Observational studyMedicine and science in sports and exercise2014
Sociodemographic moderators of relations of neighborhood safety to physical activity.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 43 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of the built environment on physical activity: a systematic review of longitudinal studies taking sex/gender into account.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2020Pooled it
- Relationships Between Neighbourhood Physical Environmental Attributes and Older Adults' Leisure-Time Physical Activity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2018Pooled it
- Built environmental correlates of older adults' total physical activity and walking: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2017Pooled it
- Objective Measures of Physical Activity in Rural Communities: Factors Associated With a Valid Wear and Lessons Learned.Journal of physical activity & health · 2022Trial
- Exploring the Determinants and Correlates of Health-Enhancing Physical Activity of Adults in Eastern Poland.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Neighborhood Safety Concerns and the Onset of Depressive Symptoms Among Women: A Population-based Prospective Cohort Study in South Korea.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2024Article
- [Disability status and robbery victimization in Peruvian villagers].Revista espanola de salud publica · 2024Article
- Following Insufficiently Active Adolescents: What Predicts Whether They Meet Adult Activity Guidelines When They Grow Up?Journal of physical activity & health · 2023Article
- Who moves in vulnerable Caribbean neighborhoods? Positive deviance for physical activity: Findings from the Jamaica health and Lifestyle Survey 2017 (JHLS III).Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
- Traffic as a barrier to walking safely in the United States: Perceived reasons and potential mitigation strategies.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
- A cross-sectional study on the perceived barriers to physical activity and their associations with domain-specific physical activity and sedentary behaviour.BMC public health · 2022Article
- COVID-19 testing in Delaware's underserved communities: demographic and social determinants of testing inequality.Discover social science and health · 2022Article
- Perceived Neighborhood Environment Impacts on Health Behavior, Multi-Dimensional Health, and Life Satisfaction.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Urban environments and objectively-assessed physical activity and sedentary time in older Belgian and Chinese community dwellers: potential pathways of influence and the moderating role of physical function.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2020Article
- Relationship of perceived environmental characteristics to self-efficacy and leisure time physical activity among Asian immigrants in the U.S.Health promotion perspectives · 2020Article
- Neighborhood Walkability and BMI Change: A National Study of Veterans in Large Urban Areas.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2020Article
- Associations Between Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Physical Activity in the United States, National Health Interview Survey, 2017.Preventing chronic disease · 2019Article
- Moderating effect of the neighbourhood physical activity environment on the relation between psychosocial factors and physical activity in children: a longitudinal study.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2019Article
- Do Differences in Social Environments Explain Gender Differences in Recreational Walking across Neighbourhoods?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Do Physical Activity Friendly Neighborhoods Affect Community Members Equally? A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
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Abstract
purposeThis study aimed to investigate gender, race/ethnicity, education, and income as moderators of relations of perceived neighborhood crime, pedestrian, and traffic safety to physical activity.
methodsParticipants were from two samples: adults (N = 2199, age = 25-65 yr) and older adults (N = 718, age = 66+ yr) from high- and low-walkable neighborhoods in the Washington, DC, and Seattle, Washington, areas. Neighborhood safety and transportation and leisure walking were assessed via survey, and moderate to vigorous physical activity was assessed using accelerometers. Sociodemographic moderators were investigated using interaction terms and follow-up within-group tests from mixed-effects regression models.
resultsOverall direct effects of safety on physical activity were not found, with one exception. Seven interactions were found in each sample. Interactions were found for all physical activity outcomes, although total moderate to vigorous physical activity was involved in more interactions in adults than older adults. Half of the interactions revealed significant positive relations of pedestrian and traffic safety to physical activity in the more affluent/advantaged group (i.e., high education, high income, and non-Hispanic white) and null associations in the less affluent/advantaged group. Race/ethnicity was a moderator only in older adults. One-third of the interactions involved gender; half of these involved crime safety. Interactions involving crime safety showed nonsignificant positive trends in the more affluent/advantaged group and women and nonsignificant negative trends in the less affluent/advantaged group and men.
conclusionsSociodemographic moderators of neighborhood safety explained some of the variation in adults' and older adults' physical activity. Patterns suggested positive associations between safety and physical activity in participants with more affluent/advantaged sociodemographic characteristics, although some patterns were inconsistent, particularly for gender. More refined conceptualizations and measures of safety are needed to understand if and how these constructs influence physical activity.
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