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Neighborhood environment correlates of physical activity and sedentary behavior among Latino adults in Massachusetts
BACKGROUND: U.S. Latinos experience high rates of cardio-metabolic diseases and have high rates of physical inactivity and sedentary behavior. Understanding the environmental factors associated with physical activity and sedentary behaviors among Latinos could inform future interventions. The purpos...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5020509/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27619205 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3650-4 |
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author | Silfee, Valerie J. Rosal, Milagros C. Sreedhara, Meera Lora, Vilma Lemon, Stephenie C. |
author_facet | Silfee, Valerie J. Rosal, Milagros C. Sreedhara, Meera Lora, Vilma Lemon, Stephenie C. |
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description | BACKGROUND: U.S. Latinos experience high rates of cardio-metabolic diseases and have high rates of physical inactivity and sedentary behavior. Understanding the environmental factors associated with physical activity and sedentary behaviors among Latinos could inform future interventions. The purpose of this study is to explore the neighborhood environment correlates of physical activity and sedentary behavior in a sample of U.S. Latino adults. METHODS: Cross-sectional study of 602 Latino adults in Lawrence, MA. Survey assessments of physical activity, sedentary behavior, and neighborhood environment were verbally administered. The neighborhood environment scale assessed violence, safety, aesthetic quality, walkability, availability of healthy foods, social cohesion, and activities with neighbors. RESULTS: After controlling forage, gender, education, body mass index (BMI), and smoking status, two variables were associated with the outcomes of interest. Living in more walkable neighborhoods was associated with an increased likelihood of engaging in adequate levels of physical activity (>150 min per week, as recommended by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)) (OR = 1.403, p = .018); and greater frequency of activities with neighbors was associated with greater sedentary behavior (β = .072, p = .05). CONCLUSIONS: There were different neighborhood environment correlates of physical activity and sedentary behavior in this Latino community. Focusing on a greater understanding of the distinct social and physical environmental correlates of physical activity and sedentary behavior may provide important insights for reducing CVD risk and health disparities among Latinos. |
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spelling | pubmed-50205092016-09-14 Neighborhood environment correlates of physical activity and sedentary behavior among Latino adults in Massachusetts Silfee, Valerie J. Rosal, Milagros C. Sreedhara, Meera Lora, Vilma Lemon, Stephenie C. BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: U.S. Latinos experience high rates of cardio-metabolic diseases and have high rates of physical inactivity and sedentary behavior. Understanding the environmental factors associated with physical activity and sedentary behaviors among Latinos could inform future interventions. The purpose of this study is to explore the neighborhood environment correlates of physical activity and sedentary behavior in a sample of U.S. Latino adults. METHODS: Cross-sectional study of 602 Latino adults in Lawrence, MA. Survey assessments of physical activity, sedentary behavior, and neighborhood environment were verbally administered. The neighborhood environment scale assessed violence, safety, aesthetic quality, walkability, availability of healthy foods, social cohesion, and activities with neighbors. RESULTS: After controlling forage, gender, education, body mass index (BMI), and smoking status, two variables were associated with the outcomes of interest. Living in more walkable neighborhoods was associated with an increased likelihood of engaging in adequate levels of physical activity (>150 min per week, as recommended by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)) (OR = 1.403, p = .018); and greater frequency of activities with neighbors was associated with greater sedentary behavior (β = .072, p = .05). CONCLUSIONS: There were different neighborhood environment correlates of physical activity and sedentary behavior in this Latino community. Focusing on a greater understanding of the distinct social and physical environmental correlates of physical activity and sedentary behavior may provide important insights for reducing CVD risk and health disparities among Latinos. BioMed Central 2016-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC5020509/ /pubmed/27619205 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3650-4 Text en © The Author(s). 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 Silfee, Valerie J. Rosal, Milagros C. Sreedhara, Meera Lora, Vilma Lemon, Stephenie C. Neighborhood environment correlates of physical activity and sedentary behavior among Latino adults in Massachusetts |
title | Neighborhood environment correlates of physical activity and sedentary behavior among Latino adults in Massachusetts |
title_full | Neighborhood environment correlates of physical activity and sedentary behavior among Latino adults in Massachusetts |
title_fullStr | Neighborhood environment correlates of physical activity and sedentary behavior among Latino adults in Massachusetts |
title_full_unstemmed | Neighborhood environment correlates of physical activity and sedentary behavior among Latino adults in Massachusetts |
title_short | Neighborhood environment correlates of physical activity and sedentary behavior among Latino adults in Massachusetts |
title_sort | neighborhood environment correlates of physical activity and sedentary behavior among latino adults in massachusetts |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5020509/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27619205 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3650-4 |
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