Adults' leisure-time physical activity and the neighborhood built environment: a contextual perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Context-free outcome measures, such as overall leisure-time physical activity (LTPA), are habitually applied to study the neighborhood built environment correlates of physical activity. This cross sectional study identifies and empirically tests potential methodological limitations related to the use of context-free measures and discusses how these may help in the interpretation of inconsistent associations between participation in moderate-to-vigorous LTPA and objectively measured neighborhood-level built environment attributes.

Methods

We employ a public participation geographic information system (PPGIS), an advanced participatory mapping method, to study the spatial distribution of moderate-to-vigorous LTPA among adult urban Finnish residents (n 1322). Seconda

SUBMITTER: Kajosaari A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7488407 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature