TY - JOUR
T1 - Association Between Weather and Physical Activity in Baltimore Teens
AU - O'Neill, Allison H.
AU - Lee, Sunmin
AU - Yan, Alice
AU - Voorhees, Carolyn C.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by Grant No. 052338 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Active Living Research Program (Voorhees, C. C., Principal Investigator).
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2013/1
Y1 - 2013/1
N2 - Previous studies have suggested that environmental characteristics such as weather may affect physical activity (PA) patterns; however, this association has not been studied in urban teenagers. PA data (measured by accelerometry) from 331 predominately urban, African American (70%) high school students from the Baltimore Active Living Teens Study were analyzed. Daily temperature and precipitation were significantly associated with PA. After adjusting for age, race, gender, and maternal education, for every 10°F increase, average moderate PA increased by 2.5 min (95% confidence interval [CI] = [0.5, 4.6]). Days with precipitation had on average 0.30 fewer minutes of vigorous PA (95% CI = [0.03, 0.56]) compared with days without precipitation. There were no significant associations between Air Quality Index or hours of daylight and PA. In conclusion, weather was associated with adolescents' PA, which suggests a need for a more diverse array of PA options not affected by weather.
AB - Previous studies have suggested that environmental characteristics such as weather may affect physical activity (PA) patterns; however, this association has not been studied in urban teenagers. PA data (measured by accelerometry) from 331 predominately urban, African American (70%) high school students from the Baltimore Active Living Teens Study were analyzed. Daily temperature and precipitation were significantly associated with PA. After adjusting for age, race, gender, and maternal education, for every 10°F increase, average moderate PA increased by 2.5 min (95% confidence interval [CI] = [0.5, 4.6]). Days with precipitation had on average 0.30 fewer minutes of vigorous PA (95% CI = [0.03, 0.56]) compared with days without precipitation. There were no significant associations between Air Quality Index or hours of daylight and PA. In conclusion, weather was associated with adolescents' PA, which suggests a need for a more diverse array of PA options not affected by weather.
KW - accelerometry
KW - adolescents
KW - physical activity
KW - weather
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U2 - 10.1177/0013916511415517
DO - 10.1177/0013916511415517
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84871487703
SN - 0013-9165
VL - 45
SP - 138
EP - 151
JO - Environment and Behavior
JF - Environment and Behavior
IS - 1
ER -