eprintid: 22144 rev_number: 17 eprint_status: archive userid: 14001 dir: disk0/00/02/21/44 datestamp: 2009-12-19 16:05:06 lastmod: 2025-05-01 13:51:45 status_changed: 2013-07-11 13:22:22 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Popham, Frank creators_name: Mitchell, Richard creators_orcid: 0000-0002-7263-7954 title: Relation of employment status to socioeconomic position and physical activity types ispublished: pub divisions: 25603000 divisions: 25605000 abstract: <b>Objective:</b><p></p> To investigate further associations between socioeconomic position and overall physical activity levels and specific types of physical activity. To investigate the role of employment status and health in these associations.<p></p> <b>Methods:</b><p></p> Cross-sectional analysis of self-reported physical activity of 2346 men and 2941 women aged 25 to 64 interviewed for the 2003 Scottish Health Survey. Poisson regression was used to generate prevalence ratios in multivariate analysis.<p></p> <b>Results:</b><p></p> Accumulated socioeconomic disadvantage was associated with doing little or no overall physical activity (19 and 16% of most advantaged men and women vs. 44 and 40% for most disadvantaged, age adjusted prevalence ratio: 2.02, 95% CI 1.60,2.56 and 2.21, 95% CI 1.81,2.71 for men and women). The association was attenuated by accounting for employment status and health (prevalence ratio 1.15, 95% CI 0.90,1.47 and 1.50, 95% CI 1.22,1.84 for men and women). Despite occupational activity being associated with lower socioeconomic position, the most disadvantaged did not have the highest rates because they were most likely to be out of employment.<p></p> <b>Conclusion:</b><p></p> Comparing only those achieving the recommended level of physical activity to all others may obscure clear socioeconomic differences in physical activity. Policies to increase physical activity participation for the most disadvantaged are needed.<p></p> date: 2007-08-01 date_type: published publisher: Elsevier id_number: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2007.06.012 official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2007.06.012 uniqueid: glaseprints:2007-22144 published_online: 2007-06-27 issn_online: 1096-0260 scopus_impact: 11 scopus_cluster: 2-s2.0-34548312527 scopus_datestamp: 2013-10-25 20:25:24 wos_impact: 10 wos_cluster: WOS:000250032900019 wos_datestamp: 2013-10-24 21:40:07 full_text_status: none publication: Preventive Medicine volume: 45 number: 2-3 pagerange: 182-188 refereed: TRUE issn: 0091-7435 related_url_url: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Relation+of+employment+status+to+socioeconomic+position+and+physical+activity+types related_url_type: pubmed hoa_compliant: 305 hoa_date_pub: 2007-06-27 hoa_exclude: FALSE hoa_gold: FALSE citation: Popham, Frank and Mitchell, Richard (2007) Relation of employment status to socioeconomic position and physical activity types. Preventive Medicine , 45(2-3), pp. 182-188. (doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2007.06.012 )