ArticleHealth & place2012
Out and about: association of the built environment with physical activity behaviors of adolescent females.
Article in Health & place, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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75 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Objectively measuring the association between the built environment and physical activity: a systematic review and reporting framework.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Pooled it
- Neighbourhood residential density and childhood obesity.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
- Methodologies for assessing contextual exposure to the built environment in physical activity studies: A systematic review.Health & place · 2019Pooled it
- Activity spaces in studies of the environment and physical activity: A review and synthesis of implications for causality.Health & place · 2019Pooled it
- Within What Distance Does "Greenness" Best Predict Physical Health? A Systematic Review of Articles with GIS Buffer Analyses across the Lifespan.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Pooled it
- Technologies That Assess the Location of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior: A Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2015Pooled it
- Associations of objectively measured built-environment attributes with youth moderate-vigorous physical activity: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2015Pooled it
- The impact of the natural environment on the promotion of active living: an integrative systematic review.BMC public health · 2014Pooled it
- Monitoring Location-Specific Physical Activity via Integration of Accelerometry and Geotechnology Within Patients With or At Risk of Diabetic Foot Ulcers: A Technological Report.Journal of diabetes science and technology · 2017Trial
- Design and implementation of a physical activity intervention to enhance children's use of the built environment (the CUBE study).Contemporary clinical trials · 2015Trial
- Objective and perceived proximity to parks in relation to physical activity within parks.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2026Article
- A multilevel impact study of Chinese adolescents' sports participation based on ecological models of health behavior: a structural equation model analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Measuring environmental exposures in people's activity space: The need to account for travel modes and exposure decay.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2023Article
- Association between the built environment and moderate to vigorous leisure-time physical activity among suzhou adolescents: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Association of Individual and Neighborhood Characteristics to Problematic Internet Use among Youths and Adolescents: Evidence from Vietnam.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- A novel method to map community- and neighborhood-level access to rural physical activity built environments in the United States.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
- GPS-based activity space exposure to greenness and walkability is associated with increased accelerometer-based physical activity.Environment international · 2022Article
- Measuring the Built Environment in Studies of Child Health-A Meta-Narrative Review of Associations.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
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Abstract
Locational data, logged on portable GPS units and matched with accelerometer data, was used to examine associations of the built environment with physical activity and sedentary behaviors of adolescent females. In a sample of 293 adolescent females aged 15 to 18 years old in Minneapolis and San Diego, the built environment around each GPS point and its corresponding sedentary, light, and moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity was examined using random intercept multinomial logistic regression models. The odds of higher physical activity intensity (3-level outcome: sedentary, light, MVPA) were higher in places with parks, schools, and high population density, during weekdays, and lower in places with more roads and food outlets. Understanding the places where physical activity and sedentary behaviors occur appears to be a promising strategy to clarify relationships and inform policy aimed at increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary behaviors.
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