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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 28.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Health Promot. 2012 May-Jun;26(5):281–288. doi: 10.4278/ajhp.100722-QUAN-249

Table 2.

Prevalence of LTPA Differences and Health Parameter Estimates of Mexican-origin adults (N=668) in San Diego, CA

Parameters Male Female Total
Sample size 191 477 668
% Meets recommended levels of LTPA 39.3* 28.7* 31.7
Mean self-efficacy for PA (range= 1–5, SD) 4.1 (0.9) 3.9 (1.0) 4.0 (1.0)
Mean social support from friends (range = 1–5, SD) 2.1 (1.2) 2.1 (1.1) 2.1 (1.1)
Mean neighborhood safety (range =1–4, SD)
 Barriers 3.1 (0.7) 3.0 (0.7) 3.1 (0.7)
 Facilitators 2.9 (0.8) 2.8 (0.8) 2.8 (0.8)
Mean neighborhood cohesion (range = 1–3, SD) 2.5 (0.5) 2.4 (0.5) 2.4 (0.5)
Mean community resource awareness (range = 1–4) 2.9 (0.8) 2.8 (0.8) 2.9 (0.8)
Mean community resource satisfaction (range = 1–4, SD) 2.9 (0.9) 2.8 (1.0) 2.8 (1.0)
Mean monthly community resource use for PA (SD) 7.8 (8.1) 7.5 (7.9) 7.6 ± 7.9

Higher scores indicated greater self-efficacy for PA, social support for PA, neighborhood safety, neighborhood cohesion, community resource awareness, community resource satisfaction and community resource use, respectively.

*

Chi-square and t-test analyses significant at p≤ .05.