Neighborhood environment and children's physical activity and body mass index: evidence from military personnel installation assignments.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The majority of existing studies use observed, rather than experimental or quasi-experimental, variation in individuals' neighborhood environments to study their influence on body weight and related behaviors.

Purpose

This study leverages the periodic relocation of military personnel to examine the relationship between neighborhood environment and children's physical activity (PA) and BMI in military families.

Methods

This study utilizes data on 12- and 13-year-old children from the Military Teenagers Environments, Exercise, and Nutrition Study (N=903). Multivariate regression models are estimated, separately for families living on- and off-post, to examine the relationship between parents' perceptions of the neighborhood environment, measured using the Nei

SUBMITTER: Datar A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5695732 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature