ArticleAmerican journal of preventive medicine2013
Neighborhood perceptions and active school commuting in low-income cities.
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- Associations between parental perceptions of neighbourhood environment and physical activity in children and adolescents: a systematic review including 149 studies.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Pooled it
- Parental barriers to active transport to school: a systematic review.International journal of public health · 2020Pooled it
- Cross-continental comparison of the association between the physical environment and active transportation in children: a systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2015Pooled it
- Associations Between the Multidimensional Body Image Constructs and Self-Rated Health among African American Adults in the Southeastern United States: A Preliminary Study.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
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- Active commuting to school: A longitudinal analysis examining persistence of behavior over time in four New Jersey cities.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
- 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
- School Walkability Index: Application of Environmental Audit Tool and GIS.Journal of transport & health · 2020Article
- Active School Transport among Children from Canada, Colombia, Finland, South Africa, and the United States: A Tale of Two Journeys.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- The neighborhood social environment and physical activity: a systematic scoping review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2019Article
- Associations of socio-demographic, perceived environmental, social and psychological factors with active travel in Hong Kong adolescents: the iHealt(H) cross-sectional study.Journal of transport & health · 2019Article
- An Examination of Demographic and Psychosocial Factors, Barriers to Healthy Eating, and Diet Quality Among African American Adults.Nutrients · 2019Article
- "Because at school, you can become somebody" - The perceived health and economic returns on secondary schooling in rural Burkina Faso.PloS one · 2019Article
- Failure to meet aerobic fitness standards among urban elementary students.Preventive medicine reports · 2018Article
- Fitness, Fatness and Active School Commuting among Liverpool Schoolchildren.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Article
- Playability: Built and Social Environment Features That Promote Physical Activity Within Children.Current obesity reports · 2015Review
- A cross-sectional study of demographic, environmental and parental barriers to active school travel among children in the United States.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2014Article
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backgroundFew children accumulate the recommended ≥60 minutes of physical activity each day. Active travel to and from school (ATS) is a potential source of increased activity for children, accounting for 22% of total trips and time spent traveling by school-aged children. PURPOSE: This study identifies the association of parents' perceptions of the neighborhood, geospatial variables, and demographic characteristics with ATS among students in four low-income, densely populated urban communities with predominantly minority populations.
methodsData were collected in 2009-2010 from households with school-attending children in four low-income New Jersey cities. Multivariate logistic regression analyses (n=765) identified predictors of ATS. Analyses were conducted in 2012.
resultsIn all, 54% of students actively commuted to school. Students whose parents perceived the neighborhood as very unpleasant for activity were less likely (OR=0.39) to actively commute, as were students living farther from school, with a 6% reduction in ATS for every 0.10 mile increase in distance to school. Perceptions of crime, traffic, and sidewalk conditions were not predictors of ATS.
conclusionsParents' perceptions of the pleasantness of the neighborhood, independent of the effects of distance from school, may outweigh concerns about crime, traffic, or conditions of sidewalks in predicting active commuting to school in the low-income urban communities studied. Efforts such as cleaning up graffiti, taking care of abandoned buildings, and providing shade trees to improve neighborhood environments are likely to increase ATS, as are efforts that encourage locating schools closer to the populations they serve.
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