Merom Dafna, Rissel Chris, Mahmic Ajsa, Bauman Adrian
NSW Centre for Physical Activity and Health, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales.
Health Promot J Austr. 2005 Aug;16(2):100-6. doi: 10.1071/he05100.
Concerns about the contribution of lower physical activity by children on levels of childhood obesity have driven the search for interventions that encourage lifestyle physical activity by school-aged children.
This paper describes the evaluation of the New South Wales (NSW) Walk Safely To School Day (WSTSD), an event repeated annually on the first Friday in April from 2001 to 2004. Paid media advertising before the event promoted WSTSD. All primary schools in NSW were invited to participate. The evaluation included monitoring of schools registering to participate over four years, and in 2002 evaluation feedback from schools as well as a population-based telephone survey of randomly selected parents of primary school-aged children.
By 2004, 53% of all primary schools in NSW had participated at least once in WSTSD and 15% had participated for at least three years. Participating schools linked WSTSD to road safety curricula, and 59% of schools also talked about WSTSD at school assemblies, but few (7%) organised walking-related activities. Parents reported that one-quarter (24%) of NSW primary school-aged students participated in WSTSD activities, including an additional 31% more children walking to school on WSTSD than would normally walk on a Friday.
Walk Safely To School Day resulted in a moderate short-term change in walking behaviour. High levels of in-principle support from parents indicate that greater participation in walking to school is possible, but will require stronger interventions to overcome the barriers identified by parents and to maintain changes.
儿童身体活动水平较低对儿童肥胖程度的影响引发了人们对鼓励学龄儿童进行生活方式体育活动的干预措施的探索。
本文描述了对新南威尔士州（NSW）“安全步行上学日”（WSTSD）的评估，该活动于2001年至2004年每年4月的第一个星期五举行。活动前通过付费媒体广告宣传WSTSD。新南威尔士州的所有小学都被邀请参加。评估包括监测四年来注册参加的学校，以及在2002年收集学校的评估反馈以及对随机抽取的小学适龄儿童家长进行的基于人群的电话调查。
到2004年，新南威尔士州53%的小学至少参加过一次WSTSD，15%的学校参加了至少三年。参与的学校将WSTSD与道路安全课程联系起来，59%的学校也在学校集会上谈论过WSTSD，但很少有学校（7%）组织与步行相关的活动。家长报告说，新南威尔士州四分之一（24%）的小学适龄学生参加了WSTSD活动，包括在WSTSD当天步行上学的儿童比平时周五步行上学的儿童多出31%。
“安全步行上学日”导致步行行为有适度的短期变化。家长在原则上的高度支持表明，更多儿童参与步行上学是有可能的，但需要更强有力的干预措施来克服家长所指出的障碍并维持这些变化。
