Cargando…

The neighbourhood built environment and health-related fitness: a narrative systematic review

BACKGROUND: There is increasing evidence demonstrating the importance of the neighbourhood built environment in supporting physical activity. Physical activity provides numerous health benefits including improvements in health-related fitness (i.e., muscular, cardiorespiratory, motor, and morphologi...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Frehlich, Levi, Christie, Chelsea D., Ronksley, Paul E., Turin, Tanvir C., Doyle-Baker, Patricia, McCormack, Gavin R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9509561/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36153538
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12966-022-01359-0
_version_ 1784797251507322880
author Frehlich, Levi
Christie, Chelsea D.
Ronksley, Paul E.
Turin, Tanvir C.
Doyle-Baker, Patricia
McCormack, Gavin R.
author_facet Frehlich, Levi
Christie, Chelsea D.
Ronksley, Paul E.
Turin, Tanvir C.
Doyle-Baker, Patricia
McCormack, Gavin R.
author_sort Frehlich, Levi
collection PubMed
description BACKGROUND: There is increasing evidence demonstrating the importance of the neighbourhood built environment in supporting physical activity. Physical activity provides numerous health benefits including improvements in health-related fitness (i.e., muscular, cardiorespiratory, motor, and morphological fitness). Emerging evidence also suggests that the neighbourhood built environment is associated with health-related fitness. Our aim was to summarize evidence on the associations between the neighbourhood built environment and components of health-related fitness in adults. METHODS: We undertook a systematic review following PRISMA guidelines. Our data sources included electronic searches in MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, Web of Science, SPORTDiscus, Environment Complete, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, and Transport Research International Documentation from inception to March 2021. Our eligibility criteria consisted of observational and experimental studies estimating associations between the neighbourhood built environment and health-related fitness among healthy adults (age ≥ 18 years). Eligible studies included objective or self-reported measures of the neighbourhood built environment and included either objective or self-reported measures of health-related fitness. Data extraction included study design, sample characteristics, measured neighbourhood built environment characteristics, and measured components of health-related fitness. We used individual Joanna Briggs Institute study checklists based on identified study designs. Our primary outcome measure was components of health-related fitness (muscular; cardiorespiratory; motor, and morphological fitness). RESULTS: Twenty-seven studies (sample sizes = 28 to 419,562; 2002 to 2020) met the eligibility criteria. Neighbourhood destinations were the most consistent built environment correlate across all components of health-related fitness. The greatest number of significant associations was found between the neighbourhood built environment and morphological fitness while the lowest number of associations was found for motor fitness. The neighbourhood built environment was consistently associated with health-related fitness in studies that adjusted for physical activity. CONCLUSION: The neighbourhood built environment is associated with health-related fitness in adults and these associations may be independent of physical activity. Longitudinal studies that adjust for physical activity (including resistance training) and sedentary behaviour, and residential self-selection are needed to obtain rigorous causal evidence for the link between the neighbourhood built environment and health-related fitness. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Protocol registration: PROSPERO number CRD42020179807. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12966-022-01359-0.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-9509561
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2022
publisher BioMed Central
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-95095612022-09-26 The neighbourhood built environment and health-related fitness: a narrative systematic review Frehlich, Levi Christie, Chelsea D. Ronksley, Paul E. Turin, Tanvir C. Doyle-Baker, Patricia McCormack, Gavin R. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act Review BACKGROUND: There is increasing evidence demonstrating the importance of the neighbourhood built environment in supporting physical activity. Physical activity provides numerous health benefits including improvements in health-related fitness (i.e., muscular, cardiorespiratory, motor, and morphological fitness). Emerging evidence also suggests that the neighbourhood built environment is associated with health-related fitness. Our aim was to summarize evidence on the associations between the neighbourhood built environment and components of health-related fitness in adults. METHODS: We undertook a systematic review following PRISMA guidelines. Our data sources included electronic searches in MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, Web of Science, SPORTDiscus, Environment Complete, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, and Transport Research International Documentation from inception to March 2021. Our eligibility criteria consisted of observational and experimental studies estimating associations between the neighbourhood built environment and health-related fitness among healthy adults (age ≥ 18 years). Eligible studies included objective or self-reported measures of the neighbourhood built environment and included either objective or self-reported measures of health-related fitness. Data extraction included study design, sample characteristics, measured neighbourhood built environment characteristics, and measured components of health-related fitness. We used individual Joanna Briggs Institute study checklists based on identified study designs. Our primary outcome measure was components of health-related fitness (muscular; cardiorespiratory; motor, and morphological fitness). RESULTS: Twenty-seven studies (sample sizes = 28 to 419,562; 2002 to 2020) met the eligibility criteria. Neighbourhood destinations were the most consistent built environment correlate across all components of health-related fitness. The greatest number of significant associations was found between the neighbourhood built environment and morphological fitness while the lowest number of associations was found for motor fitness. The neighbourhood built environment was consistently associated with health-related fitness in studies that adjusted for physical activity. CONCLUSION: The neighbourhood built environment is associated with health-related fitness in adults and these associations may be independent of physical activity. Longitudinal studies that adjust for physical activity (including resistance training) and sedentary behaviour, and residential self-selection are needed to obtain rigorous causal evidence for the link between the neighbourhood built environment and health-related fitness. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Protocol registration: PROSPERO number CRD42020179807. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12966-022-01359-0. BioMed Central 2022-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9509561/ /pubmed/36153538 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12966-022-01359-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 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.
spellingShingle Review
Frehlich, Levi
Christie, Chelsea D.
Ronksley, Paul E.
Turin, Tanvir C.
Doyle-Baker, Patricia
McCormack, Gavin R.
The neighbourhood built environment and health-related fitness: a narrative systematic review
title The neighbourhood built environment and health-related fitness: a narrative systematic review
title_full The neighbourhood built environment and health-related fitness: a narrative systematic review
title_fullStr The neighbourhood built environment and health-related fitness: a narrative systematic review
title_full_unstemmed The neighbourhood built environment and health-related fitness: a narrative systematic review
title_short The neighbourhood built environment and health-related fitness: a narrative systematic review
title_sort neighbourhood built environment and health-related fitness: a narrative systematic review
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9509561/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36153538
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12966-022-01359-0
work_keys_str_mv AT frehlichlevi theneighbourhoodbuiltenvironmentandhealthrelatedfitnessanarrativesystematicreview
AT christiechelsead theneighbourhoodbuiltenvironmentandhealthrelatedfitnessanarrativesystematicreview
AT ronksleypaule theneighbourhoodbuiltenvironmentandhealthrelatedfitnessanarrativesystematicreview
AT turintanvirc theneighbourhoodbuiltenvironmentandhealthrelatedfitnessanarrativesystematicreview
AT doylebakerpatricia theneighbourhoodbuiltenvironmentandhealthrelatedfitnessanarrativesystematicreview
AT mccormackgavinr theneighbourhoodbuiltenvironmentandhealthrelatedfitnessanarrativesystematicreview
AT frehlichlevi neighbourhoodbuiltenvironmentandhealthrelatedfitnessanarrativesystematicreview
AT christiechelsead neighbourhoodbuiltenvironmentandhealthrelatedfitnessanarrativesystematicreview
AT ronksleypaule neighbourhoodbuiltenvironmentandhealthrelatedfitnessanarrativesystematicreview
AT turintanvirc neighbourhoodbuiltenvironmentandhealthrelatedfitnessanarrativesystematicreview
AT doylebakerpatricia neighbourhoodbuiltenvironmentandhealthrelatedfitnessanarrativesystematicreview
AT mccormackgavinr neighbourhoodbuiltenvironmentandhealthrelatedfitnessanarrativesystematicreview