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Parental physical activity, safety perceptions and children’s independent mobility

BACKGROUND: Parents 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...

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Autores principales: Santos, Maria Paula, Pizarro, Andreia N, Mota, Jorge, Marques, Elisa A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3686676/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23767778
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-584
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author Santos, Maria Paula
Pizarro, Andreia N
Mota, Jorge
Marques, Elisa A
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description BACKGROUND: Parents 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. METHODS: In 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. RESULTS: The strongest predictor of independent mobility was the parental perception of sidewalk and street safety (ß = 0.132). Parent’s physical activity was also a significant predictor. The final model accounted for 13.0% of the variance. CONCLUSIONS: Parental 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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spelling pubmed-36866762013-06-20 Parental physical activity, safety perceptions and children’s independent mobility Santos, Maria Paula Pizarro, Andreia N Mota, Jorge Marques, Elisa A BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Parents 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. METHODS: In 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. RESULTS: The strongest predictor of independent mobility was the parental perception of sidewalk and street safety (ß = 0.132). Parent’s physical activity was also a significant predictor. The final model accounted for 13.0% of the variance. CONCLUSIONS: Parental 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. BioMed Central 2013-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3686676/ /pubmed/23767778 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-584 Text en Copyright © 2013 Santos et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3686676/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23767778
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-584
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