Background: Outdoor exercise is an enjoyable way for individuals to improve fitness, but it is dependent on weather conditions. This study examines the association between weather conditions and outdoor exercise after...Background: Outdoor exercise is an enjoyable way for individuals to improve fitness, but it is dependent on weather conditions. This study examines the association between weather conditions and outdoor exercise after adjustment for age, sex, race, and socioeconomic status.Methods: We used data representative of American adults from the University of Michigan/Thomson Reuters June 2013 surveys of consumers(core and supplement) to investigate self-reported exercise behavior in summer and winter. Multivariate multinomial logistic regression models estimated the odds of delayed or indoor exercise compared with outdoor exercise.Results: Of the 502 respondents, 16.3% did not regularly exercise outdoors(i.e., at least once a week), and many would delay exercise both in summer(51.8%) and winter(43.9%). Individuals listing rain as the predominant adverse weather condition had 3.33 times higher odds of exercising indoors(95% confidence interval(CI): 1.34-8.28) and 3.49 times higher odds of delaying exercise(95%CI: 1.69-7.21) compared with those mentioning heat as the predominant adverse condition. Individuals for whom ice or snow was an adverse winter weather condition were more likely to delay exercise(odds ratio(OR) = 3.34; 95%CI: 1.19-9.36), compared with those concerned with cold.Conclusion: This study found that race, age, and education exacerbate the negative effects of adverse weather conditions on the decision to exercise outdoors. Accordingly, any recommendation for an individual to exercise outdoors should be combined with an evaluation of the individual's outdoor environment along with strategies for the individual to continue exercising, indoors or outdoors, when adverse weather is present.展开更多
In order to study the potential benefits of shared bicycles to office workers in park leisure,urban exploration,outdoor exercise and accompanying travel with relatives and friends,data of 868 users of shared bicycles ...In order to study the potential benefits of shared bicycles to office workers in park leisure,urban exploration,outdoor exercise and accompanying travel with relatives and friends,data of 868 users of shared bicycles were collected by face-to-face questionnaire survey in 25 scattered locations in Shenzhen and the independent sample t-test,correlation coefficient analysis of Pearson and chi-square independence test were carried out by SPSS software.The results showed that shared bicycles increased the frequency of going to the park for nearly 45% of the respondents,prolonged the park stay time for nearly 1/2 of the respondents,and promoted the park leisure.Nearly 30% of the respondents have traveled to strange urban areas by shared bicycles,which shows that shared bicycles can promote office workers to explore urban space.Nearly 1/2 of the respondents rode shared bicycles for sports,and nearly 1/2 of the respondents increased the frequency of traveling with their relatives and friends due to shared bicycles.Moreover,the promoting benefits of urban leisure were often more significant in the relatively vulnerable groups (women,the elderly,the low educated,the renters and the people without private cars),so shared bicycles helps to improve the quality of leisure life of the vulnerable groups,thus promoting social equity.展开更多
基金sponsored by the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
文摘Background: Outdoor exercise is an enjoyable way for individuals to improve fitness, but it is dependent on weather conditions. This study examines the association between weather conditions and outdoor exercise after adjustment for age, sex, race, and socioeconomic status.Methods: We used data representative of American adults from the University of Michigan/Thomson Reuters June 2013 surveys of consumers(core and supplement) to investigate self-reported exercise behavior in summer and winter. Multivariate multinomial logistic regression models estimated the odds of delayed or indoor exercise compared with outdoor exercise.Results: Of the 502 respondents, 16.3% did not regularly exercise outdoors(i.e., at least once a week), and many would delay exercise both in summer(51.8%) and winter(43.9%). Individuals listing rain as the predominant adverse weather condition had 3.33 times higher odds of exercising indoors(95% confidence interval(CI): 1.34-8.28) and 3.49 times higher odds of delaying exercise(95%CI: 1.69-7.21) compared with those mentioning heat as the predominant adverse condition. Individuals for whom ice or snow was an adverse winter weather condition were more likely to delay exercise(odds ratio(OR) = 3.34; 95%CI: 1.19-9.36), compared with those concerned with cold.Conclusion: This study found that race, age, and education exacerbate the negative effects of adverse weather conditions on the decision to exercise outdoors. Accordingly, any recommendation for an individual to exercise outdoors should be combined with an evaluation of the individual's outdoor environment along with strategies for the individual to continue exercising, indoors or outdoors, when adverse weather is present.
文摘In order to study the potential benefits of shared bicycles to office workers in park leisure,urban exploration,outdoor exercise and accompanying travel with relatives and friends,data of 868 users of shared bicycles were collected by face-to-face questionnaire survey in 25 scattered locations in Shenzhen and the independent sample t-test,correlation coefficient analysis of Pearson and chi-square independence test were carried out by SPSS software.The results showed that shared bicycles increased the frequency of going to the park for nearly 45% of the respondents,prolonged the park stay time for nearly 1/2 of the respondents,and promoted the park leisure.Nearly 30% of the respondents have traveled to strange urban areas by shared bicycles,which shows that shared bicycles can promote office workers to explore urban space.Nearly 1/2 of the respondents rode shared bicycles for sports,and nearly 1/2 of the respondents increased the frequency of traveling with their relatives and friends due to shared bicycles.Moreover,the promoting benefits of urban leisure were often more significant in the relatively vulnerable groups (women,the elderly,the low educated,the renters and the people without private cars),so shared bicycles helps to improve the quality of leisure life of the vulnerable groups,thus promoting social equity.
