Relationship of the built environment with physical activity levels in macapá
International Journal of Development Research
Relationship of the built environment with physical activity levels in macapá
Received 14th February, 2022; Received in revised form 27th March, 2022; Accepted 10th April, 2022; Published online 27th May, 2022
Copyright © 2022, Marcela Fabiani Silva Dias et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The objective of this study was to relate the attributes of the built environment to the levels of physical activity in adults in Macapá, Brazil. A cross-sectional quantitative research was adopted. To collect data on the attributes of the built environment, the Neighborhood Walkability Scale instrument was used, and the International Physical Activity Questionnaire instrument was used to collect the participants' physical activity levels. In the statistical analysis, the Statistical Package for Social Science for Windows program was used, with a significance level of 5% and the Mann-Whitney U significance test. Of the eight attributes of the environment investigated, four showed a significant difference when related to physical activity: proximity to stores, access to services, neighborhood aesthetics and crime.
