New article by Margaret van Bakergem in Preventive Medicine-
Objective reports versus subjective perceptions of crime and their relationships to accelerometer-measured physical activity in Hispanic caretaker-child dyads.
Highlights
- • Objective and perceived crime were positively and significantly associated.
- • Self-reported safety and caretaker objective physical activity had an inverse correlation.
- • Objective crime near home was not associated with caretaker physical activity.
- • Caretaker self-reported safety was not associated with overall child physical activity.
- • Girl physical activity had a significant inverse relationship with crime.