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Built environment and physical activity in New Zealand adolescents: a protocol for a cross-sectional study by Erica A Hinckson; Scott Duncan; Melody Oliver; Suzanne Mavoa; Ester Cerin; Hannah Badland; Tom Stewart; Vivienne Ivory; Julia McPhee; Grant Schofield is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Introduction Built-environment interventions have the potential to provide population-wide effects and the means for a sustained effect on behaviour change. Population-wide effects for adult physical activity have been shown with selected built environment attributes; however, the association between the built environment and adolescent health behaviours is less clear. This New Zealand study is part of an international project across 10 countries (International Physical Activity and the Environment Network–adolescents) that aims to characterise the links between built environment and adolescent health outcomes. ## Methods and analyses An observational, cross-sectional study of the associations between measures of the built environment with physical activity, sedentary behaviour, body size and social connectedness in 1600 New Zealand adolescents aged 12–18 years will be conducted in 2013–2014. Walkability and neighbourhood destination accessibility indices will be objectively measured using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Physical activity and sedentary behaviours will be objectively measured using accelerometers over seven consecutive days. Body mass index will be calculat
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- Author
- Erica A Hinckson; Scott Duncan; Melody Oliver; Suzanne Mavoa; Ester Cerin; Hannah Badland; Tom Stewart; Vivienne Ivory; Julia McPhee; Grant Schofield
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)