What is the association between healthy weight in 4-5-year-old children and spatial access to purposefully constructed play areas?

Health & Place
Robin Poole, Graham Moon

Abstract

Childhood obesity is a global issue. Understanding associated factors is essential in designing interventions to reduce its prevalence. There are knowledge gaps concerning the leptogenic potential of play areas for very young children and particularly whether there is an association between levels of childhood obesity and play area quality. A cross-sectional observational study was conducted to investigate whether spatial access to play areas had an association with healthy weight status of 4-5-year-old children. Data from the English National Childhood Measurement Programme 2012/13 was used to measure healthy weight status and a geographic information system was used to calculate (a) the number of purposefully constructed play areas within 1km (density), and (b) the distance to nearest play area (proximity), from child's residential postcode. A play area quality score was included in predictive models. Multilevel modelling was used to adjust for the clustering of observations by school. Adjustment was also made for the effects of gender and deprivation. 77% of children had a healthy weight status (≥2nd and <85th centile). In a fully adjusted multilevel model there was no statistically significant association between healthy we...Continue Reading

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Mar 5, 2020·Pediatric Obesity·Meghann MearsAnna Jorgensen
Jul 30, 2020·Obesity Reviews : an Official Journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity·Kun MeiPeng Jia
Apr 30, 2019·Obesity Reviews : an Official Journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity·Sam WildingNisreen A Alwan
Dec 4, 2021·Obesity Reviews : an Official Journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity·Diego MalacarneDaniela Fecht

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