Journal article
Associations Between the Neighborhood Environment and Moderate-to-Vigorous Walking in New Zealand Children: Findings from the URBAN Study
LJ McGrath, EA Hinckson, WG Hopkins, S Mavoa, K Witten, G Schofield
Sports Medicine | ADIS INT LTD | Published : 2016
Abstract
Background: Urban design may affect children’s habitual physical activity by influencing active commuting and neighborhood play. Purpose: Our objective was to examine associations between neighborhood built-environment features near children’s homes and objectively measured physical activity. Methods: We used geographical information system (GIS) protocols to select 2016 households from 48 low- and high-walkability neighborhoods within four New Zealand cities. Children (n = 227; mean age ± standard deviation [SD] 9.3 ± 2.1 years) from the selected households wore accelerometers that recorded physical activity in the period 2008–2010. We used multilevel linear models to examine the associatio..
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Awarded by Health Research Council of New Zealand
Funding Acknowledgements
This work was funded by the Health Research Council (HRC) of New Zealand (Grant Numbers: 07/356 and 08/048). Leslie J Mc Grath received a 3-year PhD scholarship of $NZ25,000 p.a., funded by the HRC of New Zealand (Grant Number: 07/356). The funding bodies were not involved in the design, conduct, data collection, management, or publication of the study. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the participants who completed the study, research assistants who collected the data, and the territorial authorities for providing the GIS datasets.