Showing papers in "American Journal of Preventive Medicine in 2005"

TL;DR: It was concluded that a high level of physical activity at ages 9 to 18, especially when continuous, significantly predicted a highlevel of adult physical activity.

TL;DR: In this article, an observational study examined the influence of attractiveness on the use of POS by observing users of three pairs of high- and low-quality (based on attractiveness) POS matched for size and location.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that community design is significantly associated with moderate levels of physical activity is supported and the rationale for the development of policy that promotes increased levels of land-use mix, street connectivity, and residential density as interventions that can have lasting public health benefits is supported.

TL;DR: Aerobic exercise at a dose consistent with public health recommendations is an effective treatment for MDD of mild to moderate severity and a lower dose is comparable to placebo effect.

TL;DR: A conceptual model is proposed to guide thinking and suggest hypotheses about the relationships between park benefits, park use, and physical activity, and the antecedents/correlates of park use that focus on park environmental characteristics that could be related to physical activity.

TL;DR: Findings indicate that physical activities for transportation or recreational are associated with different perceived and objective environmental characteristics and modifications to these features may change the physical activity behavior of residents exposed to them.

TL;DR: Findings strongly indicate that boys and girls are vulnerable to this form of childhood maltreatment; the similarity in the likelihood for multiple behavioral, mental, and social outcomes among men and women suggests the need to identify and treat all adults affected by CSA.

TL;DR: Walking to and from public transportation can help physically inactive populations, especially low-income and minority groups, attain the recommended level of daily physical activity.

TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between urban form changes and walking and bicycle travel to school and found that children who passed completed SR2S projects were more likely to show increases in walking or bicycle travel than were children who would not pass by projects (15% vs 4%).

TL;DR: Sedentary behavior, including TV viewing, is moderately stable during middle childhood, and health promotion programs that specifically target maintaining high levels of vigorous activity and low levels of TV viewing may help reduce the increasing prevalence of childhood obesity.

TL;DR: In primary school-aged children, walking to school is associated with higher levels of overall physical activity compared with those who travel to school by motorized transport.

TL;DR: Evidence exists that WHPPs that include environmental modifications can influence dietary intake, and more controlled studies of high methodologic quality need to be initiated that investigate the effects of environmental interventions on dietary intake and especially on physical activity in an occupational setting.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether the characteristics of retail food stores where African-American women shopped mediated the association between their income and intake of fruits and vegetables, and found that women with higher per capita incomes were more likely to shop at supermarkets than at other grocers, which in turn was associated with intake.

TL;DR: Effective healthy aging policies need to enhance opportunities across the life span for modification of lifestyle risk factors and efforts to standardize concepts and terminology will facilitate further research activity in this important area.

TL;DR: It is suggested that CRF may be accurately estimated in adults from a non-exercise test model including gender, age, body mass index, resting heart rate, and self-reported physical activity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used multivariate logistic regression analysis to test whether gender-specific patterns of substance use and sexual behavior precede and predict depression or vice versa, and found that abstaining from sexual intercourse and drug use, experimental and high-risk behavior patterns predicted depression.

TL;DR: The origins of leisure studies and the study of recreation behavior and park use and their potential contribution to active living research are examined and a list of recommendations to integrate these and other considerations into transdisciplinary research on active living are made.

TL;DR: The solution-oriented research paradigm as mentioned in this paper encourages research with more immediate relevance to human health and a shortened cycle of discovery from the laboratory to the patient and population, and a "litmus test for evaluating research studies is proposed, to maximize the efficiency of the research enterprise and contributions to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of disease.

TL;DR: The measure of self-management strategies for physical activity yields valid scores among adolescent girls and warrants experimental study as a mediator of the influence of efficacy beliefs on physical activity.

TL;DR: There is insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of early childhood home visitation in preventing violence by visited children, violence by visiting parents (other than child abuse and neglect), or intimate partner violence in visited families.

TL;DR: This analysis provides the first detailed, comprehensive estimates using DALYs of the fatal and nonfatal conditions that exact large health burdens in the United States.

TL;DR: Some or all of the apparent protective effect of moderate alcohol consumption on CVD may be due to residual or unmeasured confounding, and nonrandomized studies about the health effects of moderate drinking should be interpreted with caution, particularly since excessive alcohol consumption is a leading health hazard in the United States.

TL;DR: This paper proposes a distinct definition for health numeracy, as well as a set of clarifying categories in hopes of helping researchers both to advance the field ofhealth numeracy and to focus their topics within the realm of health numerical literacy.

TL;DR: Observed associations between presence or absence of fast food outlets and neighborhood deprivation may provide support for environmental explanations for the higher prevalence of obesity in poor neighborhoods.

TL;DR: Although exercise improved fitness, the reductions in total and abdominal fatness and increase in leanness were more strongly associated with favorable changes in risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, including those that constitute metabolic syndrome.

TL;DR: It is suggested that there is a clear relationship between increasing PA and decreasing depressive symptoms in middle-aged women, independent of pre-existing physical and psychological health.

TL;DR: Cessation aids are under-used across insurance categories, and advice by a healthcare provider to quit smoking and the number of cigarettes smoked per day were significant predictors of treatment use, regardless of insurance status.

TL;DR: Except on Sunday, consistent gender differences were found in activity levels, especially for the late afternoon period, which support strategies to reduce sitting and electronic recreation, which may increase physical activity.

TL;DR: Although high compliance with recommended fish consumption patterns can improve public health, unintended shifts in consumption can lead to public health losses and risk managers should investigate and carefully consider how populations will respond to interventions, how those responses will influence nutrient intake and contaminant exposure, and how these changes will affect aggregate public health.

TL;DR: Coordinated treatment programs for homeless adults with mental illness or substance abuse usually result in better health outcomes than usual care.