Parents’ perceived barriers to active commuting to school.: Comparative study between Spanish and Ecuadorian cities

Carla Marcela Hermida Palacios; Palma Chillón; Jorge Andrade; Yaira Barranco Ruiz; Pablo Campos Garzón; Ximena Palma Leal; Adriana Eulalia Quezada Larriva; Emilio Villa González; Daniel Augusto Orellana Vintimilla; Javier Huertas Delgado; Carla Marcela  Hermida Palacios

doi:10.1080/09603123.2024.2358478

Parents’ perceived barriers to active commuting to school. Comparative study between Spanish and Ecuadorian cities

Carla Marcela Hermida Palacios (First Author)
, Palma Chillón
, Jorge Andrade
, Yaira Barranco Ruiz
, Pablo Campos Garzón
, Ximena Palma Leal
, Adriana Eulalia Quezada Larriva
, Emilio Villa González
, Daniel Augusto Orellana Vintimilla
, Javier Huertas Delgado (Last Author)
, Carla Marcela Hermida Palacios (Corresponding Author)

Grupo de Investigación: Ciudades Sustentables (LlactaLAB)

Universidad del Azuay
University of Granada
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo Universidad de Cuenca

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Abstract

Parents´ perceptions can influence their children´s mode of commuting to school. In this sense, the purposes of this study were to compare parental barriers towards active commuting to school (ACS) between Ecuadorian and Spanish children, and to analyze the associations between those barriers and the children’s mode of commuting. Descriptive and comparative analyses were performed using Chi-square and T-student test. Associations were analyzed by several logistic regression models. Results showed that road safety is the main barrier for ACS, and that all the barriers are perceived as higher by Ecuadorian parents (p<0.001). It was also found that Ecuadorian children were less likely to be active when parents perceive greater total barriers (OR=0.15, CI=0.06, 0.40). Public policies should focus on reducing the parental barriers in order to increase ACS, specifically those related to road safety.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	398-409
Number of pages	12
Journal	International Journal of Environmental Health Research
Volume	35
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09603123.2024.2358478
State	Published - 2024

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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

Sustainable mobility
family
perceptions
safety
schools

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Hermida Palacios, C. M., Chillón, P., Andrade, J., Barranco Ruiz, Y., Campos Garzón, P., Palma Leal, X., Quezada Larriva, A. E., Villa González, E., Orellana Vintimilla, D. A., Huertas Delgado, J., & Hermida Palacios, C. M. (2024). Parents’ perceived barriers to active commuting to school. Comparative study between Spanish and Ecuadorian cities. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 35(2), 398-409. https://doi.org/10.1080/09603123.2024.2358478

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