Active Transportation to School
| Autor: | Jessica L. Shisler, Carl J. Caspersen, Janet E. Fulton, Michelle M. Yore |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Physical fitness Ethnic group Poison control Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Walking Overweight Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Age Distribution Injury prevention Odds Ratio Humans Medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Sex Distribution Child Students business.industry Human factors and ergonomics General Medicine Health Surveys United States Bicycling Logistic Models Socioeconomic Factors Nephrology Physical therapy Female medicine.symptom business Demography |
| Zdroj: | Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport. 76:352-357 |
| ISSN: | 2168-3824 0270-1367 |
| Popis: | This article reports on a survey of active transportation to school, focusing on the bicycling or walking to school habits of a national sample of boys and girls in grades 4-12 (n = 1,395 parent-child pairs). The interviewers asked each parent and a randomly selected child from the same household about patterns of physical activity and characteristics thought to predict such activity. Overall, 14% of children and adolescents reported active transportation to school (ATS). ATS ws more frequent among boys (16.6%) than girls (11.1%) and among children in lower than upper grades: 20.5% in grades 4-6, 12.4% in grades 7-9, and 8.0% in grades 10-12. Hispanic race/ethnicity, living with one parent, and perceiving a safe neighborhood were associated with ATS in the unadjusted but not the adjusted logistic model. After adjustment, several characteristics remained independently associated with ATS, including gender, grade level, living in a suburb or small town, parent not currently married, moderate physical activity of the child, perception of being too overweight to do physical activities, and presence of neighborhood sidewalks. The authors conclude that the most modifiable characteristic associated with ATS is the presence of neighborhood sidewalks. |
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