• Preventive medicine · Jun 2024

    Social cohesion and associations with sedentary time, physical activity and dietary quality in the Maastricht study.

    • Jeffrey Alexander Chan, Hans Bosma, Jeroen Lakerveld, Miranda T Schram, Marleen van Greevenbroek, and Annemarie Koster.
    • Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands; Department of Social Medicine, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northern California VA Healthcare System, Martinez, CA, USA. Electronic address: J.Chan@maastrichtuniversity.nl.
    • Prev Med. 2024 Jun 1; 183: 107970107970.

    IntroWe aim to investigate the relationship between social cohesion and sedentary behavior (SB), total physical activity (PA), moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA), and dietary quality. Additionally, we assess whether these associations are independent of neighborhood walkability and the food environment.MethodsA total of 7641 participants from The Maastricht Study in the Netherlands between the ages of 40 and 75 years were analyzed. Neighborhood social cohesion was obtained by participant questionnaire completed at baseline and measured by the Dutch Livability meter. Home addresses were linked to geographic information system (GIS) data from the Geoscience and Health Cohort Consortium (GECCO) to create neighborhood exposures of walkability and food environment. A thigh worn accelerometer collected data to measure sedentary time, total daily PA, and MVPA. Dietary quality was measured with a food frequency questionnaire. Multivariate linear regression analyses were adjusted for age, sex, socioeconomic position, neighborhood walkability, and food environment.ResultsThose living in the highest quartile area of perceived social cohesion had statistically significant lower levels of SB (Q4 B: -13.04; 95% CI = -20.23, -5.85), higher total PA (Q4 B: 4.39; 95% CI = 1.69, 7.10), and higher MVPA (Q4 B: 2.57; 95% CI = 0.83, 4.31) and better diet quality (Q4 B: 1.12; 95% CI = 0.24, 2.01) compared to the lowest quartile independent of walkability and food environment. Similar results were found using the Livability meter.ConclusionWe discovered neighborhood social cohesion as an important obesogenic determinant that should be considered in policymaking to encourage higher levels of PA and higher diet quality.Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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