PLoS ONE
Volume 6, Issue 10, 2011

Socio-demographic patterning of physical activity across migrant groups in India: Results from the indian migration study (Article) (Open Access)

Sullivan R.* , Kinra S. , Ekelund U. , Bharathi A.V. , Vaz M. , Kurpad A. , Collier T. , Reddy K. , Prabhakaran D. , Ben-Shlomo Y. , Smith G.D. , Ebrahim S. , Kuper H.
  • a Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
  • b Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
  • c Medical Research Council, Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • d Indira Gandhi National Open University, Bangalore, India
  • e St. John's Research Institute, Bangalore, India
  • f St. John's Research Institute, Bangalore, India
  • g Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
  • h Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
  • i Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India
  • j School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
  • k School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Medical Research Council Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
  • l Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, South Asia Network for Chronic Disease, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
  • m Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Abstract

Objective: To investigate the relationship between rural to urban migration and physical activity (PA) in India. Methods: 6,447 (42% women) participants comprising 2077 rural, 2,094 migrants and 2,276 urban were recruited. Total activity (MET hr/day), activity intensity (min/day), PA Level (PAL) television viewing and sleeping (min/day) were estimated and associations with migrant status examined, adjusting for the sib-pair design, age, site, occupation, education, and socio-economic position (SEP). Results: Total activity was highest in rural men whereas migrant and urban men had broadly similar activity levels (p&0.001). Women showed similar patterns, but slightly lower levels of total activity. Sedentary behaviour and television viewing were lower in rural residents and similar in migrant and urban groups. Sleep duration was highest in the rural group and lowest in urban non-migrants. Migrant men had considerably lower odds of being in the highest quartile of total activity than rural men, a finding that persisted after adjustment for age, SEP and education (OR 0.53, 95% CI 0.37, 0.74). For women, odds ratios attenuated and associations were removed after adjusting for age, SEP and education. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that migrants have already acquired PA levels that closely resemble long-term urban residents. Effective public health interventions to increase PA are needed. © 2011 Sullivan et al.

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Index Keywords

physical activity urban population educational status immigrant India physiology demography risk human sex difference middle aged Odds Ratio statistics rural population controlled study Confidence Intervals Confidence interval Humans sexual development Sex Characteristics male urban rural difference residential area Socioeconomic Factors female Multivariate Analysis socioeconomics Article employment status sleep time adult migration age television viewing Sedentary Lifestyle Motor Activity Emigration and Immigration
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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-80054119414&doi=10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0024898&partnerID=40&md5=45496b013ddbea79b45364a4b24bbcb9
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024898
ISSN: 19326203
Cited by: 41
Original Language: English