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Measuring capability for healthy diet and physical activity.
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- A Study of Immigrant Latinas Perspectives of Caring for their Diabetes.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2023Article
- Older Public Housing Tenants' Capabilities for Physical Activity Described Using Walk-Along Interviews in Montreal, Canada.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Geographic disparities and temporal changes in risk of death from myocardial infarction in Florida, 2000-2014.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Neighborhood Influences and BMI in Urban Older Adults.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2017Article
- Hispanic Mothers' Views of the Fathers' Role in Promoting Healthy Behaviors at Home: Focus Group Findings.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2017Article
- Geographic Variation in Trends and Disparities in Acute Myocardial Infarction Hospitalization and Mortality by Income Levels, 1999-2013.JAMA cardiology · 2016Article
- Practical Opportunities for Healthy Diet and Physical Activity: Relationship to Intentions, Behaviors, and Body Mass Index.Annals of family medicine · 2016Article
- Impact evaluation of a healthy lifestyle intervention to reduce cardiovascular disease risk in health centers in San José, Costa Rica and Chiapas, Mexico.BMC health services research · 2015Article
- Applications of the Capability Approach in the Health Field: A Literature Review.Social indicators researchArticle
- Community Health Workers as Trust Builders and Healers: A Cohort Study in Primary Care.Annals of family medicineArticle
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Abstract
purposePatterns of diet and physical activity, major drivers of morbidity and mortality, are contingent on people's feasible opportunities to pursue healthy behaviors. Our objective for this mixed methods study was to develop measures of feasible opportunities for diet and activity.
methodsThe Capability Approach framework for evaluating people's real freedoms to pursue their values guided the research. A community-based participatory model was applied to conduct focus groups of adults with obesity or diabetes mellitus from an economically disadvantaged Latino community. Focus group themes were developed into survey items that assess how individual circumstances and neighborhood contexts influence opportunities for diet and activity. The prevalence of different influences was explored in a sample of 300 patients from a primary care safety net clinic. Scales measuring different aspects of opportunity were created through principal components analysis.
resultsAvailability, convenience, safety, cost of food, and activity resources interact with individual circumstances, such as illness, depression, family and nonfamily supports, and scope of personal agency, to shape practical opportunities. Multiple vulnerabilities in availability of resources and moderators of resource use commonly occur together, intensifying challenges and creating difficult trade-offs. Only one-half of participants reported that physicians understood their difficulties pursuing activity, and just one-third for diet.
conclusionsOur results suggest that practical opportunities for healthy behavior can be measured as a primary target for clinical and public health assessment and intervention. The Capability Approach holds promise as a framework for developing interventions responsive to both personal and environmental determinants.
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