TUASPA · How does Time Use and availability affect the associations between Activity Space, the environment and Physical Activity among European Adults?
„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“
- Период
- 2019-10-01 → 2021-12-23
- Финансиране от ЕС
- 172 932 €
- Участници
- 1
- Схема
- MSCA-IF-EF-ST
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Накратко на български
Връзката между физическата активност и средата се анализира чрез проследяване на свободното време и достъпа до места като паркове или фитнеси. Това помага да се разбере дали липсата на движение се дължи на недостиг на време или на липса на подходящи условия.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
Резултати накратко
How does Time Use and availability affect the associations between Activity Space, the environment and Physical Activity among European Adults?
The World Health Organization recognizes the need to promote physical activity (PA) throughout everyday life, and recently the Council Recommendation on health-enhancing physical activity (HEPA) invited the European Commission to provide targeted support to get Europeans to reach international PA guidelines. Currently, almost 40% of European adults fail to reach physical activity recommendations making physical inactivity the responsible for about 1 million premature deaths per year in the WHO European Region alone. European citizens need to increase their physical activity, but at the same time they are increasingly pressed for time. The amount of time and resources that adults can invest in PA is limited both by temporal constraints and by their access to locations where they can be physically active. Some adults may not find enough free time to allocate into additional PA, while others may not have access to a park or a gym in which to be active. Both lack of time and lack of access can undermine policy efforts towards the promotion of PA. Individual decisions regarding physical activity are deeply rooted in personal time-space constraints, and the built environment accessible to each individual. Because of that we need to understand the balance between physical activity, time availability and use of active modes of transport. Policies and programs aimed at encouraging PA should target a different set of factors, depending on whether lack of PA is a product of a lack of time availability or lack of access. With that research need in mind, this project aims to incorporating the time availability factor to the study of the associations between the environment and physical activity. It does so by using accelerometer measures of physical activity, GPS-based tracking and Ecological Momentary Assessment reports to evaluate the possibilities and constraints for employed adults to increase their physical activity given their time-availability and the shape and contents of their daily activity space.
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
European adults are in dire need of increasing their physical activity (PA) levels. Leading an active lifestyle helps to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and improve mental health and cognitive function. The WHO estimates that physical inactivity is responsible for more than one million premature deaths/year in the European region alone, as 40% of European adults fail to reach PA recommendations.Living in obesogenic environments is one culprit for the lack of PA and one that has been extensively studied by environmental epidemiologists. A second cause of physical inactivity, is lack of time, but despite being frequently cited in studies and surveys, time use and time pressure have been seldom addressed in relation with the built environment. PA campaigns can be easily spoiled if people have no time available to invest in exercising. And in our contemporary societies, time availability is also deeply rooted on the built environment and the characteristics of our activity spaces. Factors such as how long our commute is, or whether one can connect home-work-school with public transit are going to affect both how much time we have left, and how much PA do we gain from active transport. This project aims at addressing this glaring gap in the literature, by incorporating time availability and time perceptions to the study of the associations between PA and the built environment. It does so by recruiting 150 employed adults (50% women; 33% with children) in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona and tracking their PA patterns during a week, using a GPS and accelerometer devices. Time availability is assessed using daily EMA surveys aimed at describing their subjective use of time in relation with their physical activity. By triangulating GPS, accelerometer, GIS and EMA measures this project will build informed activity spaces that will allow to examine the associations between the environment and PA through the new lens of time availability.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
Участници
- UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA · Cerdanyola Del VallesКоординаторИспания
Връзки
Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз