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A GIS based approach to neighbourhood physical environment and walking among adults in Colombo municipal council area, Sri Lanka

BACKGROUND: Physical Activity (PA) promotes health and wellbeing and walking is one of the easiest and commonest way to incorporate activity into everyday life. This study examined the association between the objectively measured neighbourhood physical environment and walking among the adults in Col...

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Autores principales: Weliange, Shreenika De Silva, Fernando, Dulitha, Withanage, Shanthi, Gunatilake, Jagath
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8157718/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34039305
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10983-7
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author Weliange, Shreenika De Silva
Fernando, Dulitha
Withanage, Shanthi
Gunatilake, Jagath
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Fernando, Dulitha
Withanage, Shanthi
Gunatilake, Jagath
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description BACKGROUND: Physical Activity (PA) promotes health and wellbeing and walking is one of the easiest and commonest way to incorporate activity into everyday life. This study examined the association between the objectively measured neighbourhood physical environment and walking among the adults in Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) area in Sri Lanka. METHODS: A cross sectional study was carried out and primary data collection carried out to assess walking, socio-demographic characteristics and geo location of residence. Secondary data was obtained to assess neighbourhood environment from existing spatially referenced data from the survey department of Sri Lanka. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) was used to calculate density measures (residential density, land use, connectivity and access) and distance measures, which were then correlated with walking. RESULTS: A sample consisted of 284 adults aged 29–59 years with a mean age of 40.6 (SD,10.9) years. The total mean minutes walked a week was 175.8 min with a standard deviation of 214.0. The mean and the standard deviations of walking per week for transportation and leisure were 158.4 (SD,196.6) and 17.5 (SD,70.1) respectively. Residential density measures, building foot print area, length of major roads, number of intersections, number of bus stops, and distance to nearest major roads showed significant moderate degree of correlations with total minutes of walked per week, (p < 0.001). These results were similar with walking for transportation. CONCLUSION: There is indication that neighbourhood features are associated with walking among the adults in the CMC area using secondary data on physical environment. This paves way for further exploration to understand the relationship between neighbourhood physical environment and walking which could be used for effective interventions to promote walking.
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spelling pubmed-81577182021-05-28 A GIS based approach to neighbourhood physical environment and walking among adults in Colombo municipal council area, Sri Lanka Weliange, Shreenika De Silva Fernando, Dulitha Withanage, Shanthi Gunatilake, Jagath BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Physical Activity (PA) promotes health and wellbeing and walking is one of the easiest and commonest way to incorporate activity into everyday life. This study examined the association between the objectively measured neighbourhood physical environment and walking among the adults in Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) area in Sri Lanka. METHODS: A cross sectional study was carried out and primary data collection carried out to assess walking, socio-demographic characteristics and geo location of residence. Secondary data was obtained to assess neighbourhood environment from existing spatially referenced data from the survey department of Sri Lanka. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) was used to calculate density measures (residential density, land use, connectivity and access) and distance measures, which were then correlated with walking. RESULTS: A sample consisted of 284 adults aged 29–59 years with a mean age of 40.6 (SD,10.9) years. The total mean minutes walked a week was 175.8 min with a standard deviation of 214.0. The mean and the standard deviations of walking per week for transportation and leisure were 158.4 (SD,196.6) and 17.5 (SD,70.1) respectively. Residential density measures, building foot print area, length of major roads, number of intersections, number of bus stops, and distance to nearest major roads showed significant moderate degree of correlations with total minutes of walked per week, (p < 0.001). These results were similar with walking for transportation. CONCLUSION: There is indication that neighbourhood features are associated with walking among the adults in the CMC area using secondary data on physical environment. This paves way for further exploration to understand the relationship between neighbourhood physical environment and walking which could be used for effective interventions to promote walking. BioMed Central 2021-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8157718/ /pubmed/34039305 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10983-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Weliange, Shreenika De Silva
Fernando, Dulitha
Withanage, Shanthi
Gunatilake, Jagath
A GIS based approach to neighbourhood physical environment and walking among adults in Colombo municipal council area, Sri Lanka
title A GIS based approach to neighbourhood physical environment and walking among adults in Colombo municipal council area, Sri Lanka
title_full A GIS based approach to neighbourhood physical environment and walking among adults in Colombo municipal council area, Sri Lanka
title_fullStr A GIS based approach to neighbourhood physical environment and walking among adults in Colombo municipal council area, Sri Lanka
title_full_unstemmed A GIS based approach to neighbourhood physical environment and walking among adults in Colombo municipal council area, Sri Lanka
title_short A GIS based approach to neighbourhood physical environment and walking among adults in Colombo municipal council area, Sri Lanka
title_sort gis based approach to neighbourhood physical environment and walking among adults in colombo municipal council area, sri lanka
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8157718/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34039305
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10983-7
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