Built and social environments and overweight among brazilian adults from medium-sized city: cume project

• Autor(a) principal: Ana Luiza Gomes Domingos
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Helen Hermana Miranda Hermsdorff, Larissa Loures Mendes, Fernando Luiz Pereira de Oliveira, Anderson Castro Soares de Oliveira, Adriano Marçal Pimenta, Josefina Bressan
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/66772
• topic: Ambiente Construído; Sistemas de Informação Geográfica; Sobrepeso; Meio Social; Características da Vizinhança

A cross-sectional study enrolled participants from the CUME project (n = 289) who lived in Viçosa, Brazil. The neighborhood unit adopted was the buffer (200 meters), considering the participant’s residence as central point. We measure the number of public and private facilities inside the buffer as well as violent criminal occurrences. Food establishments were categorized into establishments with predominant sale of natural or minimally processed foods, mixed establishments, and establishments with predominant sale of ultra-processed foods. Those who attended the faceto-face interview filled two scales of perception of the environment. Overall, 33.6% of participants reported overweight. We observed a higher concentration of individuals close to the central region of the city. Access to different establishments, food environments, and criminal occurrences differed between normal-weight and overweight individuals. The groups deferred in the perception of the location of squares, open public spaces, clubs, and soccer fields. The results indicate the association between environmental characteristics and overweight in Brazilian adults.