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January 2007, Vol 97, No. 1 | American Journal of Public Health 101-103
© 2007 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.072348

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Associations Between Family Support, Family Intimacy, and Neighborhood Violence and Physical Activity in Urban Adolescent Girls

JoAnn Kuo, MPH, Carolyn C. Voorhees, PhD, Jennifer A. Haythornthwaite, PhD and Deborah Rohm Young, PhD

JoAnn Kuo and Deborah Rohm Young are with the Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland, College Park. Carolyn C. Voorhees is with the Department of Public and Community Health, University of Maryland, College Park. Jennifer A. Haythornthwaite is with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Md.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to JoAnn Kuo, MPH, Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland, 2351 Health and Human Performance Building, College Park, MD 20742-2611 (e-mail: jkuo1{at}umd.edu).

We examined the association between various dimensions of the family environment, including family intimacy and involvement in activities, family support for physical activity, and neighborhood violence (perceived and objective) and physical activity among urban, predominantly African American, ninth-grade girls in Balti-more, Md. Greater family intimacy (P = .05) and support (P = .01), but not neighborhood violence, was associated with physical activity. Family factors, including family intimacy and support, are potential targets in physical activity interventions for urban high-school girls.






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