Understanding perceived park access and physical activity among ...

Parks can provide a low-cost setting for safe physical activity, but older adults are underrepresented among park users in the United States.

Parks can provide a low-cost setting for safe physical activity, but older adults are underrepresented among park users in the United States. Using data from a ...

Understanding perceived park access and physical activity among ...

PDF | On May 16, 2024, Dustin Fry and others published Understanding perceived park access and physical activity among older adults: A ...

Associations of park access, park use and physical activity in parks ...

While perceived park access was strongly associated with park use and well-being, true park access was not, and neither park access measure was associated with ...

Access to parks and physical activity: an eight country comparison

Perceived proximity to a park was positively associated with multiple leisure-time physical activity outcomes. Associations were homogeneous across all cities ...

Parks & Recreation in Underserved Areas

This paper takes a closer look at how park use and physical activity levels are influenced by the following factors: distribution and access to public parks and ...

Park access affects physical activity: New evidence from geolocated ...

for urban space studies to understand the link between park access and physical activity. ... “Perceived and objective environmental measures and physical ...

The significance of parks to physical activity and public health

This study proposes a conceptual model to guide thinking and suggest hypotheses. This framework describes the relationships between park benefits, park use, ...

Association of perceived and objective park access with physical ...

Specifically, adolescents living in walking distance of a park and those who recently visited a park were more likely to engage in regular physical activity.

Understanding perceived park access and physical activity among ...

List of references · Ball, Mismatch between perceived and objective measures of physical activity environments, Prev. · Boehmer, Correspondence between perceived ...

Association of psychosocial and perceived environmental factors ...

Urban parks play an important role in promoting physical activity (PA) among adults and especially among older city residents.

Associations with Physical Activity and Body Mass Index

In addition to relationships found between perceived park quality and physical activity measures, BMI was also associated with perceived benefit ...

The physical and non-physical factors that influence perceived ...

Semantic Scholar extracted view of "The physical and non-physical factors that influence perceived access to urban parks" by Dong Wang et al.

A Quantitative Examination of Park Characteristics Related to Park ...

Comparing perceived and objectively measured access to recreational facilities as predictors of physical activity in adolescent girls. J Urban Health 2007;. 84( ...

A GIS and text mining analysis on children's activity in Atlanta's ...

Understanding public perceptions and expectations of how urban park environments influence children's activity could attenuate social and ...

Physical Activity Among Adolescents

This study examined whether the relationship between physical activity and access to parks differs depending on adolescents' sociodemographic, housing, and.

The Health Benefits of Parks and their Economic Impacts

... among those with positive park ... of California youth suggested that perceived park quality and access is correlated with physical activity.

The association of park use and park perception with quality of life ...

Discussion: Having well-perceived parks appears to be an important factor for QoL independent of park use, suggesting that quality parks may benefit everyone in ...

Association between Park Visitation and Physical Activity among ...

Adults were more commonly seen in the parks than other age groups, while higher socioeconomic status and education levels were also positively correlated with a ...

The Power of Parks to Promote Health - Trust for Public Land

It found that park and playground access was “significantly associated” with increased physical activity, especially on weekdays, and ...