TY - JOUR
T1 - Parents’ perceived barriers to active commuting to school. Comparative study between Spanish and Ecuadorian cities
AU - Hermida, Carla
AU - Chillón, Palma
AU - Andrade, Jorge
AU - Barranco-Ruiz, Yaira
AU - Campos-Garzón, Pablo
AU - Palma-Leal, Ximena
AU - Quezada, Adriana
AU - Villa-González, Emilio
AU - Orellana, Daniel
AU - Huertas-Delgado, Javier
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Sustainable mobility
KW - family
KW - perceptions
KW - safety
KW - schools
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85194870239
U2 - 10.1080/09603123.2024.2358478
DO - 10.1080/09603123.2024.2358478
M3 - Artículo
C2 - 38817088
AN - SCOPUS:85194870239
SN - 0960-3123
VL - 35
SP - 398
EP - 409
JO - International Journal of Environmental Health Research
JF - International Journal of Environmental Health Research
IS - 2
ER -
