little is known about walking patterns and its association with environmental features in low and middle income countries. OBJECTIVES: To describe walking for leisure and to identify its association with perceived environment and personal factors among residents of three state capitals from different regions of Brazil METHODS: Cross sectional phone surveys were conducted in Recife, Curitiba and Vitória (n = 6,166) in 2007, 2008 and 2009 respectively. Physical activity was measured using the leisure-time sections of the long version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). Perceived environment characteristics were assessed using a modified version of the Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS). Multivariable analysis tested the associations between walking for leisure and perceived environment characteristics across the cities using logistic regression. RESULTS: The proportions of respondents meeting physical activity recommendations through walking for leisure were 9.6%, 16.0% and 8.8% in Curitiba, Recife and Vitoria, respectively. Engaging in 150 min/wk or more of walking for leisure was significantly associated with younger age, higher education, better self-rated health and with lack of sidewalks on nearby streets. We did not find positive associations between walking for leisure and traffic conditions and safety related to cycling/walking during the day or night. CONCLUSION: Most environmental features were not associated with walking for leisure. Personal factors were stronger predictors of walking for leisure as compared with perceived environment factors.
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spelling pubmed-32079262011-11-04 Walking for leisure among adults from three Brazilian cities and its association with perceived environment attributes and personal factors Gomes, Grace AO Reis, Rodrigo S Parra, Diana C Ribeiro, Isabela Hino, Adriano AF Hallal, Pedro C Malta, Deborah C Brownson, Ross C Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act Research BACKGROUND: Walking is a popular form of physical activity and a convenient option to prevent chronic diseases. However, most of the evidence on this topic derives from high-income countries and little is known about walking patterns and its association with environmental features in low and middle income countries. OBJECTIVES: To describe walking for leisure and to identify its association with perceived environment and personal factors among residents of three state capitals from different regions of Brazil METHODS: Cross sectional phone surveys were conducted in Recife, Curitiba and Vitória (n = 6,166) in 2007, 2008 and 2009 respectively. Physical activity was measured using the leisure-time sections of the long version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). Perceived environment characteristics were assessed using a modified version of the Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS). Multivariable analysis tested the associations between walking for leisure and perceived environment characteristics across the cities using logistic regression. RESULTS: The proportions of respondents meeting physical activity recommendations through walking for leisure were 9.6%, 16.0% and 8.8% in Curitiba, Recife and Vitoria, respectively. Engaging in 150 min/wk or more of walking for leisure was significantly associated with younger age, higher education, better self-rated health and with lack of sidewalks on nearby streets. We did not find positive associations between walking for leisure and traffic conditions and safety related to cycling/walking during the day or night. CONCLUSION: Most environmental features were not associated with walking for leisure. Personal factors were stronger predictors of walking for leisure as compared with perceived environment factors. BioMed Central 2011-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC3207926/ /pubmed/21995846 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-5868-8-111 Text en Copyright ©2011 Gomes et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gomes, Grace AO
Reis, Rodrigo S
Parra, Diana C
Ribeiro, Isabela
Hino, Adriano AF
Hallal, Pedro C
Malta, Deborah C
Brownson, Ross C
Walking for leisure among adults from three Brazilian cities and its association with perceived environment attributes and personal factors
title Walking for leisure among adults from three Brazilian cities and its association with perceived environment attributes and personal factors
title_full Walking for leisure among adults from three Brazilian cities and its association with perceived environment attributes and personal factors
title_fullStr Walking for leisure among adults from three Brazilian cities and its association with perceived environment attributes and personal factors
title_full_unstemmed Walking for leisure among adults from three Brazilian cities and its association with perceived environment attributes and personal factors
title_short Walking for leisure among adults from three Brazilian cities and its association with perceived environment attributes and personal factors
title_sort walking for leisure among adults from three brazilian cities and its association with perceived environment attributes and personal factors
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3207926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21995846
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-5868-8-111
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