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September 8, 2026Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

Associations Between Characteristics of the Home and Physical Activity Behavior in Youth

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RPRussell R. PateMDM DowdaAMAlexander C. McLain

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Overview

Cross-sectional study finds higher physical activity in youth linked to structured programs and parental transport, indicating key targets for family-based activity interventions.

Key Points

  • Identify home, parent, and family factors associated with physical activity in a diverse sample of U.S. children.
  • Secondary cross-sectional analysis of structured interviews conducted with child/parent dyads (n=5,138, mean age 9.28 [SD 2.65] years) sampled from 130 U.S. communities between 2013 and 2015.
  • Assessed parent- and child-reported participation in moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) alongside home, parent, neighborhood, and child characteristics.
  • Employed classification and regression trees (CART) to identify key home-based correlates cross-sectionally associated with youth MVPA.
  • CART analysis demonstrated that youth were more physically active if they participated frequently in structured physical activity programs.
  • Higher physical activity was positively associated with children rating themselves and their peers as physically active, as well as having parents who regularly provided transportation to activities.

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Pate et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9fd7c658e84d0ff5b46c8chttps://doi.org/10.1249/mss.0000000000004140
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