Evaluation of the implementation of a state government community design policy aimed at increasing local walking : design issues and baseline results from RESIDE, Perth Western Australia Giles-Corti, Billie, Knuiman, Matthew, Timperio, Anna, Van Niel, Kimberley, Pikora, Terry J., Bull, Fiona C. L., Shilton, Trevor and Bulsara, Max 2008, Evaluation of the implementation of a state government community design policy aimed at increasing local walking : design issues and baseline results from RESIDE, Perth Western Australia, Preventive medicine, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 46-54, doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2007.08.002. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Evaluation of the implementation of a state government community design policy aimed at increasing local walking : design issues and baseline results from RESIDE, Perth Western Australia Author(s) Giles-Corti, Billie Knuiman, Matthew Timperio, Anna orcid.org/0000-0002-8773-5012 Van Niel, Kimberley Pikora, Terry J. Bull, Fiona C. L. Shilton, Trevor Bulsara, Max Journal name Preventive medicine Volume number 46 Issue number 1 Start page 46 End page 54 Total pages 9 Publisher Academic Press Place of publication San Diego, Calif. Publication date 2008-01 ISSN 0091-7435 1096-0260 Keyword(s) environment neighborhood walking physical activity measurement urban design longitudinal Summary Objectives. To describe the design and baseline results of an evaluation of the Western Australian government's pedestrian-friendly subdivision design code (Liveable Neighborhood (LN) Guidelines). Methods. Baseline results (2003–2005) from a longitudinal study of people (n = 1813) moving into new housing developments: 18 Liveable, 11 Hybrid and 45 Conventional (i.e., LDs, HDs and CDs respectively) are presented including usual recreational and transport-related walking undertaken within and outside the neighborhood, and 7-day pedometer steps. Results. At baseline, more participants walked for recreation and transport within the neighborhood (52.6%; 36.1% respectively), than outside the neighborhood (17.7%; 13.2% respectively). Notably, only 20% of average total duration of walking (128.4 min/week (SD159.8)) was transport related and within the neighborhood. There were few differences between the groups' demographic, psychosocial and perceived neighborhood environmental characteristics, pedometer steps, or the type, amount and location of self-reported walking (p > 0.05). However, asked what factors influenced their choice of housing development, more participants moving into LDs reported aspects of their new neighborhood's walkability as important (p < 0.05). Conclusions. The baseline results underscore the desirability of incorporating behavior and context-specific measures and value of longitudinal designs to enable changes in behavior, attitudes, and urban form to be monitored, while adjusting for baseline residential location preferences. Language eng DOI 10.1016/j.ypmed.2007.08.002 Indigenous content on Field of Research 111701 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Socio Economic Objective 920205 Health Education and Promotion HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2007, Elsevier Inc. Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30017799 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 13:57:18 EST Tue, 22 Dec 2009, 10:29:22 EST Tue, 22 Dec 2009, 10:30:11 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 12:13:36 EST Tue, 01 Jul 2014, 15:27:50 EST Fri, 11 Jul 2014, 11:33:52 EST Fri, 11 Jul 2014, 11:35:16 EST Mon, 29 Sep 2014, 10:11:10 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 106 times in TR Web of Science Cited 127 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 963 Abstract Views, 6 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 13:57:18 EST