ArticlePreventive medicine reports2016
Sedentary behavior among adults: The role of community belonging.
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- Factors associated with community commitment among older adults: a stratified analysis of community group leaders and members.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
- Planning for a Healthy Aging Program to Reduce Sedentary Behavior: Perceptions among Diverse Older Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Independence and Sex Differences in Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Trends from Middle Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood: A Latent Class Growth Curve Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Sedentary Behavior and Happiness: The Mediation Effects of Social Capital.Innovation in aging · 2021Article
- Magnitude of sedentary behavior and associated factors among secondary school adolescents in Debre Berhan town, Ethiopia.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Relationships between psychological distress and health behaviors among Canadian adults: Differences based on gender, income, education, immigrant status, and ethnicity.SSM - population health · 2019Article
- Self-reported domain-specific and accelerometer-based physical activity and sedentary behaviour in relation to psychological distress among an urban Asian population.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2018Article
- Low Levels of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in Adults with Intellectual Disabilities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Article
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Abstract
Sedentary behavior is a modifiable determinant of health. Little is known about the ways in which contextual factors may influence this behavior. The objectives of this study were to: (1) examine the association between community belonging and adult sedentary behavior during leisure; (2) determine if this association was explained by perceived health. Data were derived from the 2010 Canadian Community Health Survey (N = 11,494 adults). Multinomial regression models and 99% confidence intervals were used to examine associations between sense of community belonging and sedentary behavior, adjusting for sociodemographic variables and perceived health. On average, adults were sedentary for 20-24 h per week during leisure. More than a third of the sample reported low sedentary behavior (≤ 19 h a week). In a fully adjusted model participants who were female, in middle adulthood, married, and/or living in higher income households were less sedentary during leisure. Adults with a strong sense of community belonging were also significantly less sedentary during leisure; this association remained significant after adjustment for perceived mental and overall health. Most efforts to address sedentary behavior have focused on individual-level interventions. The present finding highlights the role that larger contextual factors may play in sedentary behavior. Sense of community belonging is a contextual determinant of health that may serve as a useful target for interventions designed to reduce adult sedentary behavior during leisure.
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