ArticleGeospatial health2014
Application of global positioning system methods for the study of obesity and hypertension risk among low-income housing residents in New York City: a spatial feasibility study.
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- Neighborhood Profiles and Body Mass Index Trajectory in Female Adolescents and Young Adults.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2021Article
- Assessment of spatial mobility among young men who have sex with men within and across high HIV prevalence neighborhoods in New York city: The P18 neighborhood study.Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology · 2020Article
- Using global positioning system methods to explore mobility patterns and exposure to high HIV prevalence neighbourhoods among transgender women in New York.Geospatial health · 2019Article
- Assessments of residential and global positioning system activity space for food environments, body mass index and blood pressure among low-income housing residents in New York City.Geospatial health · 2018Article
- Collecting Mobility Data with GPS Methods to Understand the HIV Environmental Riskscape Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Multi-city Feasibility Study in the Deep South.AIDS and behavior · 2018Article
- How many days of global positioning system (GPS) monitoring do you need to measure activity space environments in health research?Health & place · 2018Article
- Acceptability of smartphone text- and voice-based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) methods among low income housing residents in New York City.BMC research notes · 2017Article
- Residential and GPS-Defined Activity Space Neighborhood Noise Complaints, Body Mass Index and Blood Pressure Among Low-Income Housing Residents in New York City.Journal of community health · 2017Article
- Acceptability and Feasibility of Using a Novel Geospatial Method to Measure Neighborhood Contexts and Mobility Among Transgender Women in New York City.Transgender health · 2017Article
- Quantifying spatial misclassification in exposure to noise complaints among low-income housing residents across New York City neighborhoods: a Global Positioning System (GPS) study.Annals of epidemiology · 2017Article
- Neighborhood perceptions and hypertension among low-income black women: a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2016Article
- Confidentiality considerations for use of social-spatial data on the social determinants of health: Sexual and reproductive health case study.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2016Article
- Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage; Neighborhood Racial Composition; and Hypertension Stage, Awareness, and Treatment Among Hypertensive Black Men in New York City: Does Nativity Matter?Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2016Article
- Walk Score, Transportation Mode Choice, and Walking Among French Adults: A GPS, Accelerometer, and Mobility Survey Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016Article
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- Mapping Multi-Day GPS Data: A Cartographic Study in NYC.Journal of mapsArticle
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of using global positioning system (GPS) methods to understand the spatial context of obesity and hypertension risk among a sample of low-income housing residents in New York City (n = 120). GPS feasibility among participants was measured with a pre- and post-survey as well as adherence to a protocol which included returning the GPS device as well as objective data analysed from the GPS devices. We also conducted qualitative interviews with 21 of the participants. Most of the sample was overweight (26.7%) or obese (40.0%). Almost one-third (30.8%) was pre-hypertensive and 39.2% was hypertensive. Participants reported high ratings of GPS acceptability, ease of use and low levels of wear-related concerns in addition to few concerns related to safety, loss or appearance, which were maintained after the baseline GPS feasibility data collection. Results show that GPS feasibility increased over time. The overall GPS return rate was 95.6%. Out of the total of 114 participants with GPS, 112 (98.2%) delivered at least one hour of GPS data for one day and 84 (73.7%) delivered at least one hour on 7 or more days. The qualitative interviews indicated that overall, participants enjoyed wearing the GPS devices, that they were easy to use and charge and that they generally forgot about the GPS device when wearing it daily. Findings demonstrate that GPS devices may be used in spatial epidemiology research in low-income and potentially other key vulnerable populations to understand geospatial determinants of obesity, hypertension and other diseases that these populations disproportionately experience.
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