Centre for Public Policy and Health, School of Medicine and Health, Wolfson Research Institute, Durham University, Queen's Campus, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees TS17 6BH, UK.
J Public Health (Oxf). 2013 Mar;35(1):57-66. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fds059. Epub 2012 Jul 17.
Evidence suggests that environments impact behaviour, including physical activity (PA). The aim was to understand where young people are physically active and the environmental contexts to their activity. To explore how they perceived both barriers to, and enablers for, PA in their environment.
Focus groups were conducted with five groups aged 16-20 years (n = 42; 29 male, 13 female) in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England between November 2006 and June 2007. Analysis was an iterative process of looking for broad themes and subthemes across the transcripts.
Themes explored included their main environment; perceptions of their environment; PA and where they are active; activity in the past and safety concerns. Emergent themes included working and PA, transport and activity, limitations of the environment to PA and gender differences. Our results suggest PA was distributed across a range of environments, rather than focused in one locale, or setting.
Obesity in young people is a major concern and prevention of obesity a high priority. Little is known about the PA behaviours of this age group and the context of these behaviours during this period of transition. Understanding lifestyle behaviours such as PA and context of activity is an important first step in development interventions to encourage greater activity in this transitory age group.
有证据表明，环境会影响行为，包括身体活动（PA）。本研究旨在了解年轻人在哪里进行身体活动，以及他们活动的环境背景。探讨他们如何感知环境中对 PA 的障碍和促进因素。
2006 年 11 月至 2007 年 6 月，在英格兰纽卡斯尔进行了 5 组 16-20 岁（n=42；29 名男性，13 名女性）的焦点小组。分析是一个跨转录本寻找广泛主题和子主题的迭代过程。
探讨的主题包括他们的主要环境；对环境的看法；PA 和他们活跃的地方；过去的活动和安全问题。出现的主题包括工作和 PA、交通和活动、环境对 PA 的限制以及性别差异。我们的研究结果表明，PA 分布在一系列环境中，而不是集中在一个地方或环境中。
年轻人肥胖是一个主要问题，预防肥胖是当务之急。对于这个年龄段的 PA 行为以及在此过渡期间这些行为的背景知之甚少。了解 PA 等生活方式行为和活动的背景是鼓励这个过渡年龄段更多活动的发展干预的重要第一步。
