Barriers to Walking: An Investigation of Adults in Hamilton (Ontario, Canada)
This study investigates perceived barriers to walking using data collected from 179 randomly-selected adults between the ages of 18 and 92 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. A survey (Hamilton Active Living Study) asked questions about socio-demographics, walking, and barriers to walking. A series of bin...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
MDPI
2016
|
| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4772199/ |
| id |
pubmed-4772199 |
|---|---|
| recordtype |
oai_dc |
| spelling |
pubmed-47721992016-03-08 Barriers to Walking: An Investigation of Adults in Hamilton (Ontario, Canada) Clark, Andrew F. Scott, Darren M. Article This study investigates perceived barriers to walking using data collected from 179 randomly-selected adults between the ages of 18 and 92 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. A survey (Hamilton Active Living Study) asked questions about socio-demographics, walking, and barriers to walking. A series of binary logit models are estimated for twenty potential barriers to walking. The results demonstrate that different barriers are associated with different sub-groups of the population. Females, senior citizens, and those with a higher body mass index identify the most barriers to walking, while young adults, parents, driver’s license owners, and bus pass owners identify the fewest barriers. Understanding who is affected by perceived barriers can help policy makers and health promotion agencies target sub-groups of the population in an effort to increase walking. MDPI 2016-01-30 2016-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4772199/ /pubmed/26840328 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13020179 Text en © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons by Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| repository_type |
Open Access Journal |
| institution_category |
Foreign Institution |
| institution |
US National Center for Biotechnology Information |
| building |
NCBI PubMed |
| collection |
Online Access |
| language |
English |
| format |
Online |
| author |
Clark, Andrew F. Scott, Darren M. |
| spellingShingle |
Clark, Andrew F. Scott, Darren M. Barriers to Walking: An Investigation of Adults in Hamilton (Ontario, Canada) |
| author_facet |
Clark, Andrew F. Scott, Darren M. |
| author_sort |
Clark, Andrew F. |
| title |
Barriers to Walking: An Investigation of Adults in Hamilton (Ontario, Canada) |
| title_short |
Barriers to Walking: An Investigation of Adults in Hamilton (Ontario, Canada) |
| title_full |
Barriers to Walking: An Investigation of Adults in Hamilton (Ontario, Canada) |
| title_fullStr |
Barriers to Walking: An Investigation of Adults in Hamilton (Ontario, Canada) |
| title_full_unstemmed |
Barriers to Walking: An Investigation of Adults in Hamilton (Ontario, Canada) |
| title_sort |
barriers to walking: an investigation of adults in hamilton (ontario, canada) |
| description |
This study investigates perceived barriers to walking using data collected from 179 randomly-selected adults between the ages of 18 and 92 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. A survey (Hamilton Active Living Study) asked questions about socio-demographics, walking, and barriers to walking. A series of binary logit models are estimated for twenty potential barriers to walking. The results demonstrate that different barriers are associated with different sub-groups of the population. Females, senior citizens, and those with a higher body mass index identify the most barriers to walking, while young adults, parents, driver’s license owners, and bus pass owners identify the fewest barriers. Understanding who is affected by perceived barriers can help policy makers and health promotion agencies target sub-groups of the population in an effort to increase walking. |
| publisher |
MDPI |
| publishDate |
2016 |
| url |
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4772199/ |
| _version_ |
1613545138089361408 |