Table 4.

Neighborhood Participation, Physical Activity, and BMI.

	Normal BMI vs. obese			Normal BMI vs. overweight
Variables	OR	95% CI	p value	OR	95% CI	p value
Demographic
Age	0.38	[0.17, 0.87]	.02	1.27	[0.58, 2.75]	.55
Race
White	1.00	Reference		1.00	Reference
Black	2.82	[1.16, 6.85]	.02	1.45	[0.64, 3.10]	.37
Gender
Male	1.00	Reference		1.00	Reference
Female	1.28	[0.50, 3.25]	.61	0.96	[0.43, 2.21]	.98
Social/economic
Marital status
Singlea	0.34	[0.27, 1.57]	.34	0.55	[0.24, 1.27]	.16
Married	1.00	Reference		1.00	Reference
Education
<High school	3.26	[0.72, 14.84]	.13	1.13	[0.32, 3.99]	.85
High school graduate	2.93	[0.80, 10.73]	.10	0.72	[0.26, 1.95]	.51
College/associate degree	7.04	[1.83, 27.12]	<.01	1.16	[0.39, 3.49]	.78
Bachelor’s and above	1.00	Reference		1.00	Reference
Neighborhood participation
Beautification/garden	0.23	[0.09, 0.58]	<.01	0.43	[0.19, 0.99]	.04
Health behavior
No physical activity	2.70	[0.81, 7.51]	.03	0.31	[0.11, 0.88]	.03
Low physical Activity	2.09	[0.64, 6.85]	.01	0.28	[0.09, 0.89]	.03
Average physical Activity	2.57	[0.80, 8.27]	.11	0.67	[0.23, 1.87]	.44
High physical activity	1.00	Reference		1.00	Reference
N	213

Note. BMI = body mass index; OR = odds ratio; CI = confidence interval.

^aSingle includes widowed, separated, and divorced participants.