AA Lake
Exploring the built environment, physical activity and related behaviours of young people attending school, college and those not in employment
Lake, AA; Townshend, TG.
Authors
TG. Townshend
Abstract
Background: Evidence suggests that environments impact behaviour, including physical activity (PA). The aim was to understand where young people are physically active and the environmental contexts to their activity. To explore how they perceived both barriers to, and enablers for, PA in their environment. Methods: Focus groups were conducted with five groups aged 16–20 years (n = 42; 29 male, 13 female) in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England between November 2006 and June 2007. Analysis was an iterative process of looking for broad themes and subthemes across the transcripts. Results: Themes explored included their main environment; perceptions of their environment; PA and where they are active; activity in the past and safety concerns. Emergent themes included working and PA, transport and activity, limitations of the environment to PA and gender differences. Our results suggest PA was distributed across a range of environments, rather than focused in one locale, or setting. Conclusions: Obesity in young people is a major concern and prevention of obesity a high priority. Little is known about the PA behaviours of this age group and the context of these behaviours during this period of transition. Understanding lifestyle behaviours such as PA and context of activity is an important first step in development interventions to encourage greater activity in this transitory age group.
Citation
Lake, A., & Townshend, T. (2013). Exploring the built environment, physical activity and related behaviours of young people attending school, college and those not in employment. Journal of Public Health, 35(1), 57-66. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fds059
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Jan 1, 2013 |
Deposit Date | Jun 21, 2012 |
Publicly Available Date | Aug 6, 2013 |
Journal | Journal of Public Health |
Print ISSN | 1741-3842 |
Electronic ISSN | 1741-3850 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 35 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 57-66 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fds059 |
Keywords | Obesity, Obesogenic environments, Perceptions, Physical activity, Transitions, Young people. |
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This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Journal of public health following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Lake, A.A. and Townshend, T.G. (2013) 'Exploring the built environment, physical activity and related behaviours of young people attending school, college and those not in employment.', Journal of public health., 35 (1). pp. 57-66.
is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/FDS059
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