How disability severity is associated with changes in physical activity and inactivity from adolescence to young adulthood.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Disabilities may play a different role in determining people's physical activity (PA) and physical inactivity (PI) levels when they go through multiple lifetime transitions (e.g., graduation, marriage) between adolescence and young adulthood. This study investigates how disability severity is associated with changes in PA and PI engagement levels, focusing on adolescence and young adulthood, when the patterns of PA and PI are usually formed.

Methods

The study employed data from Waves 1 (adolescence) and 4 (young adulthood) of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which covers a total of 15,701 subjects. We first categorized subjects into 4 disability groups: no, minimal, mild, or moderate/severe disability and/or limitation. We then calculated the

SUBMITTER: Jung J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9942288 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature