Conducted from 2004-2005, the Active Where? Study was designed to develop new measures of environmental correlates of diet and physical activity specifically for youth. The environments of interest were home, community, and school. Three different sites were involved in this study in order make the findings more generalizable. These sites were in: San Diego, California; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Boston, Massachusetts. A survey was administered to a sample of adolescents, parents of these adolescents, and parents of a sample of children. The Active Where? Surveys assess home, neighborhood, park, and school environments related to physical activity and eating. The study was supported by Active Living Research (ALR), a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Main Citations
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Rosenberg, D., Ding, D., Sallis, J.F., Kerr, J., Norman, G.J., Durant, N., Harris, S.K., and Saelens, B.E. (2009). Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale for Youth (NEWS-Y): Reliability and relationship with physical activity. Preventive Medicine, 49, 213-218.
Rosenberg, D., Sallis, J.F., Kerr, J., Maher, J., Norman, G.J., Durant, N., Harris, S.K., and Saelens, B.E. (2010). Brief scales to assess physical activity and sedentary equipment in the home. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 7, 10. http://www.ijbnpa.org/content/7/1/10
Millstein, R.A., Strobel, J., Kerr, J., Sallis, J.F., Norman, G.J., Durant, N., Harris, S., and Saelens, B.E. (2011). Home, school, and neighborhood environment factors and youth physical activity. Pediatric Exercise Science, 23(4), 487-503. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22109776
Ding, D., Bracy, N.L., Sallis, J.F., Saelens, B.E., Norman, G.J., Harris, S.K., Durant, N., Rosenberg, D., and Kerr, J. (2012). Is fear of strangers related to physical activity among youth? American Journal of Health Promotion, 26(3), 189-195.
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Ding, D., Sallis, J.F., Norman, G.J., Saelens, B.E., Harris, S.K., Kerr, J., Rosenberg, D., Durant, N., and Glanz, K. (2012). Community food environment, home food environment, and fruit and vegetable intake of children and adolescents. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 44, 634-638.
This survey is completed by parent alone or parent and child together.
This survey is completed by parent alone or parent and adolescent together.
This survey is completed by the adolescent individually.
Project overview of setting, sample, recruitment, and procedures for Active Where?
The purpose of this report is to present the test-retest reliability of the individual survey items used in the Active Where? Study. These reliability statistics may be used by other researchers or community health planners who are interested in using survey items from this study in their own research projects. These results supplement reliability analyses on selected scales that have been reported in various published papers.
Individual Item Reliability Statistics - Parent/Child Survey (N = 97)
Joe L, Carlson JA, Sallis JF
Individual Item Reliability Statistics - Parent/Adolescent Survey (N = 120)
Joe L, Carlson JA, Sallis JF
Individual Item Reliability Statistics - Adolescent Survey (N = 120)
Joe L, Carlson JA, Sallis JF
Compilation of Active Where? Presentations and Publications