Are Perceived Neighborhood Hazards a Barrier to Physical Activity in Children?

Romero, Andrea J.; Robinson, Thomas N.; Kraemer, Helena C.; Erickson, Sarah J.; Haydel, K. Farish; Mendoza, Fernando; Killen, Joel D.

doi:10.1001/archpedi.155.10.1143

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“…We anticipated all indices would differ by group, particularly neighborhood safety since the poorest neighborhoods often have the most violence and crime. 73,74 Still, the majority of indices demonstrated differences supporting the contention that even among low-income families, those with lower incomes have a poorer quality of life.…”

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Community- versus Individual-Level Indicators to Identify Pediatric Health Care Need

Zlotnick¹

2006

J Urban Health

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Increasingly, geographic information systems employing spatial data are being used to identify communities with poorer health care status. Since health care indicators are strongly linked to income, could these data, usually based on adult indicators, be used for pediatric health care need? We hypothesized that individuallevel indicators such as quality of life scales (QOL) would be better than communitylevel indicators at identifying families with poorer health care practices. Surveys and medical record reviews were used for a sample of 174 caregivers of young children. Lower level of income was associated with poorer scores on several QOL domains, and on the primary health practices (i.e., non-urgent emergency room use and lack of age-appropriate immunization status). One community-level indicator, the medically underserved area (MUA), was almost as good as the best individual-level indicators at predicting primary health care practices. The community-level indicator of MUA appears to meet its initial intent, providing information on the location of very lowincome individuals with high health care need even among a sample of Medicaidinsured children with an identified health care provider.

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Community- versus Individual-Level Indicators to Identify Pediatric Health Care Need

Zlotnick¹

2006

J Urban Health

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“…A survey of 796 fourth-g rade American students and their parents/guardians found no evidence to support the common assertion that children from neighbourhoods of lower socio-economic status do not engage in physical activity because of neighbourhood dangers. 26 It appears that parents are more concer ned about the injury risk associated with playing a par ticular sport or activity than about the safety of their neighbourhood.…”

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Parental safety concerns – a barrier to sport and physical activity in children?

Boufous

Finch

Bauman

2004

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Objective: To examine the extent to which parents and carers perceive injury and safety risks as serious enough to prevent or discourage their children, aged 5-12 years, from participating in sports/physical activity and to identify factors that influence these because of injury and safety concerns. In boys, the most frequently discouraged spor t was rugby league (23.2%), followed by rugby union (7.5%) and Australian rules football (2.8%). Among girls, the most frequently discouraged activities were rollerblading (2.7%), rugby league (2.3%) and soccer (2.1%). Multivariate analysis shows that factors independently associated with parents' decision to prevent/discourage their child from engaging in sport/physical activity include their child's age and gender, language spoken at home, presence of disability, and the respondent's relation to the child. Conclusions and implications:Efforts need to be made to modify some sports/ activities, such as football codes, in order to minimise injury and to ensure that children continue enjoying their favourite activity well into adulthood. Guidelines designed to promote physical activity among children and young adolescents need to take into account parental concerns regarding the associated risk of injury.

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“…5 A study conducted by Romero et al showed a positive relationship between perceived neighborhood hazards and physical activities, but only in high SES subjects. 26 Three other studies conducted in various subgroups, however, showed no significant relationship between perceived neighborhood safety and physical activity. 1,18,23 Although these studies indicate that perceived neighborhood factors are a barrier to physical activity, they are not uniform.…”

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Is There a Relationship Between Perceived Neighborhood Contentedness and Physical Activity in Young Men and Women

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The relationship between perceived neighborhood contentedness and physical activity was evaluated in the Add Health study population. Wave I includes 20,745 respondents (collected between 1994 and 1995) and wave II includes 14,738 (71 %) of these same students (collected in 1996). Multinomial logistic regression was used to evaluate this relationship in both wave I and wave II of the sample. Higher levels of Perceived Neighborhood Contentedness were associated with higher reports of physical activity in both males and females and in both waves. For every one-point increment in PNS, males were 1.3 times as likely to report being highly physically active than low (95 % CI 1.23-1.37) in wave 1 and 1.25 times as likely in wave 2 (95 % CI 1.17-1.33). Females were 1.17 (95 % CI 1.12-1.22) times as likely to report being highly active than low and 1.22 times as likely in wave 2 (95 % CI 1.17-1.27) with every one-point increment. PNC appears to be significantly associated with physical activity in adolescents. Involving the community in the development of intervention programs could help to raise the contentedness of adolescents in these communities.

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Are Perceived Neighborhood Hazards a Barrier to Physical Activity in Children?

Cited by 84 publications

References 26 publications

Community- versus Individual-Level Indicators to Identify Pediatric Health Care Need

Community- versus Individual-Level Indicators to Identify Pediatric Health Care Need

Parental safety concerns – a barrier to sport and physical activity in children?

Is There a Relationship Between Perceived Neighborhood Contentedness and Physical Activity in Young Men and Women

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