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Walking and Cycling to School

Hume, Clare, Timperio, Anna, Salmon, Jo, Carver, Alison, Giles-Corti, Billie, Crawford, David·2009·American Journal of Preventive Medicine
DOI 10.1016/j.amepre.2008.10.011
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Background Little is known about what happens to active commuting as children get older, and less is known about influences on changes in this behavior. This study examined predictors of increases in children's and adolescents' active commuting (walking or cycling) to/from school over a 2-year period.Methods Participants were initially recruited and assessed in 2001. Follow-up data were collected in 2004 and 2006 and analyzed in 2008. Participants were 121 children (aged 9.1+/-0.34 years in 2004) and 188 adolescents (aged 14.5+/-0.65 years in 2004) from Melbourne, Australia. Parents and adolescents reported their perceptions of individual-level factors and of the neighborhood social and physical environment. Weekly active commuting (walking or cycling) to/from school, ranging from 0 to 10 trips/week was also proxy- or self-reported at the initial measurement and again 2 years later. Logistic regression analyses examined predictors of increases in active commuting over time.Results Children whose parents knew many people in their neighborhood were more likely to increase their active commuting (OR=2.6; CI=1.2, 5.9; p=0.02) compared with other children. Adolescents whose parents perceived there to be insufficient traffic lights and pedestrian crossings in their neighborhood were less likely to increase their active commuting over 2 years (OR=0.4; CI=0.2, 0.8; p=0.01), whereas adolescents of parents who were satisfied with the number of pedestrian crossings were more likely to increase their active commuting (OR=2.4; CI=1.1, 5.4; p=0.03) compared with other adolescents.Conclusions Social factors and physical environmental characteristics were the most important predictors of active commuting in children and adolescents, respectively.

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Authors
Hume, C., Timperio, A., Salmon, J., Carver, A., Giles-Corti, B., & Crawford, D.
Affiliations
Deakin University (AU)
Corresponding author
Hume, Clare
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Venue
American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2009-03
Volume
36
Issue
3
Pages
195-200
ISSN
0749-3797 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.amepre.2008.10.011
OpenAlex
W1545148334
Cited by
191
References
26
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FWCI
43.75
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • American Journal of Preventive Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Transportation › Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality › Traffic and Road Safety
Keywords
active commuting, walking to school, cycling to school, children, adolescents, neighborhood social environment, neighborhood physical environment, pedestrian crossings, traffic signals, parental social networks
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Age Factors, Bicycling, Child, Data Collection, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Male, Parents, Prospective Studies, Students, Transportation, Victoria, Logistic Models, Walking

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