Active children use more locations for physical activity

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• Alternative Title:
  Health Place
• Personal Author:
  Corder, Kirsten ; Sallis, James F ; Crespo, Noe C ; Elder, John P
• Description:
  We examined frequency of use of 11 physical activity (PA) locations among 539 San Diego children (45.0% males, 41.2% Latinos; mean ± SD age: 6.6 ± 0.7 years) and explored associations between location use, PA and potential correlates. Parents reported child's use (visits/week) of 11 locations. Child PA was assessed by accelerometry (subsample n = 178). The most frequently used locations (mean ± SD times/week) were homes (3.2 ± 2.3) and parks/playground (1.6 ± 1.3). Children used 4.0 ± 2.0 locations in a typical week, and made a total of 12.5 ± 6.8 visits/week to all locations. Latinos used fewer locations regularly (3.6 ± 2.1 vs. 4.3 ± 1.9 locations; p < 0.001) and had fewer visits to all locations (11.4 ± 7.4 vs. 13.2 ± 6.4 visits/week; p = 0.003) than non-Latinos. Accelerometry-assessed vigorous PA (VPA) was positively associated with the number of locations regularly used (ß = 0.04, p = 0.03) and total visits to all locations among Latinos (ß = 0.09, p = 0.005). Parental PA support was positively associated with locations used (ß = 0.64, p < 0.001) and visits to all locations (ß = 2.56, p < 0.001). Children using a greater variety of locations did more VPA. Latinos making more total visits to all locations had higher VPA.
• Subjects:
  California Child Child, Preschool Environment Design Female Humans Male Motor Activity Randomized Controlled Trials As Topic Residence Characteristics Surveys And Questionnaires

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• Keywords:
  Children Correlates Latino Location Parents Physical Activity
• Source:
  Health Place. 2011; 17(4):911-919
• Pubmed ID:
  21550836
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC3773605
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  MC_U106179474/MRC_/Medical Research CouncilUnited Kingdom/ ; 087636/WT_/Wellcome TrustUnited Kingdom/ ; R01 DK072994/DK/NIDDK NIH HHSUnited States/ ; T32 HL079891/HL/NHLBI NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U48 DP000036/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/ ; F31KD079345/PHS HHSUnited States/ ; R01DK072994/DK/NIDDK NIH HHSUnited States/ ; T32HL079891/HL/NHLBI NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U48DP000036/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  17
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
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  urn:sha-512:3fea2658f971a26a84a716f14b35fb54a3b163165fad7dff12fd6e33f3ec342789161d10bbf2269d1309a0d010593c6d049aafd861fc45bb6896bc797002e5db
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/33626/cdc_33626_DS1.pdf
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