Backyard benefits? A cross-sectional study of yard size and greenness and children's physical activity and outdoor play.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The home environment is the most important location in young children's lives, yet few studies have examined the relationship between the outdoor home environment and child physical activity levels, and even fewer have used objectively measured exposures and outcomes. This study examined relationships between objectively assessed home yard size and greenness, and child physical activity and outdoor play.

Methods

Data were drawn from the HealthNuts study, a longitudinal study of 5276 children in Melbourne, Australia. We used cross-sectional data from a sample at Wave 3 (2013-2016) when participants were aged 6 years (n = 1648). A sub-sample of 391 children had valid accelerometer data collected from Tri-axial GENEActive accelerometers worn on their non-dominant wri

SUBMITTER: Oakley J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8283889 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature