Environmental Factors Associated with Physical Activity in Rural U.S. Counties.

ABSTRACT: Rural U.S. adults' prevalence of meeting physical activity (PA) guidelines is lower than urban adults, yet rural-urban differences in environmental influences of adults' PA are largely unknown. The study's objective was to identify rural-urban variations in environmental factors associated with the prevalence of adults meeting PA guidelines. County-level data for non-frontier counties (n = 2697) were used. A five-category rurality variable was created using the percentage of a county's population living in a rural area. Factor scores from Factor Analyses (FA) were used in subsequent Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) analyses stratified by rurality to identify associations between environmental factor scores and the prevalence of males and females meeting PA guidelines. FA revealed a 13-vari

SUBMITTER: Abildso CG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8307667 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature