TY - JOUR
T1 - Socio-economic determinants of physical activity across the life course
T2 - A "DEterminants of DIet and Physical ACtivity" (DEDIPAC) umbrella literature review
AU - O’Donoghue, Grainne
AU - Kennedy, Aileen
AU - Puggina, Anna
AU - Aleksovska, Katina
AU - Buck, Christoph
AU - Burns, Con
AU - Cardon, Greet
AU - Carlin, Angela
AU - Ciarapica, Donatella
AU - Colotto, Marco
AU - Condello, Giancarlo
AU - Coppinger, Tara
AU - Cortis, Cristina
AU - D’Haese, Sara
AU - De Craemer, Marieke
AU - Blasio, Andrea Di
AU - Hansen, Sylvia
AU - Iacoviello, Licia
AU - Issartel, Johann
AU - Izzicupo, Pascal
AU - Jaeschke, Lina
AU - Kanning, Martina
AU - Ling, Fiona
AU - Luzak, Agnes
AU - Napolitano, Giorgio
AU - Nazare, Julie Anne
AU - Perchoux, Camille
AU - Pesce, Caterina
AU - Pischon, Tobias
AU - Polito, Angela
AU - Sannella, Alessandra
AU - Schulz, Holger
AU - Simon, Chantal
AU - Sohun, Rhoda
AU - Steinbrecher, Astrid
AU - Schlicht, Wolfgang
AU - MacDonncha, Ciaran
AU - Capranica, Laura
AU - Boccia, Stefania
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 O'Donoghue et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2018/1
Y1 - 2018/1
N2 - Background To date, the scientific literature on socioeconomic correlates and determinants of physical activity behaviours has been dispersed throughout a number of systematic reviews, often focusing on one factor (e.g. education or parental income) in one specific age group (e.g. pre-school children or adults). The aim of this umbrella review is to provide a comprehensive and systematic overview of the scientific literature from previously conducted research by summarising and synthesising the importance and strength of the evidence related to socioeconomic correlates and determinants of PA behaviours across the life course. Methods Medline, Embase, ISI Web of Science, Scopus and SPORTDiscus were searched for systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies investigating the association between socioeconomic determinants of PA and PA itself (from January 2004 to September 2017). Data extraction evaluated the importance of determinants, strength of evidence, and methodological quality of the selected papers. The full protocol is available from PROSPERO (PROSPERO2014:CRD42015010616). Results Nineteen reviews were included. Moderate methodological quality emerged. For adults, convincing evidence supports a relationship between PA and socioeconomic status (SES), especially in relation to leisure time (positive relationship) and occupational PA (negative relationship). Conversely, no association between PA and SES or parental SES was found for pre-school, school-aged children and adolescents. Conclusions Available evidence on the socioeconomic determinants of PA behaviour across the life course is probable (shows fairly consistent associations) at best. While some evidence is available for adults, less was available for youth. This is mainly due to a limited quantity of primary studies, weak research designs and lack of accuracy in the PA and SES assessment methods employed. Further PA domain specific studies using longitudinal design and clear measures of SES and PA assessment are required.
AB - Background To date, the scientific literature on socioeconomic correlates and determinants of physical activity behaviours has been dispersed throughout a number of systematic reviews, often focusing on one factor (e.g. education or parental income) in one specific age group (e.g. pre-school children or adults). The aim of this umbrella review is to provide a comprehensive and systematic overview of the scientific literature from previously conducted research by summarising and synthesising the importance and strength of the evidence related to socioeconomic correlates and determinants of PA behaviours across the life course. Methods Medline, Embase, ISI Web of Science, Scopus and SPORTDiscus were searched for systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies investigating the association between socioeconomic determinants of PA and PA itself (from January 2004 to September 2017). Data extraction evaluated the importance of determinants, strength of evidence, and methodological quality of the selected papers. The full protocol is available from PROSPERO (PROSPERO2014:CRD42015010616). Results Nineteen reviews were included. Moderate methodological quality emerged. For adults, convincing evidence supports a relationship between PA and socioeconomic status (SES), especially in relation to leisure time (positive relationship) and occupational PA (negative relationship). Conversely, no association between PA and SES or parental SES was found for pre-school, school-aged children and adolescents. Conclusions Available evidence on the socioeconomic determinants of PA behaviour across the life course is probable (shows fairly consistent associations) at best. While some evidence is available for adults, less was available for youth. This is mainly due to a limited quantity of primary studies, weak research designs and lack of accuracy in the PA and SES assessment methods employed. Further PA domain specific studies using longitudinal design and clear measures of SES and PA assessment are required.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0190737
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0190737
M3 - Review article
C2 - 29351286
AN - SCOPUS:85040842010
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 13
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
IS - 1
M1 - e0190737
ER -