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Low-income communities often have fewer quality community-level physical activity places (PAPs) or resources (e.g., parks, playgrounds). When present, barriers like traffic, distance, and crime often prevent access. Creative solutions and better understanding of current and potential realistic PAPs are necessary for children and families to be active. Streets are rarely considered potential PAPs despite their ubiquity and accessibility. This article describes street segments as potential PAPs in two low-income Mexican-heritage colonias communities along the Texas-Mexico border. Promotora-researchers conducted PAP assessments of all street segments (n=867) in the two communities to describe the availability and quality of their physical activity features (e.g., basketball hoops, bicycles), amenities (e.g., paved driveways, yard space), and incivilities (e.g., vandalism, loose dogs). Streets in these communities did contain features and amenities associated with physical activity promotion. On average, street segments had 6.10 (SD=7.20) physical activity-promoting features, 27.65 (SD=27.30) physical activity-promoting amenities, and both were assessed as good-to-fair quality. Future physical activity programming should consider incorporating streets as potential PAPs to enhance physical activity and active play. Further, evaluating streets as PAPs in this way may provide insight into locations for temporary place-based programs such as Play Streets. Future research should also examine residents\' perceptions of their streets as PAPs for safe physical activity and active play, not just as places to walk, and which PAP characteristics matter for safe physical activity and active play to occur on streets.
摘要：
低收入社区通常拥有较少的优质社区级体育活动场所（PAP）或资源（例如，公园,游乐场）。当存在时,交通等障碍，距离,犯罪经常阻止访问。创造性的解决方案和更好地了解当前和潜在的现实PAP是儿童和家庭积极活动的必要条件。街道很少被认为是潜在的PAP，尽管它们无处不在和可访问性。本文将街道段描述为德克萨斯州-墨西哥边界沿线两个低收入墨西哥传统殖民地社区的潜在PAP。Promotora研究人员对两个社区的所有街道段（n=867）进行了PAP评估，以描述其身体活动特征的可用性和质量（例如，篮球架,自行车),便利设施(例如，铺好的车道,院子空间)，和偶然性(例如，故意破坏,松散的狗）。这些社区的街道确实包含与体育活动促进相关的功能和便利设施。平均而言,街道段具有6.10(SD=7.20)的体育活动促进特征，27.65(标准差=27.30)体育活动促进设施，两者都被评估为良好到公平的质量。未来的身体活动计划应考虑将街道作为潜在的PAP，以增强身体活动和积极发挥。Further,以这种方式将街道评估为PAP可以提供对临时基于地点的程序(例如,PlayStreets)的位置的洞察。未来的研究还应该检查居民对街道的看法，作为安全体育活动和积极游戏的PAP，不仅仅是散步的地方，以及哪些PAP特征对街道上的安全体育活动和积极游戏很重要。
