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- Title
The Interaction Between an Individual's Acculturation and Community Factors on Physical Inactivity and Obesity: A Multilevel Analysis.
- Authors
Lu Shi; Donglan Zhang; van Meijgaard, Jeroen; MacLeod, Kara E.; Fielding, Jonathan E.
- Abstract
Objectives. We examined whether the interactions between primarily speaking English at home and community-level measures (median household income and immigrant composition) are associated with physical inactivity and obesity. Methods. We pooled the 2005 and 2007 Los Angeles County Health Survey data to construct a multilevel data set, with community-level median household income and immigrant density as predictors at the community level. After controlling for individual-level demographic variables, we included the respondent's perceived community safety as a covariate to test the hypothesis that perceived public safety mediates the association between acculturation and health outcomes. Results. The interaction between community median household income and primarily speaking English at home was associated with lower likelihoods of physical inactivity (odds ratio [OR] = 0.644; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.502, 0.825) and obesity (OR = 0.674; 95% CI = 0.514, 0.882). These odds remained significant after we controlled for perceived community safety. Conclusions. Resources in higher-income areas may be beneficial only to residents fully integrated into the community. Future research could focus on understanding how linguistic isolation affects community-level social learning and access to resources and whether this differs by family-level acculturation.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CALIFORNIA; SEDENTARY behavior -- Risk factors; OBESITY risk factors; SOCIAL isolation; PUBLIC safety -- Social aspects; PSYCHOLOGY; ACCULTURATION; COMMUNITY health services; CONFIDENCE intervals; HEALTH risk assessment; MULTIVARIATE analysis; OBESITY; RESEARCH funding; LOGISTIC regression analysis; SEDENTARY lifestyles; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ODDS ratio
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2015, Vol 105, Issue 7, p1460
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2014.302541