Neighborhood walkability, neighborhood social health, and self-selection among U.S. adults.

Objectives: Neighborhood walkability is favorably related to multiple physical health outcomes, but associations with social health are less clear. Present analyses examined how neighborhood walkability was related to neighborhood social health and explored the potential confounding role of neighborhood self-selection.

Methods: Cross-sectional data were analyzed for 1745 adults, ages 20-66, recruited from two US regions.

Design and rationale for the supermarket and web-based intervention targeting nutrition (SuperWIN) for cardiovascular risk reduction trial.

Purpose: The prevalence of chronic diseases is increasing largely due to suboptimal dietary habits. It is not known whether individualized, supermarket-based, nutrition education delivered by registered dietitians, utilizing the advantages of the in-store and online environments, and electronically collected purchasing data, can increase dietary quality.

Methods And Results: The supermarket and web-based intervention targeting nutrition (SuperWIN) for cardiovascular risk reduction trial is a randomized, controlled dietary intervention study.

The Health and economic effects of light rail lines: design, methods, and protocol for a natural experiment.

Background: The health impacts of community design have been studied extensively over the past two decades. In particular, public transportation use is associated with more walking between transit stops and shops, work, home and other destinations. Change in transit access has been linked with physical activity and obesity but seldom to health outcomes and associated costs, especially within a causal framework.

Child and parent reports of children's depressive symptoms in relation to children's weight loss response in family-based obesity treatment.

Background: Studies of the association between children's depressive symptoms and obesity treatment response show mixed results. Different measurement may contribute to the inconsistent findings, as children's depressive symptoms are often based on parent-report about their child rather than child self-report.

Objectives: We assessed both child- and parent-report of child depressive symptoms as predictors of children's obesity treatment response.

Latent profile analysis of young adolescents' physical activity across locations on schooldays.

Purpose: To investigate whether adolescents cluster into profiles based on where they accumulate moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), if overall MVPA differs across profiles, and if walking to school and participant and neighborhood characteristics explain profile membership.

Methods: Adolescents (N=528; mean age=14.12±1.

Home and neighbourhood built environment features in family-based treatment for childhood obesity.

Background: Family-based behavioural weight loss treatment (FBT) for childhood obesity helps families develop strategies to facilitate healthy choices in their home and other environments (e.g. home neighbourhood).

Work and Home Neighborhood Design and Physical Activity.

Purpose: To investigate relations of perceived worksite neighborhood environments to total physical activity and active transportation, over and above home neighborhood built environments.

Design: Observational epidemiologic study.

Setting: Baltimore, Maryland-Washington, DC, and Seattle-King County, Washington metropolitan areas.

Within-person associations of young adolescents' physical activity across five primary locations: is there evidence of cross-location compensation?

Background: Youth are active in multiple locations, but it is unknown whether more physical activity in one location is associated with less in other locations. This cross-sectional study examines whether on days with more physical activity in a given location, relative to their typical activity in that location, youth had less activity in other locations (i.e.

Geographic variation in the relationship between body mass index and the built environment.

Studies examining associations between weight status and neighborhood built environment (BE) have shown inconsistent results and have generally focused on urban settings. However, many Americans do not live in metropolitan areas and BE impacts may be different outside of metropolitan areas. We sought to examine whether the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and neighborhood BE exists and varies by geographic region across small towns in the United States.

Reduced-Item Food Audits Based on the Nutrition Environment Measures Surveys.

Introduction: The community food environment may contribute to obesity by influencing food choice. Store and restaurant audits are increasingly common methods for assessing food environments, but are time consuming and costly. A valid, reliable brief measurement tool is needed.

Neighborhood environment and psychosocial correlates of adults' physical activity.

Background: There is growing interest in identifying neighborhood environment factors related to physical activity.

Purpose: This study aimed to examine whether objective built (e.g.