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Research has shown that access to activity-supportive neighbourhood destinations is associated with physical activity levels and physical functioning in older adults. However, the relative importance of different destinations and the mechanisms underlying these relationships remain unclear. We investigated (i) the relationships between the availabi...
Aim
Middle‐age and older adults' physical activity participation changes may influence their depressive conditions. This study explores the associations between changes in physical activity levels over time and the likelihood of depressive symptoms based on a population‐based survey.
Methods
This study included adults aged ≥50 years from the Taiwa...
Background: Recently, the phase angle (PhA) emerged as an essential indicator of cellular health. Most studies examined its association with physiological conditions, such as sarcopenia, frailty, and physical function in older populations. Simultaneously, growing attention is being paid to the clinical relevance of segmental PhA for future applicat...
Background
Proximity to parks has been suggested as a factor influencing physical activity in older adults. However, it remains unclear the optimal distance between residences and parks for promoting physical activity and reducing sedentary time and whether these associations vary by the time of day. We examined whether the proximity to neighbourho...
Aims:
Decreases in suicide rates during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic were found in several countries, including Taiwan and South Korea. We investigated the pattern of the reduction in suicide by sex, age, method, and outbreak period in the two countries.
Methods:
Suicide data for Taiwan (2015-2021) and South Korea (2017-2021)...
Abstract
Objective: Research has shown that reducing sedentary behavior (SB) and increasing physical activity (PA) can lower depression risk in older adults. However, few studies have investigated the effect of reallocating sedentary time to PA on the incidence of depression in older populations. We examined the longitudinal associations of realloc...
Phase angle (PhA) is an indicator of cellular health and is positively associated with overall physical activity (PA). However, varied associations between different intensities of PA and PhA by body segment in older populations remain unexplored. We investigated the associations between overall and different intensities of PA and upper-, lower-, a...
Background: Travel distance to hospital emergency departments (EDs) may be a more influential factor in the spatial variation in hospital-presenting self-harm than for suicide deaths. Aims: We investigated the associations of travel distance to the nearest ED with self-harm hospital presentations and suicides in a large city in Taiwan. Method: Data...
Background: Studies have suggested that sitting time at work may lead to underperformance but they may underestimate the benefits to desk workers’ performance of reducing occupational sitting time without considering the relative effects of the specific activities replaced.
Aims: To estimate differences in work performance (presenteeism, absenteei...
Residents of lower socioeconomic status (SES) areas are at a higher risk of overweight/obesity than those from higher SES areas. Built environment attributes may mitigate such inequalities. This systematic review synthesised findings of studies examining built environment attributes as potential moderators of the associations between area-level SES...
Background:
Few studies have examined the non-linear relationships of objectively-measured sedentary behavior and physical activity with insomnia symptoms in older adults. We investigated such relationships of sedentary and physically-active behaviors with total sleep time and nocturnal wakefulness.
Methods:
We recruited adults aged 60 years and...
Objective
We investigated recent trends in youth suicide and their associations with societal and psychological factors in Taiwan.
Methods
Suicide data (1971-2019) for 10-24-year-olds were extracted from Taiwan’s national cause-of-death data files. We investigated changes in trends in youth suicide rates, societal factors (GDP per capita, GINI inde...
Purpose:
We examined the potential mediating roles of domain-specific physical activities and sedentary behaviours in the relationship between area-level socioeconomic status (SES) and cardiometabolic risk.
Methods:
Data were from the 2011/2012 Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle study (n=3,431). The outcome was a clustered cardiometaboli...
Abstract Background The association of breaks in sedentary time with outcomes of physical function can vary according to the time of day. We examined the association of the diurnal pattern of breaks in sedentary time with physical function outcomes in older adults. Methods A cross-sectional analysis was conducted among 115 older adults (≥60 years)....
Introduction: We assessed the effect of the pesticide regulations implemented in 2011 on suicide trend in Kerala state of India.
Materials and methods: Data were collected from case records of suicide autopsies done in a single tertiary care hospital in Thrissur district of Kerala in 2001–2020. Linear trends in overall suicide rates were identified...
In the context of rapid urbanization, public open spaces in dense urban areas are critical built environment elements to support active lifestyles. Several reviews have explored the associations of public open space attributes with physically active and sedentary behavior. However, few reviews have included studies from Asia, and no studies have fo...
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Although pesticide poisonings occur worldwide, most high-income countries have not been severely affected. Japan is a key exception, with pesticide suicides becoming a major public health concern in the 1980s. We here report the epidemiology of lethal pesticide poisoning in Japan in relation to its pesticide regulation and agricultural...
This study systematically reviewed the relevant studies and summarized the associations of objective measures of residential neighborhood built- environment attributes with sedentary time among adults. Published studies were obtained from PubMed and Scopus, restricting to those published in English language peer-reviewed journals to Oct. 2021. Ther...
The workplace spatial environment has been identified as one of the correlates of workers’ active and sedentary behaviours. This study examined the associations of perceived workplace layout design with workers’ active and sedentary behaviour in office workers in Japan. Participants in this study (n=2,265) were recruited from a nationwide online su...
Background
Removing highly hazardous pesticides from agricultural practice in low- and middle-income countries is crucial to ensuring community and environmental health and occupational safety of farmers. However, the approach has been challenged as threatening food production, despite evidence from Asian countries that curbing agricultural use of...
Workplace settings – both internal and external – can influence the extent to which workers are physically active or sedentary. Although research has identified some indoor environmental attributes associated with sitting at work, few studies have examined associations of workplace neighbourhood built-environment attributes with workplace sitting t...
Study Objectives: Despite considering it as a common geriatric condition, sarcopenia is linked to various behavioral factors that may be changeable. As sleep is one of the important routines in physiological homeostasis, further investigating the underlying relationships of sleep behavior with sarcopenia is urgently needed. We examined the associat...
Purpose
Sleep, sedentary behavior, and physical activity are the components of the 24-hour model, while the timing of sleep may play a critical role to impact waking behaviors. Therefore, the present study aimed to examine the relationship of sleep timing with sedentary behavior, light-intensity, moderate-to-vigorous-intensity physical activity, an...
Introduction
Pesticide ingestion is a leading method for suicide worldwide. Paraquat is a highly lethal herbicide when ingested. We assessed the impact of the first-stage ban on the import and production of paraquat (from February 2018) on suicides by pesticide poisoning in Taiwan.
Methods
Suicide data by method (pesticide vs. non-pesticide), pest...
Background
Evidence regarding the association between daily steps recommendation and older adults’ lower limb strength is lacking; thus, this study investigated whether taking at least 7,000 steps/day is cross-sectionally and prospectively related to lower-extremity performance in older Taiwanese adults.
Methods
There were 89 community-dwelling ad...
Background: Few studies have investigated whether means accessibility is related to the spatial distribution of suicide. Aims: To examine the hypothesis that indicators of the accessibility to specific suicide methods were associated with method-specific suicide rates in Taipei City, Taiwan. Method: Smoothed standardized mortality ratios for method...
Background: Geriatric depression is a common but preventable psychiatric disorder; however, its association with specific sleep patterns remains unclear. Therefore, we examined the association of self-reported sleep duration and sleep timing with depressive symptoms in the older population.
Methods: A total of 1,068 older Taiwanese adults (52.7% w...
Background: The positive association between the total duration of physical activity and performances of physical function may vary at different times of the day as circadian rhythm regulates individuals in response to external stimulations. We aimed to examine the association of timing-specific and overall moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (M...
Background
Suicides by carbon monoxide poisoning from burning charcoal increased markedly and contributed to a rise in overall suicides in Taiwan in the early 2000s. A previous study indicated short-term effectiveness on reducing suicides of a charcoal restriction programme, which involved voluntary actions from large chain retail stores to move ch...
Background: Many desk-based workers can spend more than half of their working
hours sitting, with low levels of physical activity. Workplace neighbourhood built
environments may influence workers’ physical activities and sedentary behaviours on
workdays. We reviewed and synthesised evidence from observational studies on
associations of workplace ne...
Background: Lifestyle behaviors are modifiable factors that can provide information for designing intervention strategies for sarcopenia. The present study aimed to identify the relationships between a range of daily lifestyle behaviors and sarcopenia risks among older adults.
Methods: A nationwide telephone-based survey targeting older adults (≥6...
Study Objectives: The aim of this research was to investigate the relationships between objectively measured sleep duration and physical function in older adults.
Methods: We recruited community-dwelling older adults aged ≥ 60 years old in Taipei City, Taiwan. Sleep duration was measured with accelerometers and recorded as the total hours of sleep...
Spatial patterning and correlates of self-harm in Manchester, England – CORRIGENDUM - Volume 29 - Chien-Yu Lin, Harriet Bickley, Caroline Clements, Roger T. Webb, David Gunnell, Chia-Yueh Hsu, Shu-Sen Chang, Nav Kapur
Studies have indicated that sufficient physical activity levels and balanced dietary behavior are independently related to physical function in older populations; however, their joint associations with physical function remain unclear. This study examined the independent and combined associations of sufficient physical activity and balanced selecti...
Aims
To investigate the spatial distribution of self-harm incidence rates, their socioeconomic correlates and sex/age differences using data on self-harm presentations to emergency departments from The Manchester Self-Harm Project (2003–2013).
Methods
Smoothed standardised incidence ratios for index self-harm episodes ( n = 14 771) and their assoc...
Objectives: Although some studies have evaluated the concurrent validity of the Walk
Score® as a measure of neighborhood walkability in the United States, Canada, and Japan, whether the Walk Score® is a valid measure in Taiwan has not yet been determined. Accordingly, this study examined how Walk Score® is correlated with geographic information sy...
Introduction
Previous investigations on factors associated with depression were highly focused on personal characteristics and health behaviors; however, few studies used an ecological perspective on the issue, much less on sex differences. This study examined the factors associated with depression, including any sex differences.
Methods
A total o...
There is limited evidence for the associations of area-level crime with older adults’ physical activity and sedentary behavior, especially in Asia. This study explored the association of area-level crime with older adults’ active and sedentary behavior. A telephone-based survey of Taiwanese seniors was conducted in September–November of 2017. Data...
The World Health Organization reported that smoking is a primary health risk factor. The
prevalence of e-cigarette use in adolescents has increased recently. However, the association of e-cigarette use with smoking intentions and behaviors is unconfirmed. Through PubMed, PsycInfo, CINAHL, and Airiti Library, this study systematically reviewed studi...
This study aimed to investigate the associations between Walk Score® and lifestyle behaviors and health outcomes in older Taiwanese adults. A nationwide survey was conducted through telephone-based interviews with older adults (65 years and older) in Taiwan. Data on Walk Score®, lifestyle behaviors (physical activity, sedentary behavior, healthy ea...
More than half of the world's population now lives in urban areas. Understanding the spatial distribution of suicide in these settings may inform prevention. Previous analyses of the spatial distribution of suicide in cities have largely been conducted in Western nations. We investigated the spatial pattern of suicide and factors associated with it...
The study aimed to describe the prevalence of meeting moderate-to-vigorous-intensity physical activity (MVPA), muscle-strengthening (MS) activities, and television (TV) viewing guidelines and their association with sociodemographic factors. Data from older adults aged 65 or above were collected through telephone interviews. The prevalence of meetin...
Objectives: According to the World Health Organization, physical inactivity is the fourth most prevalent risk factor for mortality . Studies indicate that environmental walkability is one of the main determinants of to physical activity, walking behavior, obesity, and chronic diseases/medical expenditure exposure. The Walk Score® website, establish...
According to the World Health Organization, physical inactivity is the fourth most prevalent risk factor for mortality. Studies indicate that environmental walkability is one of the main determinants of physical activity, walking behavior, obesity, and chronic diseases/medical expenditure exposure. The Walk Score website, established in 2007, is a...
This study investigated associations of perceived environmental factors with leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) and screen time (ST) among older adults. A cross-sectional study was conducted by administering computer-assisted telephone interviews to 1028 older Taiwanese adults in November 2016. Data on personal factors, perceived environmental f...
Background
Although research has shown that numerous perceived environmental factors are supportive of physical activity, little is known about their associations with sedentary transport in motorcycle-oriented countries. This study examined the association between perceptions of Taiwan’s environmental factors and urban adults’ motorcycle use. Meth...
Sedentary transport is known to adversely affect health. Few studies have focused on motorcycle use. This study examines the association of motorcycle use with overweight in urban adults in Taiwan. Cross-sectional data from 1069 Taiwanese adults aged 20–64 years in three urban cities were collected in 2015. Data on self-reported body mass index, ti...
