Trial reportJournal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine2016
The Influence of Neighborhood Crime on Increases in Physical Activity during a Pilot Physical Activity Intervention in Children.
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- Predictors of racial differences in weight loss: the PROPEL trial.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2024Trial
- Integrating Crime Prevention and Health Promotion Programs for School-Aged Children to Decrease Anti-Social Behaviours.Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2025Review
- Association between neighborhood environment and self-reported and objectively measured physical activity in Hispanic families.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- The neighborhood food environment modifies the association between infant feeding and childhood obesity.BMC public health · 2024Article
- New insights in the mechanisms of weight-loss maintenance: Summary from a Pennington symposium.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2023Review
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- The neighborhood food environment modifies the effect of the 2009 WIC food package change on childhood obesity in Los Angeles County, California.BMC public health · 2020Article
- A commercially available crime index may be a reliable alternative to actual census-tract crime in an urban area.Preventive medicine reports · 2020Article
- The neighborhood social environment and physical activity: a systematic scoping review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2019Article
- Actual neighborhood-level crime predicts body mass index z-score changes in a multi-racial/ethnic sample of children.Preventive medicine reports · 2018Article
- Neighborhood Crime and Sexual Transmission Risk Behavior among Black Men Living with HIV.Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · 2018Article
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine whether neighborhood crime moderated the response (increases in steps) to a pilot intervention to increase physical activity in children. Twenty-seven insufficiently active children aged 6-10 years (mean age = 8.7 years; 56 % female; 59 % African American) were randomly assigned to an intensive intervention group (IIG) or minimal intervention group (MIG). Change in average daily number of steps from baseline was regressed against an index of neighborhood crime in a multilevel repeated-measures model that included a propensity score to reduce confounding. Safer neighborhoods were associated with higher increases in steps during the pilot intervention (interaction p = 0.008). Children in the IIG living in low-crime neighborhoods significantly increased their physical activity (5275 ± 1040 steps/day) while those living in high-crime neighborhoods did not (1118 ± 1007) (p for difference = 0.046). In the IIG, the increase in daily steps was highly correlated with neighborhood crime (r = 0.58, p = 0.04). These findings suggest the need for physical activity interventions to account for participants' environments in their design and/or delivery. To promote healthy behaviors in less-supportive environments, future studies should seek to understand how environments modify intervention response and to identify mediators of the relationship between environment and intervention.
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