Moderate-vigorous physical activity and health-related quality of life among Hispanic/Latino adults in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)

Priscilla M Vásquez; Ramon A Durazo-Arvizu; David X Marquez; Maria Argos; Melissa Lamar; Angela Odoms-Young; Donghong Wu; Hector M González; Wassim Tarraf; Daniela Sotres-Alvarez; Denise Vidot; Rosenda Murillo; Krista M Perreira; Sheila F Castañeda; Yasmin Mossavar-Rahmani; Jianwen Cai; Marc Gellman; Martha L Daviglus

doi:10.1186/s41687-019-0129-y

Moderate-vigorous physical activity and health-related quality of life among Hispanic/Latino adults in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)

J Patient Rep Outcomes. 2019 Jul 24;3(1):45. doi: 10.1186/s41687-019-0129-y.

Authors

Priscilla M Vásquez¹, Ramon A Durazo-Arvizu^{2

3}, David X Marquez⁴, Maria Argos⁵, Melissa Lamar^{3

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7}, Angela Odoms-Young⁴, Donghong Wu³, Hector M González^{8

9}, Wassim Tarraf¹⁰, Daniela Sotres-Alvarez¹¹, Denise Vidot¹², Rosenda Murillo¹³, Krista M Perreira¹⁴, Sheila F Castañeda¹⁵, Yasmin Mossavar-Rahmani¹⁶, Jianwen Cai¹⁷, Marc Gellman¹⁸, Martha L Daviglus^{3

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive #0949, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0949, USA. pvasquezguevara@ucsd.edu.
² Department of Preventive Health Sciences, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL, USA.
³ Institute for Minority Health Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁴ Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁵ Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁶ Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁷ Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center and the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁸ Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive #0949, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0949, USA.
⁹ Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
¹⁰ Institute of Gerontology and Department of Healthcare Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA.
¹¹ Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
¹² School of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA.
¹³ Psychological, Health, and Learning Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
¹⁵ Division of Health Promotion and Behavioral Science, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA.
¹⁶ Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
¹⁷ Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
¹⁸ Behavioral Medicine Research Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA.

Abstract

Background: Physical activity is a modifiable healthy behavior that has been shown to positively influence health-related quality of life. However, research examining the link between physical activity and health-related quality of life among Hispanic/Latino adults is limited and inconsistent. The purpose of this study is to assess whether accelerometer-measured moderate-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) is associated with self-reported (a) mental health-related quality of life, and (b) physical health-related quality of life among diverse Hispanic/Latino adults in the US.

Methods: Cross-sectional data from 12,379 adults ages 18-74 years in 2008-2011, who participated in HCHS/SOL and had complete data were analyzed using complex survey design methods. Accelerometer data were categorized into no MVPA, low, moderate, and high MVPA. Health-related quality of life was assessed with the Short-Form 12 and we used the mental and physical component subscales where higher scores indicate better health-related quality of life. Multivariate linear regression models were used to derive adjusted means with 95% confidence intervals and linear trends.

Results: We observed no significant linear trend between accelerometer-measured MVPA and mental health-related quality of life (p_trend = 0.73). There was a significant positive association between MVPA and physical health-related quality of life (p_trend < 0.001) where higher MVPA corresponded with higher scores in physical health-related quality of life. The adjusted means were 46.67 (44.85-48.48) for no MVPA, 49.33 (49.03-49.63) for low MVPA, 50.61 (50.09-51.13) for moderate MVPA, and 51.36 (50.86-51.86) for high MVPA.

Conclusions: Among diverse Hispanic/Latino adults in the US, accelerometer-measured MVPA was associated with physical health-related quality of life, but not mental health-related quality of life. Future interventions should evaluate if increases in MVPA lead to improvements in health-related quality of life.

Keywords: Accelerometer; Health-related quality of life; Hispanic; Latino; Physical activity; SF-12.

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