Associations between neighbourhood characteristics, physical activity and depressive symptoms: the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study

NFBC1966 received financial support from the University of Oulu (grant no. 24000692), Oulu University Hospital (grant no. 24301140) and European Regional Development Fund (grant no. 539/2010 A31592). This work was supported by the Medical Research Center, Oulu (NR, MN), the Juho Vainio Foundation (MS, JM), the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation (JM), the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture (grant nos. OKM/86/626/2014, OKM/43/626/2015, OKM/17/626/2016, OKM2017, OKM2018 and OKM/54/626/2019, OKM/85/626/2019, OKM/1096/626/2020, OKM/20/626/2022 and OKM/76/626/2022) and the Strategic Research Council established within the Academy of Finland (grant nos. 345220 and 345222).

NFBC data are available from the University of Oulu, Infrastructure for Population Studies. Permission to use the data can be applied for research purposes via an electronic material request portal. In the use of data, we followed the EU general data protection regulation (679/2016) and the Finnish Data Protection Act. The use of personal data is based on a cohort participant’s written informed consent in their latest follow-up study, which may cause limitations to its use. Please contact the NFBC project centre (NFBCprojectcenter@oulu.fi) and visit the cohort website (www.oulu.fi/nfbc) for more information.

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