ArticleJournal of physical activity & health2023
Moving to an Activity-Friendly Community Can Increase Physical Activity.
Article in Journal of physical activity & health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Cultivating connection between community, agriculture, food, and green space: A narrative review of agrihoods and their impact on health and wellbeing.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2026Review
- Which population-level interventions promote physical activity equitably across socioeconomic groups? A rapid systematic review.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- The Use of Virtual Reality to Alter Physical Activity by Targeting the Built Environment.Current environmental health reports · 2025Review
- Protocol for a naturalistic study of residents living in an agriculturally-integrated ("agrihood") neighborhood.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundCreating activity-friendly communities (AFCs) is an important strategy to increase physical activity (PA). While cross-sectional links between community environments and PA are well documented, their causal relationships remain insufficiently explored.
methodsUsing the accelerometer and survey data collected from adults who moved to an AFC (cases) and similar non-AFC-residing adults who did not move (comparisons), this pre-post, case-comparison study examines if moving to an AFC increases PA. Data came from 115 participants (cases = 37, comparisons = 78) from Austin, Texas, who completed 2 waves of 1-weeklong data collection. Difference-in-difference analyses and fixed-effect models were used to test the significance of the pre-post differences in moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) between cases and comparisons, for the full sample and the subsample of 37 pairs matched in key covariates using the Propensity Score Matching method.
resultsAverage treatment effect generated based on Propensity Score Matching and difference-in-difference showed that moving to this AFC led to an average of 10.88 additional minutes of daily MVPA (76.16 weekly minutes, P = .015). Fixed-effect models echoed the result with an increase of 10.39 minutes of daily MVPA after moving to the AFC. We also found that case participants who were less active at baseline and had higher income increased their MVPA more than their counterparts.
conclusionsThis study showed that, among our study sample, moving to an AFC increased residents' PA significantly when compared to their premove level and the comparison group. This causal evidence suggests the potential of AFCs as sustainable interventions for PA promotion.
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