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Perceived and objective neighborhood support for outside of school physical activity in South African children
BACKGROUND: The neighborhood environment has the potential to influence children’s participation in physical activity. However, children’s outdoor play is controlled by parents to a great extent. This study aimed to investigate whether parents' perceptions of the neighborhood environment and th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4888208/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27246104 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-2860-0 |
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author | Uys, Monika Broyles, Stephanie T. E. Draper, Catherine Hendricks, Sharief Rae, Dale Naidoo, Nirmala Katzmarzyk, Peter T. Lambert, Estelle V. |
author_facet | Uys, Monika Broyles, Stephanie T. E. Draper, Catherine Hendricks, Sharief Rae, Dale Naidoo, Nirmala Katzmarzyk, Peter T. Lambert, Estelle V. |
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description | BACKGROUND: The neighborhood environment has the potential to influence children’s participation in physical activity. However, children’s outdoor play is controlled by parents to a great extent. This study aimed to investigate whether parents' perceptions of the neighborhood environment and the objectively measured neighborhood environment were associated with children's moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA) outside of school hours; and to determine if these perceptions and objective measures of the neighborhood environment differ between high and low socio-economic status (SES) groups. METHODS: In total, 258 parents of 9–11 year-old children, recruited from the South African sample of the International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment (ISCOLE), completed a questionnaire concerning the family and neighborhood environment. Objective measures of the environment were also obtained using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Children wore an Actigraph (GT3X+) accelerometer for 7 days to measure levels of MVPA. Multilevel regression models were used to determine the association between the neighborhood environment and MVPA out of school hours. RESULTS: Parents’ perceptions of the neighborhood physical activity facilities were positively associated with children’s MVPA before school (β = 1.50 ± 0.51, p = 0.003). Objective measures of neighborhood safety and traffic risk were associated with children’s after-school MVPA (β = −2.72 ± 1.35, p = 0.044 and β = −2.63 ± 1.26, p = 0.038, respectively). These associations were significant in the low SES group (β = −3.38 ± 1.65, p = 0.040 and β = −3.76 ± 1.61, p = 0.020, respectively), but unrelated to MVPA in the high SES group. CONCLUSIONS: This study found that several of the objective measures of the neighborhood environment were significantly associated with children’s outside-of-school MVPA, while most of the parents’ perceptions of the neighborhood environment were unrelated. |
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spelling | pubmed-48882082016-06-02 Perceived and objective neighborhood support for outside of school physical activity in South African children Uys, Monika Broyles, Stephanie T. E. Draper, Catherine Hendricks, Sharief Rae, Dale Naidoo, Nirmala Katzmarzyk, Peter T. Lambert, Estelle V. BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: The neighborhood environment has the potential to influence children’s participation in physical activity. However, children’s outdoor play is controlled by parents to a great extent. This study aimed to investigate whether parents' perceptions of the neighborhood environment and the objectively measured neighborhood environment were associated with children's moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA) outside of school hours; and to determine if these perceptions and objective measures of the neighborhood environment differ between high and low socio-economic status (SES) groups. METHODS: In total, 258 parents of 9–11 year-old children, recruited from the South African sample of the International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment (ISCOLE), completed a questionnaire concerning the family and neighborhood environment. Objective measures of the environment were also obtained using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Children wore an Actigraph (GT3X+) accelerometer for 7 days to measure levels of MVPA. Multilevel regression models were used to determine the association between the neighborhood environment and MVPA out of school hours. RESULTS: Parents’ perceptions of the neighborhood physical activity facilities were positively associated with children’s MVPA before school (β = 1.50 ± 0.51, p = 0.003). Objective measures of neighborhood safety and traffic risk were associated with children’s after-school MVPA (β = −2.72 ± 1.35, p = 0.044 and β = −2.63 ± 1.26, p = 0.038, respectively). These associations were significant in the low SES group (β = −3.38 ± 1.65, p = 0.040 and β = −3.76 ± 1.61, p = 0.020, respectively), but unrelated to MVPA in the high SES group. CONCLUSIONS: This study found that several of the objective measures of the neighborhood environment were significantly associated with children’s outside-of-school MVPA, while most of the parents’ perceptions of the neighborhood environment were unrelated. BioMed Central 2016-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4888208/ /pubmed/27246104 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-2860-0 Text en © Uys et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Uys, Monika Broyles, Stephanie T. E. Draper, Catherine Hendricks, Sharief Rae, Dale Naidoo, Nirmala Katzmarzyk, Peter T. Lambert, Estelle V. Perceived and objective neighborhood support for outside of school physical activity in South African children |
title | Perceived and objective neighborhood support for outside of school physical activity in South African children |
title_full | Perceived and objective neighborhood support for outside of school physical activity in South African children |
title_fullStr | Perceived and objective neighborhood support for outside of school physical activity in South African children |
title_full_unstemmed | Perceived and objective neighborhood support for outside of school physical activity in South African children |
title_short | Perceived and objective neighborhood support for outside of school physical activity in South African children |
title_sort | perceived and objective neighborhood support for outside of school physical activity in south african children |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4888208/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27246104 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-2860-0 |
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