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ArticleUrban forestry & urban greening2017

Access to parks and physical activity: an eight country comparison.

Jasper Schipperijn, Ester Cerin, Marc A Adams, Rodrigo Reis, Graham Smith, Kelli Cain, Lars B Christiansen, Delfien van Dyck, Christopher Gidlow, Lawrence D Frank and 5 more

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Article in Urban forestry & urban greening, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

57 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Jasper SchipperijnResearch Unit for Active Living, Department of Sport Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
Ester CerinInstitute for Health and Ageing, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Marc A AdamsSchool of Nutrition and Health Promotion and Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
Rodrigo ReisPrevention Research Center, Brown School, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MS, USA.
Graham SmithStaffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK.
Kelli CainDepartment of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Diego, USA.
Lars B ChristiansenResearch Unit for Active Living, Department of Sport Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
Delfien van DyckDepartment of Movement and Sport Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Christopher GidlowCenter for Sport, Health and Exercise Research, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK.
Lawrence D FrankHealth and Community Design Lab, Schools of Population and Public Health and Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Josef MitášInstitute of Active Lifestyle, Faculty of Physical Culture, Palacký University, Czech Republic.
Michael PrattDepartment of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Diego, USA.
Deborah SalvoDepartment of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, & Michael and Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, Austin Regional Campus, Austin, TX, USA.
Grant SchofieldHuman Potential Centre, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.
James F SallisDepartment of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Diego, USA.

Funding

IPEN: International Study of Built Environment, Physical Activity, and ObesityR01CA127296 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI SALLIS, JAMES F. · 2009 to 2012
$2.5M
Ecological Analysis of Physical ActivityR01HL067350 · NHLBI · SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI SALLIS, JAMES F. · 2001 to 2004
$2.5M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA127296NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL067350
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several systematic reviews have reported mixed associations between access to parks and physical activity, and suggest that this is due to inconsistencies in the study methods or differences across countries. An international study using consistent methods is needed to investigate the association between access to parks and physical activity. The International Physical Activity and Environment Network (IPEN) Adult Study is a multi-country cross-sectional study using a common design and consistent methods. Accelerometer, survey and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data for 6,181 participants from 12 cities in 8 countries (Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, Mexico, New Zealand, UK, USA) were used to estimate the strength and shape of associations of 11 measures of park access (1 perceived and 10 GIS-based measures) with accelerometer-based moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and four types of self-reported leisure-time physical activity. Associations were estimated using generalized additive mixed models. More parks within 1 km from participants' homes were associated with greater leisure-time physical activity and accelerometer-measured MVPA. Respondents who lived in the neighborhoods with the most parks did on average 24 minutes more MVPA per week than those living in the neighborhoods with the lowest number of parks. Perceived proximity to a park was positively associated with multiple leisure-time physical activity outcomes. Associations were homogeneous across all cities studied. Living in neighborhoods with many parks could contribute with up to 1/6 of the recommended weekly Having multiple parks nearby was the strongest positive correlate of PA. To increase comparability and validity of park access measures, we recommend that researchers, planners and policy makers use the number of parks within 1 km travel distance of homes as an objective indicator for park access in relation to physical activity.

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accelerometryexerciseGISIPENleisure-timemulti-countryrecreation

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PMCPMC5967254

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