Development of a neighborhood obesogenic built environment characteristics index for the Netherlands

Objective: Environmental factors that drive obesity are often studied individually, whereas obesogenic environments are likely to consist of multiple factors from food and physical activity (PA) environments. This study aimed to compose and describe a comprehensive, theory-based, expert-informed index to quantify obesogenicity for all neighborhoods in the Netherlands. Methods: The Obesogenic Built Environment CharacterisTics (OBCT) index consists of 17 components. The index was calculated as an average of componential scores across both food and PA environments and was scaled from 0 to 100. Th... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Lam, Thao Minh
Wagtendonk, Alfred J
den Braver, Nicolette R
Karssenberg, Derek
Vaartjes, Ilonca
Timmermans, Erik J
Beulens, Joline W J
Lakerveld, Jeroen
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Reihe/Periodikum: Lam , T M , Wagtendonk , A J , den Braver , N R , Karssenberg , D , Vaartjes , I , Timmermans , E J , Beulens , J W J & Lakerveld , J 2023 , ' Development of a neighborhood obesogenic built environment characteristics index for the Netherlands ' , Obesity , vol. 31 , no. 1 , pp. 214-224 . https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.23610
Sprache: Englisch
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Objective: Environmental factors that drive obesity are often studied individually, whereas obesogenic environments are likely to consist of multiple factors from food and physical activity (PA) environments. This study aimed to compose and describe a comprehensive, theory-based, expert-informed index to quantify obesogenicity for all neighborhoods in the Netherlands. Methods: The Obesogenic Built Environment CharacterisTics (OBCT) index consists of 17 components. The index was calculated as an average of componential scores across both food and PA environments and was scaled from 0 to 100. The index was visualized and summarized with sensitivity analysis for weighting methods. Results: The OBCT index for all 12,821 neighborhoods was right-skewed, with a median of 44.6 (IQR = 10.1). Obesogenicity was lower in more urbanized neighborhoods except for the extremely urbanized neighborhoods (>2500 addresses/km 2 ), where obesogenicity was highest. The overall OBCT index score was moderately correlated with the food environment (Spearman ρ = 0.55, p <0.05) and with the PA environment (ρ = 0.38, p <0.05). Hierarchical weighting increased index correlations with the PA environment but decreased correlations with the food environment. Conclusions: The novel OBCT index and its comprehensive environmental scores are potentially useful tools to quantify obesogenicity of neighborhoods.