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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Behav. 2012 Apr 10;45(4):526–547. doi: 10.1177/0013916512436421

Table 3.

Descriptive characteristics of participants, overall (n=232) and by method of recruitment*

Mean Median Interquartile Range
Distance from the home to the study park
Euclidean distance (miles)
 Overall 2.3 0.8 0.2, 3.0
 Household interview 0.6 0.3 0.1, 0.5
 Park user 2.8 1.2 0.3, 3.8
Network distance (miles)
 Overall 2.8 0.9 0.3, 3.7
 Household interview 0.7 0.4 0.2, 0.8
 Park user 3.3 1.6 0.4, 4.9
Average # park visits/week to the study park by GPS
 Overall 1.8 1.0 0, 2.7
 Household interview 1.0 0.3 0, 1.3
 Park user 2.0 1.2 0.3, 3.0
Average duration (# minutes/day) in the study park by GPS
 Overall 41.7 30.8 0, 61.9
 Household interview 20.9 7.0 0, 30.8
 Park user 46.5 34.7 12.0, 66.0
*

Participants were recruited in the parks (park user, n=184) or from a nearby household (n=46). Two participants were missing participant type of recruitment.