Association between residential self-selection and non-residential built environment exposures.
Health Place
; 54: 149-154, 2018 11.
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ABSTRACT
Studies employing 'activity space' measures of the built environment do not always account for how individuals self-select into different residential and non-residential environments when testing associations with physical activity. To date, no study has examined whether preferences for walkable residential neighborhoods predict exposure to other walkable neighborhoods in non-residential activity spaces. Using a sample of 9783 university students from Toronto, Canada, we assessed how self-reported preferences for a walkable neighborhood predicted their exposure to other walkable, non-residential environments, and further whether these preferences confounded observed walkability-physical activity associations. We found that residential walkability preferences and non-residential walkability were significant associated (ßâ¯=â¯0.42, 95% CI (0.37, 0.47)), and further that these preferences confounded associations between non-residential walkability exposure and time spent walking (reduction in association = 10.5%). These results suggest that self-selection factors affect studies of non-residential built environment exposures.
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Viaje
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Características de la Residencia
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Entorno Construido
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Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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America do norte
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Health Place
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EPIDEMIOLOGIA
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2018
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Article