Benzies K M, Yates M T, Patel A B, Afzal A R, Kurilova J, McNeil D A
Faculty of Nursing University of Calgary Calgary Alberta Canada.
Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine University of Calgary Calgary Alberta Canada.
Obes Sci Pract. 2018 Dec 26;5(2):159-167. doi: 10.1002/osp4.322. eCollection 2019 Apr.
Evidence of the association between childhood obesity and neighbourhood crime is inconclusive. Most previous studies have included children of all ages, and few have examined different types of crime. The objective of this study was to investigate the association between obesity and eight different types of crime (i.e. commercial robbery, street robbery, assault, other violence, commercial break and enter, residential break and enter, theft of vehicle and theft from vehicle) among 4- to 7-year-old children in a large western Canadian city.
Cross-sectional, epidemiological study ( = 10,069) using spatial analysis and hierarchical generalized linear modelling. The outcome variable was normal weight or obesity. The exposure variable was the distance between the child's residential postal code and the closest occurrence of each type of crime.
Controlling for distance to the closest park, frequency of each type of crime in the child's neighbourhood and neighbourhood factors (proportion of visible minorities, education and median family income), there was no association between any of the crime types and childhood obesity.
Crime did not contribute to obesity in this sample of 4- to 7-year-old children. Replication of this study in other jurisdictions would increase confidence in these results.
儿童肥胖与社区犯罪之间关联的证据尚无定论。此前大多数研究涵盖了所有年龄段的儿童，很少有研究考察不同类型的犯罪。本研究的目的是调查加拿大西部一个大城市中4至7岁儿童的肥胖与八种不同类型犯罪（即商业抢劫、街头抢劫、袭击、其他暴力行为、商业入室盗窃、住宅入室盗窃、车辆盗窃和车内盗窃）之间的关联。
采用空间分析和分层广义线性模型进行横断面流行病学研究（n = 10,069）。结果变量为正常体重或肥胖。暴露变量为儿童居住邮政编码与每种犯罪类型最近发生地点之间的距离。
在控制了到最近公园的距离、儿童社区中每种犯罪类型的发生频率以及社区因素（可见少数族裔比例、教育程度和家庭收入中位数）后，任何犯罪类型与儿童肥胖之间均无关联。
在这个4至7岁儿童样本中，犯罪与肥胖无关。在其他司法管辖区重复进行本研究将增加对这些结果的信心。
