ArticleAmerican journal of public health2014
The relationship between neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics and physical inactivity among adolescents living in Boston, Massachusetts.
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- Social capital and physical activity: a literature review up to March 2024.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Sport-based youth development interventions in the United States: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2019Pooled it
- Exploring the longitudinal associations between census division income inequality and BMI trajectories among Canadian adolescent: Is gender an effect modifier?SSM - population health · 2023Article
- Determining Positive Behavioral Skills in Different Age Groups of Young Basketball Players during the Pandemic.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The neighborhood social environment and physical activity: a systematic scoping review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2019Article
- Associations among Neighborhood Socioeconomic Deprivation, Physical Activity Facilities, and Physical Activity in Youth during the Transition from Childhood to Adolescence.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Differences in social and physical dimensions of perceived walkability in Mexican American and non-hispanic white walking environments in Tucson, Arizona.Journal of transport & health · 2019Article
- The association between social cohesion and physical activity in canada: A multilevel analysis.SSM - population health · 2016Article
- School social fragmentation, economic deprivation and social cohesion and adolescent physical inactivity: a longitudinal study.PloS one · 2014Article
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Abstract
objectivesWe sought to determine whether the socioeconomic environment was associated with no participation in physical activity among adolescents in Boston, Massachusetts.
methodsWe used cross-sectional data from 1878 urban adolescents living in 38 neighborhoods who participated in the 2008 Boston Youth Survey, a biennial survey of high school students (aged 14-19 years). We used multilevel multiple regression models to determine the association between neighborhood-level exposures of economic deprivation, social fragmentation, social cohesion, danger and disorder, and students' reports of no participation in physical activity in the previous week.
resultsHigh social fragmentation within the residential neighborhood was associated with an increased likelihood of being inactive (odds ratio = 1.53; 95% confidence interval = 1.14, 2.05). No other neighborhood exposures were associated with physical inactivity.
conclusionsSocial fragmentation might be an important correlate of physical inactivity among youths living in urban settings. Interventions might be needed to assist youths living in unstable neighborhoods to be physically active.
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