A longitudinal study of the distance that young people walk to school

Walking or cycling to school has been associated with important health benefits. Distance between home and school is the main correlate of active commuting to school, but how far children walk to school and how this changes as children age is unknown. Mode of commuting and objectively-assessed dista...

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Autores principales: Chillón, P., Panter, J., Corder, K., Jones, A.P., Van Sluijs, E.M.F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4315806/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25528343
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.10.013
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Corder, K.
Jones, A.P.
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description Walking or cycling to school has been associated with important health benefits. Distance between home and school is the main correlate of active commuting to school, but how far children walk to school and how this changes as children age is unknown. Mode of commuting and objectively-assessed distance to school were measured at 3 time points: aged 9/10 years, 10/11 years and 13/14 years. Data were analysed using ROC-curve analyses. With age, children walked further to school; the threshold distance that best discriminated walkers from passive commuters was 1421 m in 10-year-olds, 1627 m in 11-year-olds and 3046 m in 14-year-olds. Future interventions should consider the distance that young people actually walk.
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spelling pubmed-43158062015-02-14 A longitudinal study of the distance that young people walk to school Chillón, P. Panter, J. Corder, K. Jones, A.P. Van Sluijs, E.M.F. Health Place Short Report Walking or cycling to school has been associated with important health benefits. Distance between home and school is the main correlate of active commuting to school, but how far children walk to school and how this changes as children age is unknown. Mode of commuting and objectively-assessed distance to school were measured at 3 time points: aged 9/10 years, 10/11 years and 13/14 years. Data were analysed using ROC-curve analyses. With age, children walked further to school; the threshold distance that best discriminated walkers from passive commuters was 1421 m in 10-year-olds, 1627 m in 11-year-olds and 3046 m in 14-year-olds. Future interventions should consider the distance that young people actually walk. Elsevier 2015-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4315806/ /pubmed/25528343 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.10.013 Text en © 2014 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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