Convergent Validation of a Self-Reported Commuting to and from School Diary in Spanish Adolescents
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Gálvez Fernández, Patricia; Herrador Colmenero, Manuel; Campos Garzón, Pablo; Molina Soberanes, Daniel; Saucedo Araújo, Romina Gisele; Aranda Balboa, María Jesús; Segura Jiménez, Víctor; Chillón Garzón, PalmaEditorial
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Active transport Health behaviour Commuting time Students
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2022-12-20Referencia bibliográfica
Gálvez-Fernández, P... [et al.]. Convergent Validation of a Self-Reported Commuting to and from School Diary in Spanish Adolescents. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20, 18. [https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010018]
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Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness and the European Regional Development Fund (DEP2016-75598-R, MINECO/FEDER, UE); Spanish Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (FPU17/03934, FPU18/04251); University of Granada, Plan Propio de Investigación 2016, Excellence actions: Units of Excellence, Unit of Excellence on Exercise and Health (UCEES); Junta de Andalucía, Consejería de Conocimiento, Investigación y Universidades, European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), ref. SOMM17/6107/UGR; Instituto de Salud Carlos III through the fellowship CP20/00178 European Social FundAbstract
The aim of this study was to examine the convergent validity of self-reported diary times for commuting to and from school with device-measured positional data (Global Positioning System; GPS) in Spanish adolescents. Methods: Cross-sectional data were obtained from four Spanish public secondary schools in 2021, comprising 47 adolescents and 141 home-school and school-home trips. Participants self-reported the time they left and arrived at home and school through a commuting diary. They wore a GPS device recording the objective time during three trips (i.e., one home-school trip and two school-home trips). Agreement between commuting diary and GPS data regarding home-school trips and school-home trips was evaluated using Bland-Altman plots. Results: Total commuting time differed by 1 min (95% limits of agreement were 16.1 min and -18.1 min) between subjective and objective measures (adolescents reported 0.8 more minutes in home-school trips and 1 more minute in school-home trips compared to objective data). Passive commuters reported 0.7 more minutes and active commuters reported 1.2 more minutes in the total commuting time compared to objective data. Conclusions: Self-reported commuting diaries may be a useful tool to obtain commuting times of adolescents in epidemiological research or when tools to measure objective times are not feasible.