Children and Parental Barriers to Active Commuting to School: A Comparison Study
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Aranda Balboa, María Jesús; Chillón Garzón, Palma; Saucedo Araújo, Romina Gisele; Molina García, Javier; Huertas Delgado, Francisco JavierEditorial
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Materia
Family Youth Perception Active transport
Fecha
2021Referencia bibliográfica
Aranda-Balboa, M.J.; Chillón, P.; Saucedo-Araujo, R.G.; Molina-García, J.; Huertas-Delgado, F.J. Children and Parental Barriers to Active Commuting to School: A Comparison Study. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 2504. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052504
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Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness; European Commission DEP2016-75598-R; University of Granada, Plan Propio de Investigacion 2016, Excellence actions: Units of Excellence; Unit of Excellence on Exercise and Health (UCEES); Junta de Andalucía; European Commission; European Social Fund (ESF)Resumen
The main objectives of this study were: to compare the barriers to active commuting to
and from school (ACS) between children and their parents separately for children and adolescents;
and to analyze the association between ACS and the children’s and parents’ barriers. A total of
401 child–parent pairs, from Granada, Jaén, Toledo and Valencia, self-reported, separately, their
mode of commuting to school and work, respectively, and the children’s barriers to ACS. T-tests and
chi-square tests were used to analyze the differences by age for continuous and categorical variables,
respectively. Binary logistic regressions were performed to study the association between ACS
barriers of children and parents and ACS. Both children and adolescents perceived higher physical
and motivational barriers and social support barriers towards ACS than their parents (all p < 0.05).
Additionally, the parents perceived higher distance, traffic safety, convenience, built environment,
crime-related safety and weather as barriers towards ACS, than their children (all p < 0.05). Moreover,
a higher perception of barriers was related to lower ACS. The results of our study showed the necessity
of attenuating the perceptions of children and their parents in order to increase ACS. This is relevant
to develop interventions in the specific contexts of each barrier and involving both populations.