Verity J Cleland

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Affiliation: Deakin University
Country: Australia

Publications

  1. ncbi Are perceptions of the physical and social environment associated with mothers' walking for leisure and for transport? A longitudinal study
    Verity J Cleland
    Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood 3125, Victoria, Australia
    Prev Med 47:188-93. 2008
  2. ncbi Predictors of time spent outdoors among children: 5-year longitudinal findings
    V Cleland
    Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood 3125, Australia
    J Epidemiol Community Health 64:400-6. 2010
  3. ncbi Socioeconomic position and the tracking of physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness from childhood to adulthood
    Verity J Cleland
    Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia
    Am J Epidemiol 170:1069-77. 2009
  4. ncbi Urban-rural comparison of weight status among women and children living in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods
    Verity Cleland
    Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, Deakin University, Melbourne, Vic
    Med J Aust 192:137-40. 2010
  5. ncbi A longitudinal study of the family physical activity environment and physical activity among youth
    Verity Cleland
    Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia
    Am J Health Promot 25:159-67. 2011
  6. ncbi Individual, social and environmental correlates of physical activity among women living in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods
    Verity Cleland
    Deakin University, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, 221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia
    Soc Sci Med 70:2011-8. 2010
  7. ncbi Personal, social and environmental correlates of resilience to physical inactivity among women from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds
    Verity J Cleland
    Centre for Physical Activity utrition Research, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood Victoria 3125, Australia
    Health Educ Res 25:268-81. 2010
  8. ncbi A prospective examination of children's time spent outdoors, objectively measured physical activity and overweight
    V Cleland
    Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood, Victoria, Australia
    Int J Obes (Lond) 32:1685-93. 2008
  9. ncbi Television viewing and abdominal obesity in young adults: is the association mediated by food and beverage consumption during viewing time or reduced leisure-time physical activity?
    Verity J Cleland
    Menzies Research Institute, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
    Am J Clin Nutr 87:1148-55. 2008
  10. ncbi Physical activity and healthy weight maintenance from childhood to adulthood
    Verity J Cleland
    Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
    Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:1427-33. 2008

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Publications24

  1. ncbi Are perceptions of the physical and social environment associated with mothers' walking for leisure and for transport? A longitudinal study
    Verity J Cleland
    Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood 3125, Victoria, Australia
    Prev Med 47:188-93. 2008
    ..This study aimed to cross-sectionally and prospectively examine whether local physical and social environments were associated with mothers' walking for leisure and for transport...
  2. ncbi Predictors of time spent outdoors among children: 5-year longitudinal findings
    V Cleland
    Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood 3125, Australia
    J Epidemiol Community Health 64:400-6. 2010
    ..This study aimed to understand individual, social and physical environmental influences on longitudinal changes in urban children's time outdoors...
  3. ncbi Socioeconomic position and the tracking of physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness from childhood to adulthood
    Verity J Cleland
    Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia
    Am J Epidemiol 170:1069-77. 2009
    ..Findings highlight socioeconomic differentials in activity and fitness patterns and suggest that improvements in education may represent a pathway through which physical activity levels can be increased and health benefits achieved...
  4. ncbi Urban-rural comparison of weight status among women and children living in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods
    Verity Cleland
    Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, Deakin University, Melbourne, Vic
    Med J Aust 192:137-40. 2010
    ..To compare the weight status of women and children living in socioeconomically disadvantaged rural and urban neighbourhoods in Victoria...
  5. ncbi A longitudinal study of the family physical activity environment and physical activity among youth
    Verity Cleland
    Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia
    Am J Health Promot 25:159-67. 2011
    ..This study aimed to examine the longitudinal relationship between the family environment and PA among youth...
  6. ncbi Individual, social and environmental correlates of physical activity among women living in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods
    Verity Cleland
    Deakin University, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, 221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia
    Soc Sci Med 70:2011-8. 2010
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  7. ncbi Personal, social and environmental correlates of resilience to physical inactivity among women from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds
    Verity J Cleland
    Centre for Physical Activity utrition Research, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood Victoria 3125, Australia
    Health Educ Res 25:268-81. 2010
    ..09) were significantly associated with achieving recommended LTPA. Personal factors were the characteristics most strongly associated with achieving recommended levels of LTPA among women from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds...
  8. ncbi A prospective examination of children's time spent outdoors, objectively measured physical activity and overweight
    V Cleland
    Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood, Victoria, Australia
    Int J Obes (Lond) 32:1685-93. 2008
    ....
  9. ncbi Television viewing and abdominal obesity in young adults: is the association mediated by food and beverage consumption during viewing time or reduced leisure-time physical activity?
    Verity J Cleland
    Menzies Research Institute, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
    Am J Clin Nutr 87:1148-55. 2008
    ..The behavioral pathways through which television (TV) viewing leads to increased adiposity in adults are unclear...
  10. ncbi Physical activity and healthy weight maintenance from childhood to adulthood
    Verity J Cleland
    Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
    Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:1427-33. 2008
    ..Examining personal, social, and environmental factors associated with healthy weight maintenance will be an important next step in understanding why some groups avoid becoming overweight...
  11. ncbi The provision of compulsory school physical activity: associations with physical activity, fitness and overweight in childhood and twenty years later
    Verity Cleland
    Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Hobart Tasmania 7000, Australia
    Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 5:14. 2008
    ..To determine whether the provision of higher levels of compulsory school physical activity is associated with higher physical activity and fitness levels and less overweight in childhood and 20 years later...
  12. ncbi Factors affecting the stability of blood lipid and lipoprotein levels from youth to adulthood: evidence from the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health Study
    Costan G Magnussen
    Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
    Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 165:68-76. 2011
    ..To examine the effect of lifestyle changes on the stability of blood lipid and lipoprotein levels from youth to adulthood...
  13. ncbi Do food and physical activity environments vary between disadvantaged urban and rural areas? Findings from the READI Study
    Lukar E Thornton
    Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, Victoria
    Health Promot J Austr 23:153-6. 2012
    ..This study investigated whether the presence and density of environmental amenities related to physical activity and eating behaviours differs between socioeconomically disadvantaged urban and rural areas in Victoria, Australia...
  14. ncbi Love thy neighbour? Associations of social capital and crime with physical activity amongst women
    Kylie Ball
    Deakin University, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia
    Soc Sci Med 71:807-14. 2010
    ..Further investigation of causal mechanisms underlying these associations is required...
  15. ncbi Home and neighbourhood correlates of BMI among children living in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods
    David A Crawford
    Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC 3125, Australia
    Br J Nutr 107:1028-36. 2012
    ..Increasing efficacy among mothers to promote physical activity, limiting use of food as a reward and not placing TV in children's bedrooms may be important targets for future obesity prevention initiatives in disadvantaged communities...
  16. ncbi Socioeconomic position and children's physical activity and sedentary behaviors: longitudinal findings from the CLAN study
    Kylie Ball
    Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Vic, Australia
    J Phys Act Health 6:289-98. 2009
    ..This study aimed to examine cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between socioeconomic position (SEP) and physical activity and sedentary behaviors amongst children and adolescents...
  17. ncbi Cardiometabolic risk in younger and older adults across an index of ambulatory activity
    Michael D Schmidt
    Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
    Am J Prev Med 37:278-84. 2009
    ..To maximize their utility, a framework for classifying pedometer-determined activity into meaningful health-related categories is needed...
  18. ncbi Overweight and obesity from childhood to adulthood: a follow-up of participants in the 1985 Australian Schools Health and Fitness Survey
    Alison J Venn
    Menzies Research Institute, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
    Med J Aust 186:458-60. 2007
    ..To examine overweight and obesity in Australian children followed through to adulthood...
  19. ncbi Decline in physical fitness from childhood to adulthood associated with increased obesity and insulin resistance in adults
    Terence Dwyer
    Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia
    Diabetes Care 32:683-7. 2009
    ..To examine how fitness in both childhood and adulthood is associated with adult obesity and insulin resistance...
  20. ncbi A comparison of subjective and objective measures of physical activity and fitness in identifying associations with cardiometabolic risk factors
    Michael D Schmidt
    Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
    Ann Epidemiol 18:378-86. 2008
    ..To compare the ability of alternative measures of physical activity and fitness to quantify associations with health outcomes...
  21. ncbi Correlates of pedometer-measured and self-reported physical activity among young Australian adults
    Verity J Cleland
    Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, Deakin University, Australia
    J Sci Med Sport 14:496-503. 2011
    ..Many physical activity correlates differed depending on the measure employed; researchers should be mindful of these differences when selecting measures of physical activity...
  22. ncbi Is a perceived supportive physical environment important for self-reported leisure time physical activity among socioeconomically disadvantaged women with poor psychosocial characteristics? An observational study
    Verity J Cleland
    Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia
    BMC Public Health 13:280. 2013
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  23. ncbi Physical activity correlates in young women with depressive symptoms: a qualitative study
    Denise Azar
    Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood, Vic, 3125, Australia
    Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 7:3. 2010
    ..The aim of this study was to gather in-depth information about the correlates of physical activity among young women with and without depressive symptoms...
  24. ncbi Exercise-induced hypertension, cardiovascular events, and mortality in patients undergoing exercise stress testing: a systematic review and meta-analysis
    Martin G Schultz
    Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
    Am J Hypertens 26:357-66. 2013
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