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How active are people in metropolitan parks? An observational study of park visitation in Australia
Veitch, Jenny Carver, Alison Abbott, Gavin Giles-Corti, Billie Timperio, Anna Salmon, Jo
Veitch, Jenny
Carver, Alison
Abbott, Gavin
Giles-Corti, Billie
Timperio, Anna
Salmon, Jo
Abstract
Background: Parks are generally an under-utilized resource in the community with great potential to enhance levels of physical activity. If parks are to attract more visitors across a broad cross-section of the population and facilitate increased physical activity, research is needed to better understand park visitor characteristics and how visitors spend their time in parks. The Recording and EValuating Activity in a Modified Park (REVAMP) study is a natural experiment monitoring a park upgrade in a low socioeconomic status (SES) neighborhood. This study described the observed baseline characteristics of park visitors (age, sex) and characteristics of visitation (weekday or weekend day, period of the day) and explored how these characteristics were associated with observed park-based physical activity in two metropolitan parks located Melbourne, Australia.
Keywords
Observation, Park, Physical activity, Public open space, Park visitor
Date
2015
Type
Journal article
Journal
BMC Public Health
Book
Volume
15
Issue
610
Page Range
1-8
Article Number
ACU Department
Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
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Open Access Status
Open access
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Open
Notes
© 2015 Veitch et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.