Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, 014 Williams Administration Building, College Station, TX 77843-3137, USA.
Ann Behav Med. 2013 Feb;45 Suppl 1:S55-67. doi: 10.1007/s12160-012-9432-z.
Long distance is a leading environmental barrier to walking to school and requires long-term, multilevel interventions. Meanwhile, childhood obesity remains highly prevalent, calling for more immediate solutions.
The purpose of this study was to examine attitudinal and environmental correlates of walking to the elementary school, controlling for distance.
Using parental survey data, 601 child pairs with matched home locations and different school travel modes (walking vs. private automobile) were examined, using conditional logistic regressions.
Despite the same/similar objectively measured distance and home location, perceptions of distance, sidewalk and traffic conditions, park presence, and convenience of walking differed between walkers and automobile users. Parental attitudes and children's preferences were associated with the odds of walking. Safety concerns (traffic danger, stranger danger, and getting lost) were higher among drivers, but only significant in bivariate analyses.
To promote walking to school, route/street improvements appear promising, but parallel educational and promotional efforts may be needed to address perceptual and attitudinal barriers.
长途是阻碍步行上学的主要环境因素，需要长期的、多层次的干预。同时，儿童肥胖仍然高度流行，需要更直接的解决方案。
本研究的目的是检验与步行上小学相关的态度和环境因素，控制距离因素。
使用父母调查数据，对 601 对具有匹配家庭住址和不同上学交通方式（步行与私人汽车）的儿童对进行了检查，使用条件逻辑回归。
尽管实际距离和家庭住址相同/相似，但步行者和汽车使用者对距离、人行道和交通状况、公园存在以及步行便利性的看法存在差异。父母的态度和孩子的喜好与步行的可能性有关。司机的安全顾虑（交通危险、陌生人危险和迷路）更高，但仅在单变量分析中具有显著性。
为了促进步行上学，路线/街道改善似乎很有前景，但可能需要并行的教育和宣传工作来解决感知和态度方面的障碍。
