Systematic review of interventions for promoting active school transport Villa González, Emilio Barranco-Ruiz, Yaira R. Evenson, Kelly Chillón Garzón, Palma Active commuting School Young Intervention programs Public health "This is an original manuscript of an article published by Elsevier in PREVENTIVE MEDICINE on JUNE 2018, available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2018.02.010. The citation for this publication is: Villa-González E, Barranco-Ruiz Y, Evenson KR, Chillón P. Systematic review of interventions for promoting active school transport. Prev Med. 2018 Jun;111:115-134. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2018.02.010. Epub 2018 Feb 26. PMID: 29496615. © <2018r>. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. It aligns with the hosting policy of Elsevier". Active commuting to school has been recognized as a potential avenue to increase physical activity in children and adolescents. However, active commuting to school has declined over time, and interventions are needed to reverse this trend. The main aim in the current study was to update a previous systematic review on inter- ventions focused on active travel to school, following the same methodology and addressing the quality and effectiveness of new studies detected in the more recent scientific literature. A systematic review was conducted to identify intervention studies of active commuting to school published from February 2010 to December 2016. Five electronic databases and a manual search were conducted. Detailed information was extracted, including a quantitative assessment comparing the effect sizes, with Cohen's d, and a qualitative assessment using the Evaluation of Public Health Practice Projects tool. We identified 23 interventions that focused on active com- muting to school. Among the 23 interventions, three were randomized control trials, 22 had a pre/post design, and 12 used control groups. Most interventions reported a small effect size on active commuting to school (14/ 23) (d: from‐1.45 to 2.37). The quality assessment was rated as weak in most studies (21/23). Government funding continues investing in public policies to promote active commuting to school. However, even though seven years have passed since the last systematic review, research with high quality designs with randomization, greater sample size, and the use of valid and reliable instruments are needed. 2024-02-06T08:50:32Z 2024-02-06T08:50:32Z 2018 journal article Villa-González, E., Barranco-Ruiz, Y., Evenson, K. R., & Chillón, P. (2018). Systematic review of interventions for promoting active school transport. Preventive medicine, 111, 115-134. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/88340 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2018.02.010 eng open access ELSEVIER