TY - JOUR AU - Pratt, Michael AU - Yin, Shaoman AU - Soler, Robin AU - Njai, Rashid AU - Siegel, Paul Z. AU - Liao, Youlian PY - 2015 TI - Does Perceived Neighborhood Walkability and Safety Mediate the Association Between Education and Meeting Physical Activity Guidelines? T2 - Preventing Chronic Disease JO - Prev Chronic Dis SP - E46 VL - 12 CY - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA. N2 - The role of neighborhood walkability and safety in mediating the association between education and physical activity has not been quantified. We used data from the 2010 and 2012 Communities Putting Prevention to Work Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and structural equation modeling to estimate how much of the effect of education level on physical activity was mediated by perceived neighborhood walkability and safety. Neighborhood walkability accounts for 11.3% and neighborhood safety accounts for 6.8% of the effect. A modest proportion of the important association between education and physical activity is mediated by perceived neighborhood walkability and safety, suggesting that interventions focused on enhancing walkability and safety could reduce the disparity in physical activity associated with education level. SN - 1545-1151 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd12.140570 DO - 10.5888/pcd12.140570 ER -