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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Place. 2016 Feb 1;38:48–53. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.01.001

Table 4.

Direct and indirect relations of neighborhood activity supportiveness to BMI and waist circumference in Hispanic/Latino subsample (N = 797)a

BMI
Obese vs. overweight and normal weight
B (95% CI) β p value B (SE or 95% CI) OR (95% CI) p value
Intercept 28.11 - - −0.71 0.49 -
Initial models
  Activity supportiveness
indexb
−0.23 (−0.43, −0.02) −0.09 .031 −0.09 (0.05) 0.91 (0.84, 1.00) .053
Mediation models (adjusted
for walking)
  Walking MET-hours/week −0.14 (−0.20, −0.08) −0.16 <.001 −0.06 (0.02) 0.94 (0.92, 0.97) <.001
  Activity supportiveness
index
−0.20 (−0.41, 0) −0.08 .052 −0.08 (0.05) 0.92 (0.84, 1.01) .082
Mediation coefficient −0.03 (−0.07, 0) - .076 −0.01 (−0.03, 0) - .069
Percent attenuation 11% - - 8% - -

Waist circumference (cm)
Waist circumference, ≥ 88 vs < 88 (cm)
B (95% CI) β p value B (SE or 95% CI) OR (95% CI) p value

Intercept 87.46 - - −0.31 0.74 -
Initial models
  Activity supportiveness
indexb
−0.25 (−0.76, 0.25) −0.04 .326 −0.03 (0.04) 0.97 (0.89, 1.05) .450
Mediation models (adjusted
for walking)
  Walking MET-hours/week −0.34 (−0.48, −0.19) −0.16 <.001 −0.05 (0.01) 0.95 (0.92, 0.97) <.001
  Activity supportiveness
index
−0.19 (−0.69, 0.31) −0.03 .446 −0.03 (0.04) 0.98 (0.90, 1.06) .555
Mediation coefficient −0.08 (−0.17, 0.02) - .112 −0.01 (−0.03, 0) - .069
Percent attenuation 23% - - 22% - -
a

All models were adjusted for participant age, race/ethnicity, education, marital status, neighborhood income, and intervention group membership, all of which were mean centered

b

The activity supportiveness index was calculated as the sum of z scores for residential density, street connectivity, land use mix, and number of parks