School travel mode, parenting practices and physical activity among UK Year 5 and 6 children
Background: School travel mode and parenting practices have been associated with children’s physical activity (PA). The current study sought to examine whether PA parenting practices differ by school travel mode and whether school travel mode and PA parenting practices are associated with PA....
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| author | Jago, Russell Wood, Lesley Sebire, Simon Edwards, Mark J. Davies, Ben Banfield, Kathryn Fox, Kenneth Thompson, Janice Cooper, Ashley R. Montgomery, Alan A. |
| author_facet | Jago, Russell Wood, Lesley Sebire, Simon Edwards, Mark J. Davies, Ben Banfield, Kathryn Fox, Kenneth Thompson, Janice Cooper, Ashley R. Montgomery, Alan A. |
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School travel mode and parenting practices have been associated with children’s physical activity (PA). The current study sought to examine whether PA parenting practices differ by school travel mode and whether school travel mode and PA parenting practices are associated with PA.
Methods:
469 children (aged 9-11) wore accelerometers from which mean weekday and after-school (3.30 to 8.30 pm) minutes of moderate-to-vigorous intensity PA (MVPA) and counts per minute (CPM) were derived. Mode of travel to and from school (passive vs. active) and PA parenting practices (maternal and paternal logistic support and modelling behaviour) were child-reported.
Results:
Children engaged in an average of 59.7 minutes of MVPA per weekday. Active travel to school by girls was associated with 5.9 more minutes of MVPA per day compared with those who travelled to school passively (p = 0.004). After-school CPM and MVPA did not differ by school travel mode. There was no evidence that physical activity parenting practices were associated with school travel mode.
Conclusions:
For girls, encouraging active travel to school is likely to be important for overall PA. Further formative research may be warranted to understand how both parental logistic support and active travel decisions are operationalized in families as a means of understanding how to promote increased PA among pre-adolescent children |
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| spelling | nottingham-449122020-05-04T16:46:34Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44912/ School travel mode, parenting practices and physical activity among UK Year 5 and 6 children Jago, Russell Wood, Lesley Sebire, Simon Edwards, Mark J. Davies, Ben Banfield, Kathryn Fox, Kenneth Thompson, Janice Cooper, Ashley R. Montgomery, Alan A. Background: School travel mode and parenting practices have been associated with children’s physical activity (PA). The current study sought to examine whether PA parenting practices differ by school travel mode and whether school travel mode and PA parenting practices are associated with PA. Methods: 469 children (aged 9-11) wore accelerometers from which mean weekday and after-school (3.30 to 8.30 pm) minutes of moderate-to-vigorous intensity PA (MVPA) and counts per minute (CPM) were derived. Mode of travel to and from school (passive vs. active) and PA parenting practices (maternal and paternal logistic support and modelling behaviour) were child-reported. Results: Children engaged in an average of 59.7 minutes of MVPA per weekday. Active travel to school by girls was associated with 5.9 more minutes of MVPA per day compared with those who travelled to school passively (p = 0.004). After-school CPM and MVPA did not differ by school travel mode. There was no evidence that physical activity parenting practices were associated with school travel mode. Conclusions: For girls, encouraging active travel to school is likely to be important for overall PA. Further formative research may be warranted to understand how both parental logistic support and active travel decisions are operationalized in families as a means of understanding how to promote increased PA among pre-adolescent children BioMed Central 2014-04-16 Article PeerReviewed Jago, Russell, Wood, Lesley, Sebire, Simon, Edwards, Mark J., Davies, Ben, Banfield, Kathryn, Fox, Kenneth, Thompson, Janice, Cooper, Ashley R. and Montgomery, Alan A. (2014) School travel mode, parenting practices and physical activity among UK Year 5 and 6 children. BMC Public Health, 14 . 370/1-370/10. ISSN 1471-2458 Physical activity Travel Parenting Children Adolescents https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-14-370 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-370. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-370. |
| spellingShingle | Physical activity Travel Parenting Children Adolescents Jago, Russell Wood, Lesley Sebire, Simon Edwards, Mark J. Davies, Ben Banfield, Kathryn Fox, Kenneth Thompson, Janice Cooper, Ashley R. Montgomery, Alan A. School travel mode, parenting practices and physical activity among UK Year 5 and 6 children |
| title | School travel mode, parenting practices and
physical activity among UK Year 5 and 6 children |
| title_full | School travel mode, parenting practices and
physical activity among UK Year 5 and 6 children |
| title_fullStr | School travel mode, parenting practices and
physical activity among UK Year 5 and 6 children |
| title_full_unstemmed | School travel mode, parenting practices and
physical activity among UK Year 5 and 6 children |
| title_short | School travel mode, parenting practices and
physical activity among UK Year 5 and 6 children |
| title_sort | school travel mode, parenting practices and
physical activity among uk year 5 and 6 children |
| topic | Physical activity Travel Parenting Children Adolescents |
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