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. 2023 Feb 9:32:102131.
doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2023.102131. eCollection 2023 Apr.

Associations between observed neighborhood physical disorder and health behaviors, New Jersey behavioral risk factor Surveillance System 2011-2016

Jesse J Plascak  1   2 , Tatyana Desire-Brisard  3 , Darren Mays  1   4 , Brittney Keller-Hamilton  1   4 , Andrew G Rundle  5 , Emma Rose  6 , Electra D Paskett  1   2 , Stephen J Mooney  7
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Associations between observed neighborhood physical disorder and health behaviors, New Jersey behavioral risk factor Surveillance System 2011-2016

Jesse J Plascak et al. Prev Med Rep. .

Abstract

This study tested associations between observed neighborhood physical disorder and tobacco use, alcohol binging, and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among a large population-based sample from an urban area of the United States. Individual-level data of this cross-sectional study were from adult respondents of the New Jersey Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2011-2016 (n = 62,476). Zip code tabulation area-level observed neighborhood physical disorder were from virtual audits of 23,276 locations. Tobacco use (current cigarette smoking or chewing tobacco, snuff, or snus use), monthly binge drinking occasions (5+/4+ drinks per occasion among males/females), and monthly sugar-sweetened beverages consumed were self-reported. Logistic and negative binomial regression models were used to generate odds ratios, prevalence rate ratios (PRR), 95 % confidence intervals (CI) by levels of physical disorder. Compared to the lowest quartile, residence in the second (PRR: 1.16; 95 % CI: 1.03, 1.13), third (PRR: 1.24; 95 % CI: 1.10, 1.40), and fourth (highest) quartile of physical disorder (PRR: 1.24; 95 % CI: 1.10, 1.40) was associated with higher monthly sugar-sweetened beverage consumption. Associations involving tobacco use and alcohol binging were mixed. Observed neighborhood disorder might be associated with unhealthy behaviors, especially sugar-sweetened beverage consumption.

Keywords: Alcohol binging; Observed neighborhood physical disorder; Population-based surveillance; Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption; Tobacco use.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. This study was supported by funds from the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and National Cancer Institute (P30CA072720-19: Cancer Prevention and Control Pilot award to JJP, K07CA222158-01 to JJP). This study was also partly supported by the Columbia Population Research Center (P2CHD058486 to AGR), the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (1R01HD087460-01 to AGR), and the National Library of Medicine (R00LM012868 to SJM).

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Observed neighborhood physical disorder within New Jersey urban zip codes.
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