ArticlePreventive medicine reports2016
Does Activity Space Size Influence Physical Activity Levels of Adolescents? - A GPS study of an urban environment.
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- Children's outdoor active mobility behaviour and neighbourhood safety: a systematic review in measurement methods and future research directions.International journal of health geographics · 2021Pooled it
- Activity spaces in studies of the environment and physical activity: A review and synthesis of implications for causality.Health & place · 2019Pooled it
- Relative importance of temporal and location features in predicting smoking events.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Associations Between the Built Environment in GPS-Derived Activity Spaces and Sedentary Behavior, Light Physical Activity, and Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Examination of multidimensional geographic mobility and sexual behaviour among Black cisgender sexually minoritized men in Chicago.Geospatial health · 2024Article
- Smartphone Global Positioning System-Based System to Assess Mobility in Health Research: Development, Accuracy, and Usability Study.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologies · 2023Article
- Investigating where adolescents engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity and sedentary behaviour: An exploratory study.PloS one · 2022Article
- GPS2space: An Open-source Python Library for Spatial Measure Extraction from GPS Data.Journal of behavioral data science · 2021Article
- Community transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is associated with activity space overlap in Lima, Peru.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Activity space metrics not associated with sociodemographic variables, diet or health outcomes in the Seattle Obesity Study II.Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundPhysical activity (PA) is closely linked with child and youth health, and active travel may be a solution to enhancing PA levels. Activity spaces depict the geographic coverage of one's travel. Little is known about activity spaces and PA in adolescents.
objectiveTo explore the relation between adolescent travel (using a spatial measure of activity space size) and daily moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA), with a focus on school days.
methodsIn Fall 2012, we used Global Positioning Systems to manually identify trips and generate activity spaces for each person-day; quantified by area for 39 students (13.8±0.6 years, 38% female) attending high school in urban Downtown Vancouver, Canada. We assessed the association between activity space area and MVPA using multi-level regression. We calculated total, school-day and trip-based MVPA for each valid person-day (accelerometry; ≥ 600 min wear time).
resultsOn school days, students accrued 68.2 min/day (95% CI 60.4-76.0) of MVPA. Daily activity spaces averaged 2.2 km
conclusionSchool and school travel are important sources of PA in Vancouver adolescents, irrespective of activity space area covered.
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