Changes in activity spaces, life spaces, and exposures to physical activity-promoting environments among women with overweight or obesity.

ABSTRACT: Understanding factors associated with successful adherence and maintenance of weight loss interventions is important to potentially increase efficacy. Activity spaces and environmental exposures are two understudied factors that may be associated with intervention adherence and outcomes. Women with overweight or obesity (n = 498) from two weight loss intervention studies, Reach for Health and Metabolic, Exercise, and Nutrition at University of California San Diego, wore accelerometer and Global Positioning System (GPS) devices for 1 week at baseline and at 6-month follow up. Changes in activity spaces and time spent in three life space domains (Home, Neighborhood, and Beyond Neighborhood) were assessed at the two timepoints for total time and the subset of time in physical activity (PA). R

SUBMITTER: Luo N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12317278 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature