Prevalence and Correlates of Walking and Biking to School Among Adolescents
Prevalence and Correlates of Walking and Biking to School Among Adolescents
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DOI：
10.1007/s10900-008-9135-3
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发表时间：
2009-04-01
影响因子：
5.9
通讯作者：
Gast, Julie
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作者：
Bungum, Timothy J.;Lounsbery, Monica;Gast, Julie
增加青少年步行和骑自行车上学的比率，也被称为主动上学交通工具(ATS)，可能会增加该年龄段的体力活动(PA)水平。此类活动已被确定为PA错失的机会。据目前估计，15%的美国年轻人步行或骑自行车上学。这些ATS的比率低于欧洲和亚洲青年。提高非机动车上学交通水平的努力可能有助于降低美国年轻人的肥胖率，减少交通拥堵，并减少温室气体排放。目的是确定ATS的人口、环境和心理社会预测因素。2692名学生完成了一份30份问卷。Logistic回归用于确定ATS的心理社会、人口统计学和环境预测因素。只有4.6%的学生使用ATS。ATS的预测因素是街道连接性(街道交叉口的密度)和性别(男孩的ATS发生率较高)。公共卫生官员应该警惕为新学校选址的机会，这些学校位于街道系统连接良好的社区。促进安非他明类兴奋剂的干预措施将需要针对男性和女性学生，而且似乎有机会提高学生骑自行车上学的比率。
Increasing the rates that our adolescents walk and bicycle to school, also called active transport to school (ATS), could increase the physical activity (PA) levels of that age group. This type of activity has been identified as a missed opportunity for PA. It is currently estimated that 15% of American youth walk or bicycle to school. These rates of ATS are lower than those of European and Asian youth. Efforts to enhance levels of non-motorized transport to school could aid in reducing obesity rates among American youth, decrease traffic congestion and attenuate emission of greenhouse gasses. The objective was to identify demographic, environmental and psychosocial predictors of ATS. A 30-questionnaire was completed by 2,692 students. Logistic regression was used to identify psychosocial, demographic and environmental predictors of ATS. Only 4.6% of students used ATS. Predictors of ATS were street connectedness (density of street intersections) and gender, (boys had higher ATS rates). Public health officials should be alert for opportunities to select sites for new schools that are in neighborhoods with well connected street systems. Interventions promoting ATS will need to target male and female students and there appears to be an opportunity to increase rates that students bicycle to school.