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Table 5 Associations between neighbourhood built environment features and morphological fitness (n = 16 studies)

From: The neighbourhood built environment and health-related fitness: a narrative systematic review

Author, year

Design

Density

Transit

Destination proximity

Diversity

Desirability

Distributed

Composite or other

Bailly, 2018 [45]

       

+

Johnson, 2006 [48]

=

=

 

=

+

=

  

Lee, 2012 [51]

=

   

–

=

  

Lee, 2017 [24]

-, =

   

-, =

+, =

  

Nies, 2002 [54]

   

=

=

   

Sarkar, 2017b [59]

     

–

  

Shaffer, 2017 [31]

=

   

=

=

 

=

Sofkova, 2013 [60]

=

=

 

=

=

=

 

-, =

Ellaway, 2018a [47]

     

+

  

Leach, 2013a [50]

=

   

=

=

 

=

Lewin, 2014a [52]

 

-, =

      

McCormack, 2020a [23]

       

+, =

Okuyama, 2020a [20]

=

=

–

=

    

Pham, 2014a [56]

     

-, =

  

Sarkar, 2017aa [58]

 

+, −, =

      

Sun, 2020a [21]

=

=

  

-, =

-, =

 

=

Total associationsb

-1, =8

+1, −2, =6

-1

=4

+1, −3, =6

+2, −2, =8

 

+2, −1, =5

  1. +: any statistically significant positive association
  2. -: any statistically significant negative association
  3. =: any non-statistically significant association
  4. aadjustment for self-reported physical activity
  5. bSuperscript indicates total number of studies finding positive, negative or null associations