ReviewCurrent obesity reports2015
Playability: Built and Social Environment Features That Promote Physical Activity Within Children.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Associations between parental perceptions of neighbourhood environment and physical activity in children and adolescents: a systematic review including 149 studies.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Pooled it
- Family-Based Motivational Interviewing and Resource Mobilization to Prevent Obesity: Living Well Together Trial.Journal of nutrition education and behavior · 2024Trial
- Active school transport in an urban environment:prevalence and perceived barriers.BMC public health · 2023Trial
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- 'Just normal', 'calming' and 'well looked after': a qualitative exploration of adolescents' constructions of active mobility and place in Australia.Health promotion international · 2025Article
- The built environment and child obesity: A review of Australian policies.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2024Review
- Prioritizing a research agenda on built environments and physical activity: a twin panel Delphi consensus process with researchers and knowledge users.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Article
- Urban-rural disparities in childhood obesogenic environments in the United States: Application of differing rural definitions.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2023Article
- Running Toward Equity: Socioeconomic Diversity and Parental Perception of a Physical Activity-Based Positive Youth Development Program for Girls.Journal of healthy eating and active living · 2023Article
- Development and reliability testing of an audit toolbox for the assessment of the physical activity friendliness of urban and rural environments in Germany.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Neighborhood built environment typologies and adiposity in children and adolescents.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2022Article
- Resource mobilization combined with motivational interviewing to promote healthy behaviors and healthy weight in low-income families: An intervention feasibility study.SAGE open medicine · 2022Article
- A randomized controlled trial of a community-based obesity intervention utilizing motivational interviewing and community resource mobilization for low-income families: Study protocol and baseline characteristics.Contemporary clinical trials · 2022Article
- Failure to Launch: Predictors of Unfavourable Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Trajectories from Childhood to Adolescence: The Gateshead Millennium Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Built environment in programs to promote physical activity among Latino children and youth living in the United States and in Latin America.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Article
- Operationalizing and Testing the Concept of a Physical Activity Desert.Journal of physical activity & health · 2021Article
- Association between neighborhood aesthetics and childhood obesity.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Review
- Socio-economic and Regional Differences in Walkability and Greenspace Around Primary Schools: A Census of Australian Primary School Neighbourhoods.Journal of community health · 2021Article
- Do parenting practices moderate the association between the physical neighbourhood environment and changes in children's time spent at various physical activity levels? An exploratory longitudinal study.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Development of a national childhood obesogenic environment index in the United States: differences by region and rurality.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2020Article
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Abstract
The role of neighbourhood built and social environments in shaping children's physical activity has received increasing interest over the past 10 years. We reviewed recent evidence published between 2011 and 2014. Most of the recent evidence continues to be cross-sectional. Few macro-level neighbourhood attributes were consistently associated with physical activity in the expected direction. The strongest evidence for associations between neighbourhood attributes and physical activity with was for the transportation environment, particularly in relation to proximity to school and transport-related physical activity. There was intermediate evidence that neighbourhood walking/cycling infrastructure and pedestrian safety structures are associated with transport-related PA. Recent evidence on associations between the neighbourhood built and social environment and children's PA is modest. Stronger study designs and greater attention to conceptual-matching and specificity of measures are critical to advance the evidence base.
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