Obesity and Other Correlates of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors among US High School Students

Table 5

Interactions between neighborhood safety and attitude toward physical activity (PA) and associations between PA attitude and participation in PA and sedentary behaviors, by neighborhood safety among US high school students.

	DPA	VPA	MSA	TV	C/VG
Interactions: neighborhood safety × attitude toward PA
Wald F, 1 df	22.8	14.4	12.7	15.8	2.3
(𝑃 value)	(0.0000)	(0.0004)	(0.0007)	(0.0002)	(0.1323)
	DPA	VPA	MSA	TV	C/VG
	AOR	AOR	AOR	AOR	AOR
Associations: attitude toward PA, by neighborhood safety
Total population	1.05**	1.08***	1.08***	0.96***	0.95***
Neighborhood safe for PA	1.15***	1.11***	1.11***	0.94***	0.94***
Neighborhood not safe for PA	0.97	1.04**	1.04**	1.00	0.97

DPA: daily physical activity (≥60 min/day, 7 days/wk); VPA: vigorous physical activity (≥20 min/day, ≥3 days/wk); MSA: muscle strengthening activities (≥3 days/wk); TV: television (≥3 hrs/day); C/VG: computer or video games (≥3 hrs/day); AOR: adjusted odds ratio, adjusted for sex, race/ethnicity, grade, obesity, daily PE classes, sports team participation, sports equipment at home, playgrounds, parks, or gyms close to home, adult support for PA.
* 𝑃 value < 0.05; **𝑃 value < 0.01; ***𝑃 value < 0.001.