Is the perceived neighborhood built environment associated with domain-specific physical activity in Latin American adul
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Is the perceived neighborhood built environment associated with domainspecific physical activity in Latin American adults? An eight-country observational study Gerson Ferrari1* , André Oliveira Werneck2, Danilo Rodrigues da Silva3, Irina Kovalskys4, Georgina Gómez5, Attilio Rigotti6, Lilia Yadira Cortés Sanabria7, Martha Yépez García8, Rossina G. Pareja9, Marianella Herrera-Cuenca10, Ioná Zalcman Zimberg11, Viviana Guajardo4, Michael Pratt12, Carlos Cristi-Montero13, Fernando Rodríguez-Rodríguez13, Adilson Marques14,15, Ester Cerin16,17, Delfien Van Dyck18, Carlos Pires19, Mauro Fisberg20,21 and on behalf of the ELANS Study Group
Abstract Background: Characteristics of the neighborhood built environment are associated with physical activity (PA). However, few studies with representative samples have examined environmental correlates of domain-specific PA in Latin America. We examined the associations of the perceived neighborhood built environment with domainspecific PA in a large sample of adults from eight Latin American countries. Methods: This study examined data from 8185 adults (aged 18–65 years) from eight Latin American countries. The Neighbourhood Environment Walkability Survey - Abbreviated (NEWS-A) scale was used to assess perceptions of land use mix–diversity, land use mix-access, street connectivity, walking/cycling facilities, aesthetics, safety from traffic, and safety from crime. Perceived proximity from home to public open spaces (metropolitan parks, playgrounds, public squares) and to shopping centers was also measured. Transport-related and leisure-time PA were assessed using the long form of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire. Both logistic and linear regression models were estimated on pooled data. (Continued on next page)
* Correspondence: [email protected] 1 Laboratorio de Ciencias de la Actividad Física, el Deporte y la Salud, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, USACH, Las Sophoras 175, Estación Central, Santiago, Chile Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecomm
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