Personal and environmental correlates of active travel and physical activity in a deprived urban population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Environmental characteristics may be associated with patterns of physical activity in general or with particular types of physical activity such as active travel (walking or cycling for transport). However, most studies in this field have been conducted in North America and Australia, and hypotheses about putative correlates should be tested in a wider range of sociospatial contexts. We therefore examined the contribution of putative personal and environmental correlates of active travel and overall physical activity in deprived urban neighbourhoods in Glasgow, Scotland as part of the baseline for a longitudinal study of the effects of opening a new urban motorway (freeway).

Methods

We conducted a postal survey of a random sample of residents (n = 1322), collectin

SUBMITTER: Ogilvie D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2538543 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature