Development of a neighborhood obesogenic built environment characteristics index for the Netherlands.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Environmental factors that drive obesity are often studied individually, whereas obesogenic environments are likely to consist of multiple factors from food and physical activity (PA) environments. This study aimed to compose and describe a comprehensive, theory-based, expert-informed index to quantify obesogenicity for all neighborhoods in the Netherlands.

Methods

The Obesogenic Built Environment CharacterisTics (OBCT) index consists of 17 components. The index was calculated as an average of componential scores across both food and PA environments and was scaled from 0 to 100. The index was visualized and summarized with sensitivity analysis for weighting methods.

Results

The OBCT index for all 12,821 neighborhoods was right-skewed, with a median of 44.6 (

SUBMITTER: Lam TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10108038 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature