Purpose: The FLASHE study is designed to collect data in adolescents and their parents in multiple domains of environment and behavior, with a specific focus on family relationships. The FLASHE study will examine the correlates of obesogenic and cancer preventive behaviors among adolescents and their parents across intra- and interpersonal ...
Purpose: To analyze associations between environmental perceptions and health behaviors between children from low (LWA) and high walkability areas (HWA).
Methods: This cross-sectional study includes 102 children (11.6+/-0.7y) from Porto (Portugal) living in areas with high and low GIS-based walkability. Moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and sedentary time was ...
Purpose: To investigate whether time spent outdoors measured objectively by a person wearing a camera is positively related to objectively measured physical activity (PA) time and intensity in adults.
Methods: Adults (N=62, 21-82 years old) wore an ActiGraph accelerometer and Sensecam for 1 to 8 days. Sensecam images were annotated for indoor ...
Purpose: Being outdoors is as a correlate for enhanced physical activity (PA), but the association has seldom been investigated using objective measures. This paper investigates the association between week day outdoor time and context-specific moderate to vigorous PA (MVPA) by gender.
Methods: Children (n=170, 11-16 years old) from the When ...
Purpose: To compare relations of neighborhood walkability and home equipment to (1) total and (2) location-specific physical activity.
Methods: 290 adolescents (M age=14.1±1.4 years; 45% girls; 74.7% White non-Hispanic) wore GPS and accelerometers for 5.4±1.9 days set to record at 30-second epochs. GIS was used to calculate a walkability index (sum of z-scores for density, mixed-use, ...
Purpose: Weather conditions, along with day length, are proposed as the main drivers of the seasonal patterns in children’s physical activity (PA). This study examines the relationship between rainfall and PA among 9-10 year old children in Norfolk, UK, and how this changes as they age.
Methods: Participants were 283 ...
Purpose: Increasing physical activity (PA) may be an important non-pharmacological approach to improve sleep quality but it is not clear how level and timing and co-current light exposure influence sleep quality. PA time outdoors may be more beneficial for sleep, but only recently has it been possible to measure sleep, ...
Purpose: Older adults in retirement communities are among the least active population segment. In a randomized controlled trial, assess whether a multi level intervention including individual, interpersonal and environmental components increased step counts in older adults living in continuing care retirement communities.
Methods: Older adults (average age 83) were recruited from 11 ...
Purpose: Despite benefits associated with physical activity (PA), less than 3% of older adults meet national guidelines. Theoretical
models have suggested social support (SS) as an important construct related to increased PA. The purpose of the present study was to examine the association between SS and objectively measured PA in a ...
Purpose: Environmental characteristics of home neighbourhoods are hypothesised to be associated with residents’ physical activity levels, yet many studies report only weak associations. We propose this is in part a result of inappropriate definitions of what constitutes a neighbourhood. We objectively measured the distance that adolescents roamed from home to ...