ArticleBMC public health2013
Parental physical activity, safety perceptions and children's independent mobility.
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- Challenges and facilitators to parent-child shared physical interventions during preschool and school age education: a systematic review and meta synthesis.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Social-Ecological Correlates of Children's Independent Mobility: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
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- Children's outdoor active mobility behaviour and neighbourhood safety: a systematic review in measurement methods and future research directions.International journal of health geographics · 2021Pooled it
- Social and physical environmental correlates of independent mobility in children: a systematic review taking sex/gender differences into account.International journal of health geographics · 2018Pooled it
- [In defense of walking and cycling as a means of transportation in Brazil].Cadernos de saude publica · 2025Article
- Parent's sociodemographic factors, physical activity and active commuting are predictors of independent mobility to school.International journal of health geographics · 2021Article
- Children's Active School Travel: Examining the Combined Perceived and Objective Built-Environment Factors from Space Syntax.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Relationships between area-level socioeconomic status and urbanization with active transportation, independent mobility, outdoor time, and physical activity among Canadian children.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Children's Transport Built Environments: A Mixed Methods Study of Associations between Perceived and Objective Measures and Relationships with Parent Licence for Independent Mobility in Auckland, New Zealand.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Parents' Willingness and Perception of Children's Autonomy as Predictors of Greater Independent Mobility to School.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Perceived neighborhood safety related to physical activity but not recreational screen-based sedentary behavior in adolescents.BMC public health · 2017Article
- Parental Perception of Neighborhood Safety and Children's Physical Activity.Journal of physical activity & health · 2016Article
- Parental and Adolescent Perceptions of Neighborhood Safety Related to Adolescents' Physical Activity in Their Neighborhood.Research quarterly for exercise and sport · 2016Article
- Individual, family, and neighborhood correlates of independent mobility among 7 to 11-year-olds.Preventive medicine reports · 2016Article
- Parental Influences and the Relationship to their Children's Physical Activity Levels.International journal of exercise scienceArticle
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Abstract
backgroundParents are likely to be a basic influence on their children's behavior. There is an absence of information about the associations between parents' physical activity and perception of neighborhood environment with children's independent mobility.The purpose of this study is to examine the contribution of parental physical activity and perception of neighborhood safety to children's independent mobility.
methodsIn this cross-sectional study of 354 pupils and their parents, independent mobility, perceptions of neighborhood safety and physical activity were evaluated by questionnaire. Categorical principal components analyses were used to determine the underlying dimensions of both independent mobility and perceptions of neighborhood safety items.
resultsThe strongest predictor of independent mobility was the parental perception of sidewalk and street safety (beta = 0.132). Parent's physical activity was also a significant predictor. The final model accounted for 13.0% of the variance.
conclusionsParental perception of neighborhood safety and parents' self reported physical activity might be associated with children's independent mobility. Further research in this topic is needed to explore this possible association.
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