| （1.Shanghai University of Sport，Shanghai 200438，China；2.Shanghai Theatre Academy，Shanghai 201102，China) Abstract: In order to probe into the relationship between built environments and static workers’ BMI, the authors selected totally 12 044 people (5 902 males and 6 142 females) mainly working in a static way in an office as the samples from adults ages 20-59, who had participated in 2010 Shanghai National Fitness Test, analyzed the rela-tionship between the BMIs of the males and females and built environment variables by using ordered multi-class logistic regression models, in which BMI evaluation ratings (1=normal, 2=overweight, 3=obese) were used as de-pendent variables, such 3 built environment variables as whether the work place has public sports playgrounds and facilities, whether the residence community (village) has public sports playgrounds and facilities and the distance from the residence location to the work place, were used as independent variables, age group, education level, num-ber of times to participate in sports games held by the company (village or town) and whether the company (village) provides physical exercise subsidies, were used as control variables and entered into the equations, and revealed the following findings: among the males, as compared with the surveyed whose residence location is more than 6 000m away from the work place, the estimated coefficient of the BMI evaluation rating of the surveyed whose residence location is less than 1 000m away from the work place being 1 level lower was 0.233 (P=0.002); as compared with the surveyed whose residence community (village) has no public sports playgrounds and facilities, the esti-mated coefficient of the BMI evaluation rating of the males surveyed whose residence community (village) has pub-lic sports playgrounds and facilities being 1 level higher was 0.156 (P=0.0031); among the females, as compared with the surveyed whose work place has no public sports playgrounds and facilities, the estimated coefficient of the BMI evaluation rating of the surveyed whose work place has public sports playgrounds and facilities being 1 level lower was 0.202(P=0.005); as compared with the surveyed whose residence location is more than 6 000m away from the work place, the estimated coefficient of the BMI evaluation rating of the surveyed whose residence loca-tion is 1 000-3 000m away from the work place being 1 level lower was 0.211(P=0.013). The said findings indicate that the increase of the distance from the residence location to the work place will increase the rates of occurrence of overweight and obesity of males and females working in a static way in Shanghai.
Key words: sports physiclogy；built environment；static work；body mass index；sports playground；Shanghai |
