ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health2007
Promoting walking to school: results of a quasi-experimental trial.
Article in Journal of epidemiology and community health, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Do Interventions to Increase Walking Work? A Systematic Review of Interventions in Children and Adolescents.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2016Pooled it
- A systematic review of interventions for promoting active transportation to school.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2011Pooled it
- Organisational travel plans for improving health.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2010Pooled it
- Effectiveness of the Walking in ScHools (WISH) Study, a peer-led walking intervention for adolescent girls: results of a cluster randomised controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Trial
- The walking school bus and children's physical activity: a pilot cluster randomized controlled trial.Pediatrics · 2011Trial
- Systematic Review of Active Travel to School Surveillance in the United States and Canada.Journal of healthy eating and active living · 2023Article
- Impact of an Australian state-wide active travel campaign targeting primary schools.Preventive medicine reports · 2019Article
- Transtheoretical Model of Change during Travel Behavior Interventions: An Integrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Review
- Examining the impact of the walking school bus with an agent-based model.American journal of public health · 2014Article
- The contribution of school breaks to the all-day physical activity of 9- and 10-year-old overweight and non-overweight children.International journal of public health · 2012Article
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- Impact of a pilot walking school bus intervention on children's pedestrian safety behaviors: a pilot study.Health & place · 2012Article
- The Strathclyde Evaluation of Children's Active Travel (SE-CAT): study rationale and methods.BMC public health · 2011Article
- An applied ecological framework for evaluating infrastructure to promote walking and cycling: the iConnect study.American journal of public health · 2011Article
- Validity of instruments to assess students' travel and pedestrian safety.BMC public health · 2010Article
- Pilot evaluation of a walking school bus program in a low-income, urban community.BMC public health · 2009Article
- Specific Strategies for Promotion of Physical Activity in Kids-Which Ones Work? A Systematic Review of the Literature.American journal of lifestyle medicineReview
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Abstract
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objectiveTo assess the impact of a combined intervention on children's travel behaviour, stage of behavioural change and motivations for and barriers to actively commuting to school.
designA quasi-experimental trial involving pre- and post-intervention mapping of routes to school by active and inactive mode of travel and surveys of "stage of behaviour change" and motivations for and barriers to actively commuting to school.
interventionThe intervention school participated in a school-based active travel project for one school term. Active travel was integrated into the curriculum and participants used interactive travel-planning resources at home. The control school participated in before and after measurements but did not receive the intervention.
settingTwo primary schools in Scotland with similar socioeconomic and demographic profiles.
participantsTwo classes of primary 5 children and their families and teachers. MAIN
resultsPost intervention, the mean distance travelled to school by walking by intervention children increased significantly from baseline, from 198 to 772 m (389% increase). In the control group mean distance walked increased from 242 to 285 m (17% increase). The difference between the schools was significant (t (38) = -4.679, p<0.001 (95% confidence interval -315 to -795 m)). Post intervention, the mean distance travelled to school by car by intervention children reduced significantly from baseline, from 2018 to 933 m (57.5% reduction). The mean distance travelled to school by car by control children increased from baseline, from 933 to 947 m (1.5% increase). The difference in the change between schools was significant (t (32) = 4.282, p<0.001 (95% confidence interval 445 to 1255 m)).
conclusionsIntervention was effective in achieving an increase in the mean distance travelled by active mode and a reduction in the mean distance travelled by inactive mode on school journey.
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