IPEN Research
Teams
Brazil
IPEN Adult and Adolescent Research Team
Primary Investigator
Rodrigo Siqueir Reis
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Rodrigo Reis, 39, is Professor and Researcher at Pontiff Catholic of Parana and Federal University of Parana and Federal University of Parana (Brazil). Dr. Reis has an MSc in Physical Activity and Health (2001) and a PhD in Ergonomics (2005). He works as researcher and a consultant in community physical interventions and health behavior change projects in Brazil. He is currently working in projects with partnerships between US and Brazil. These include Project GUIA (Guide for Community in Latin America), Research Capacity Building for Physical Activity and Public Health in Brazil.
As part of IPEN he has adapted and developed environmental measures related to physical activity and applied them in research. The current project studies the association between built and perceived environments, physical activity and quality of life in Curitiba – Brazil. He has spoken at physical activity conferences in Brazil and in other countries and is also a reviewer in scientific journals. In addition, he is also on the Board of Brazilian Society for physical activity and Consultant in the Ministry of Health and National Industrial Social Service.
Research Team
Adriano Akira Ferreira Hino
Orcid ID: 0000-0003-1649-9419
Professor Akira is the leader of the Research Group of Physical Activity and Quality of Life (GPAQ) at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR) in Brazil. Currently, he is a professor in the Graduate Program of Health Sciences (PPGCS) at PUCPR.
He holds bachelor’s, master’s and PhD on Physical Education. Since his undergrad studies, he has been interested in the epidemiology of physical activity. Akira has focused his efforts on the evaluation of physical activity using various methods, including systematic observation, questionnaire and accelerometers. He has also evaluated community programs designed to promote physical activity and studied environmental correlates of physical activity across lifespan.
In 2008, Akira joined the IPEN team as a research assistant. He contributes to the IPEN adults project by assisting with fieldwork and leading the GIS analysis for the Brazilian data. In 2014-2015 professor Akira worked on data collection, processing, and also GIS analysis for Brazilian team’s IPEN adolescents project.
Project
Project SPACEs of Curitiba – Understanding the physical activity practices in the community
The IPEN study in Brazil will take place in Curitiba, the capital of the Parana state in the southern region of the country. The city has a population of approximately 1.797.408 inhabitants, with 84.8% of them being whites Latinos. Notably, the city’s green spaces and sustainable development strategies have contributed to its well-known health promotion and high quality of life.
The goals of this IPEN study are to explore: a) the association between walkability and both leisure and transport physical activity; and secondly b) association between quality of life, physical activity and access to public open spaces. To achieve these goals the study will select 16 census tracts from eight neighbourhoods based on walkability and SES variability. All 75 neighbourhoods in the city will be included in the study. The eligible participants will be adults aged 18 to 65 years (53% women). The study will recruit participants through random sampling in selected census tracts, and will conduct face-to-face interviews.
Following IPEN recommendations, the final sample size will be 512 people (30 in each neighborhood). Additionally, we also will extract a sub-sample of 270 people (9 in each neighborhood) to monitor physical activity through accelerometers. Participants will be interviewed using the international physical activity questionnaire (IPAQ), abbreviate neighborhood walkability scale (ANEWS), and also measures of psychosocial factors related to physical activity.
The IPEN funding will be mainly used to support data collection, for both in person interviews and accelerometers delivering, as well as technical assistance for accelerometry analysis and data management. To summarize, the IPEN study will contribute t understanding the importance of walkability and quality of life in promoting physical activities and public open spaces’ accessibility.
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