Differences between adolescents' and their parents' perceived benefits and barriers to actively commute to school: The PACO y PACA project

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/49777513:23420/24:43972746

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=6PapchPxYx" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=6PapchPxYx</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2024.101889" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jth.2024.101889</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Differences between adolescents' and their parents' perceived benefits and barriers to actively commute to school: The PACO y PACA project

Original language description

Introduction: Adolescents&apos; and Parents&apos; perceptions of active commuting to school ACS have been studied mainly separately. This study aims to: (1) examine and compare the benefits and barriers of walking to school perceived by adolescents and their parents within the whole sample, (2) and based on adolescents&apos; modes of commuting to school (walking and using motorized transport). Methods: Third grade adolescents at secondary education from 4 Spanish cities and their parents participated in the PACOyPACA cross-sectional study. All completed a benefits and barriers questionnaires regarding to adolescents walking to school. Descriptive statistics, paired samples ttest and Wilcoxon test were used to identify differences between adolescents&apos; and their parents&apos; perceived benefits and barriers. Results: 466 adolescents (age: 14.86 +/- 0.51 years old) and 499 parents (age: 48.00 +/- 5.42 years old) entered the study. Results showed that 209 (44.8%) adolescents walked to school, and girls did it significantly less (p &lt; 0.01). Benefits were perceived as significantly more important for parents than for adolescents (p &lt; 0.001) in all cases and regardless of the modes of commuting. As for barriers, adolescents cared significantly more about saving time (p &lt; 0.001), and parents significantly gave more importance to traffic danger and additional planning to walk to school (p &lt; 0.001). When adolescents walked to school, they were significantly more concerned than parents about saving time (p &lt; 0.01), weather and walking being a hassle (p &lt; 0.05), and parents reported traffic as a significantly higher concern than adolescents (p &lt; 0.05). When adolescents commuted to school by motorized transport, they significantly gave more importance than parents to saving time (p = 0.001), and parents reported significantly higher values for additional planning to walk to school (p &lt; 0.001), lack of continuous paths (p &lt; 0.01), distance, weather, and traffic (p &lt; 0.05) than adolescents. Conclusions: Perceived benefits were important for adolescents and parents, regardless of the modes of commuting to school. Adolescents and their parents presented higher concerns when adolescents commuted to school by motorized transport.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30306 - Sport and fitness sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Transport &amp; Health

ISSN

2214-1405

e-ISSN

2214-1413

Volume of the periodical

39

Issue of the periodical within the volume

November

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

1-14

UT code for WoS article

001318559700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85203627920