Journal article
Associations between access to recreational physical activity facilities and body mass index in Scottish adults
A Ellaway, KE Lamb, NS Ferguson, D Ogilvie
BMC Public Health | BMC | Published : 2016
Abstract
Background: The aim of this country-wide study was to link individual health and behavioural data with area-level spatial data to examine whether the body mass index (BMI) of adults was associated with access to recreational physical activity (PA) facilities by different modes of transport (bus, car, walking, cycling) and the extent to which any associations were mediated by PA participation. Methods: Data on individual objectively-measured BMI, PA (number of days of (a) ≥20 min of moderate-to-vigorous PA, and (b) ≥15 min of sport or exercise, in previous 4 weeks), and socio-demographic characteristics were obtained from a nationally representative sample of 6365 adults. The number of access..
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Awarded by Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorate
Funding Acknowledgements
This study was funded by the National Prevention Research Initiative (http://www.mrc.ac.uk/research/initiatives/national-preventionresearch-initiative-npri/), with support from the following organisations: Alzheimer's Research Trust; Alzheimer's Society; Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council; British Heart Foundation; Cancer Research UK; Chief Scientist Office, Scottish Government Health Directorate; Department of Health; Diabetes UK; Economic and Social Research Council; Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council; Food Standards Agency; Health and Social Care Research and Development Office for Northern Ireland; Medical Research Council; The Stroke Association; Welsh Assembly Government; and World Cancer Research Fund.A.E. is employed by the University of Glasgow and leads the Neighbourhoods and Communities research programme (MC_UU_12017/10) at the MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, KEL is an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow, D.O. leads the Physical Activity and Public Health research programme (MC_UU_12015/6) at the MRC Epidemiology Unit in Cambridge. D.O. is also supported by the Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), a UKCRC Public Health Research Centre of Excellence. Funding from the British Heart Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Medical Research Council, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and the Wellcome Trust, under the auspices of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration, is gratefully acknowledged.