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Children walking to school: Parent perceptions of environmental and psychosocial influences
Author(s) -
Ziviani Jenny,
Kopeshke Raymond,
Wadley David
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
australian occupational therapy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.595
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1440-1630
pISSN - 0045-0766
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1630.2006.00537.x
Subject(s) - psychosocial , perception , psychology , scale (ratio) , significant difference , physical activity , developmental psychology , medicine , clinical psychology , physical therapy , geography , psychiatry , neuroscience , cartography
Background and Aims: Children's declining physical activity has attracted attention from those concerned with the health and well‐being of the young. The present study aims to determine if the extent of walking to and from a school with an active participation program differed from that in another school without a program.Method and Results: Data from 21 parents of Grade 7 children from School A, sourced from a previous study, were compared with data from parents of Grade 7 children in School B, collected using the same questionnaire. No significant difference in the mean number of days walked to ( t = 0.098, P = 0.92) or from school ( t = 0.251, P = 0.80) was identified. Conclusions: This small‐scale project suggests that a mélange of variables has the potential to influence children's incidental activity levels.