A study of community design, greenness, and physical activity in children using satellite, GPS and accelerometer data

作者：Almanza, Estela^*; Jerrett, Michael; Dunton, Genevieve; Seto, Edmund; Pentz, Mary Ann

来源：Health & Place, 2012, 18(1): 46-54.

DOI：10.1016/j.healthplace.2011.09.003

• Physical activity
• GPS
• Greenspace
• Built environment
• Smart growth
• Obesity

This study examined relationships between greenness exposure and free-living physical activity behavior of children in smart growth and conventionally designed communities. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) was used to quantify children's (n=208) greenness exposure at 30-s epoch accelerometer and GPS data points. A generalized linear mixed model with a kernel density smoothing term for addressing spatial autocorrelation was fit to analyze residential neighborhood activity data. Excluding activity at home and during school-hours, an epoch-level analysis found momentary greenness exposure was positively associated with the likelihood of contemporaneous moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). This association was stronger for smart growth residents who experienced a 39% increase in odds of MVPA for a 10th to 90th percentile increase in exposure to greenness (OR=1.39, 95% CI 1.36-1.44). An individual-level analysis found children who experienced > 20 min of daily exposure to greener spaces ( > 90th percentile) engaged in nearly 5 times the daily rate of MVPA of children with nearly zero daily exposure to greener spaces (95% CI 3.09-7.20).

• 出版日期2012-1