Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC H3C 3P8, Canada.
Research Center, Montreal University Institute of Mental Health, Montréal, QC H1N 3M5, Canada.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Nov 5;18(21):11647. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182111647.
Older public housing tenants experience various factors associated with physical inactivity and are locally dependent on their environment to support their physical activity. A better understanding of the person-environment fit for physical activity could highlight avenues to improve access to physical activity for this subgroup of the population. The aim of this study was to evaluate older public housing tenants' capabilities for physical activity in their residential environment using a socioecological approach. We conducted individual semi-structured walk-along interviews with 26 tenants (female = 18, male = 8, mean age = 71.96 years old). Living in housing developments exclusively for adults aged 60 years or over in three neighborhoods in the city of Montreal, Canada. A hybrid thematic analysis produced five capabilities for physical activity: Political, financial, social, physical, and psychological. Themes spanned across ecological levels including individual, public housing, community, and government. Tenant committees appear important to physical activity promotion. Participants called for psychosocial interventions to boost their capability for physical activity as well as greater implication from the housing authority and from government. Results further support a call for intersectoral action to improve access to physical activity for less affluent subgroups of the population such as older public housing tenants.
老年公屋租户受到各种与身体不活动相关的因素影响，并且在当地依赖其环境来支持他们的身体活动。更好地了解身体活动的人与环境的适配性，可以突出改善这一人群获得身体活动的途径。本研究旨在使用社会生态学方法评估老年公屋租户在其居住环境中的身体活动能力。我们对 26 名租户（女性=18 人，男性=8 人，平均年龄=71.96 岁）进行了个体半结构化的随行访谈。这些租户居住在加拿大蒙特利尔市三个社区专为 60 岁及以上成年人设计的住房开发项目中。采用混合主题分析法得出了五项身体活动能力：政治、财务、社会、身体和心理。主题跨越了个人、公屋、社区和政府等生态层面。租户委员会似乎对公屋租户的身体活动推广很重要。参与者呼吁进行社会心理干预，以提高他们的身体活动能力，并希望住房管理局和政府更多地参与。研究结果进一步支持采取跨部门行动，为经济条件较差的人群（如老年公屋租户）改善获得身体活动的机会。
