Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Authors; Introduction: Physical activity (PA) is beneficial for health. However, most children do not achieve the daily recommended PA levels. This study assesses changes in parental perception of the neighborhood environment from 2009 to 2016 across three Portuguese districts, and explores the associations between parental perception of the neighborhood environment and children'...
Funding Information: This research was funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), grant number PTDC/DTP-SAP/1520/2014. Publisher Copyright: © 2025 by the authors.; Background/Objectives: Previous research has indicated that gender differences exist in the relationship between neighborhood socioeconomic (SE) deprivation and childhood excessive body weight. However, none of these studies were cond...
Funding Information: This work was supported by a grant (reference: PTDC/DTP-SAP/1520/2014) from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal. Publisher Copyright: © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.; The present study examines whether the association of the neighborhood environment and overweight in children is moderated by age. This was a ...