Mary Maley1, Barbour S Warren, Carol M Devine. 1. Sprecher Institute for Comparative Cancer Research, Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. mm153@cornell.edu
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To understand how members of a rural community perceive the effect of the built, natural, and social environments on their food choice and physical activity behaviors. METHODS: A constructivist community environmental assessment was conducted including 17 individual qualitative interviews, 2 focus groups, and photo elicitation (n = 27) in a rural northeastern community where over 60% of the adult population is overweight or obese. RESULTS: Participants described social, natural, and physical environmental factors that influenced their food choice and physical activity behaviors. Overweight and obesity were variably presented as an individual and/or a collective problem. Participants described conflicting goals for food choice and physical activity in the community, and an interrelationship between the social and physical environments. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: A community environmental assessment provides a view of the physical and social environments from the perspective of community residents that can serve as a foundation for locally tailored, community-based approaches to obesity prevention. Copyright 2010 Society for Nutrition Education. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
OBJECTIVE: To understand how members of a rural community perceive the effect of the built, natural, and social environments on their food choice and physical activity behaviors. METHODS: A constructivist community environmental assessment was conducted including 17 individual qualitative interviews, 2 focus groups, and photo elicitation (n = 27) in a rural northeastern community where over 60% of the adult population is overweight or obese. RESULTS:Participants described social, natural, and physical environmental factors that influenced their food choice and physical activity behaviors. Overweight and obesity were variably presented as an individual and/or a collective problem. Participants described conflicting goals for food choice and physical activity in the community, and an interrelationship between the social and physical environments. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: A community environmental assessment provides a view of the physical and social environments from the perspective of community residents that can serve as a foundation for locally tailored, community-based approaches to obesity prevention. Copyright 2010 Society for Nutrition Education. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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