Crime rates and sedentary behavior among 4 th grade Texas school children
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Crime rates and sedentary behavior among 4th grade Texas school children H Shelton Brown III*1, Adriana Pérez2, Gita G Mirchandani3, Deanna M Hoelscher4 and Steven H Kelder5 Address: 1Michael & Susan Dell Center for Advancement of Healthy Living, Division of Management, Policy and Community Health, University of Texas School of Public Health, 313 E. 12th Street, Suite 220, Austin, TX 78701, USA, 2Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville, 555 S. Floyd Street, Suite 4026, Louisville, KY 40292, USA, 3Family Health Research and Program Development, Texas Department of State Health Services, Austin, TX 78756, USA, 4Michael & Susan Dell Center for Advancement of Healthy Living, Division of Behavioral Science, University of Texas School of Public Health, 313 E. 12th Street, Suite 220, Austin, TX 78701, USA and 5Michael & Susan Dell Center for Advancement of Healthy Living, Division of Epidemiology, University of Texas School of Public Health, 313 E. 12th Street, Suite 220, Austin, TX 78701, USA Email: H Shelton Brown* - [email protected]; Adriana Pérez - [email protected]; Gita G Mirchandani - [email protected]; Deanna M Hoelscher - [email protected]; Steven H Kelder - [email protected] * Corresponding author
Published: 14 May 2008 International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2008, 5:28 5868-5-28
doi:10.1186/1479-
Received: 18 October 2007 Accepted: 14 May 2008
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Abstract Introduction: Although per capita crime has generally fallen over the period which coincides with the obesity epidemic, it has not fallen uniformly across communities. It also has not fallen enough to allay fears on the part of parents. Over the past 30 years, technological changes have made the indoor alternatives to playing outside, where children are more vulnerable to criminal activity, more enjoyable (cable TV, video games, and the internet) and comfortable (the spread of air conditioning to low income neighborhoods). We determined whether indoor sedentary behavior patterns are associated with community crime statistics. 4th graders in the U.S. are typically 9 or 10 years old. Methods: We used data from the 2004–2005 Texas School Physical Activity and Nutrition (SPAN) survey linked with U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics data for the years 2000 through 2005 and Texas State data on sexual offenders. The probability-based sample included a total of 7,907 children in grade four. Multistage probability sampling weight
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