A Longitudinal Analysis of the Influence of the Neighborhood Environment on Recreational Walking within the Neighborhood: Results from RESIDE.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is limited longitudinal evidence confirming the role of neighborhood environment attributes in encouraging people to walk more or if active people simply choose to live in activity-friendly neighborhoods. Natural experiments of policy changes to create more walkable communities provide stronger evidence for a causal effect of neighborhood environments on residents' walking.

Objectives

We aimed to investigate longitudinal associations between objective and perceived neighborhood environment measures and neighborhood recreational walking.

Methods

We analyzed longitudinal data collected over 8 yr (four surveys) from the RESIDential Environments (RESIDE) Study (Perth, Australia, 2003-2012). At each time point, participants reported the frequency and total

SUBMITTER: Christian H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5744655 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature