ArticleCanadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2012
Smart cities, healthy kids: the association between neighbourhood design and children's physical activity and time spent sedentary.
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- Association between Urban Greenspace and Health: A Systematic Review of Literature.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- The Effect of Season and Neighbourhood-Built Environment on Home Area Sedentary Behaviour in 9-14 Year Old Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Neighborhood Built Environment Measures and Association with Physical Activity and Sedentary Time in 9-14-Year-Old Children in Saskatoon, Canada.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Environments favorable to healthy lifestyles: A systematic review of initiatives in Canada.Journal of sport and health science · 2018Review
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- Towards uniform accelerometry analysis: a standardization methodology to minimize measurement bias due to systematic accelerometer wear-time variation.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2014Article
- Built environment health research: the time is now for a Canadian network of excellence.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2012Article
- Coming to consensus on policy to create supportive built environments and community design.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2012Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo determine whether, and to what extent, a relation exists between neighbourhood design and children's physical activity and sedentary behaviours in Saskatoon.
methodsThree neighbourhood designs were assessed: 1) core neighbourhoods developed before 1930 that follow a grid pattern, 2) fractured-grid pattern neighbourhoods that were developed between the 1930s and mid-1960s, and 3) curvilinear-pattern neighbourhoods that were developed between the mid-1960s through to 1998. Children aged 10-14 years (N=455; mean age 11.7 years), grouped by the neighbourhoods they resided in, had their physical activity and sedentary behaviour objectively measured by accelerometry for 7 days. ANCOVA and MANCOVA (multivariate analysis of covariance) models were used to assess group differences (p<0.05).
resultsGroup differences were apparent on weekdays but not on weekend days. When age, sex and family income had been controlled for, children living in fractured-grid neighbourhoods had, on average, 83 and 55 fewer accelerometer counts per minute on weekdays than the children in the core and curvilinear-pattern neighbourhoods, respectively. Further analyses showed that the children in the fractured-grid neighbourhoods accumulated 15 and 9 fewer minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity per day and had a greater time spent in sedentary behaviour (23 and 17 minutes) than those in core and curvilinear-pattern neighbourhoods, respectively.
conclusionThese data suggest that in Saskatoon there is a relation between neighbourhood design and children's physical activity and sedentary behaviours. Further work is needed to tease out which features of the built environments have the greatest impact on these important lifestyle behaviours. This information, offered in the context of ongoing development of neighbourhoods, as we see in Saskatoon, is critical to an evidence-informed approach to urban development and planning.
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