Mertens L, Compernolle S, Gheysen F, Deforche B, Brug J, Mackenbach J D, Lakerveld J, Oppert J-M, Feuillet T, Glonti K, Bárdos H, De Bourdeaudhuij I
Department of Movement and Sport Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Obes Rev. 2016 Jan;17 Suppl 1:53-61. doi: 10.1111/obr.12379.
Regular cycling for transport is an important potential contributor to daily physical activity among adults. Characteristics of the physical environment are likely to influence cycling for transport. The current study investigated associations between perceived physical environmental neighbourhood factors and adults' cycling for transport across five urban regions across Europe, and whether such associations were moderated by age, gender, education and urban region. A total of 4,612 adults from five European regions provided information about their transport-related cycling and their neighbourhood physical environmental perceptions in an online survey. Hurdle models adjusted for the clustering within neighbourhoods were performed to estimate associations between perceived physical environmental neighbourhood factors and odds of engaging in cycling for transport and minutes of cycling for transport per week. Inhabitants of neighbourhoods that were perceived to be polluted, having better street connectivity, having lower traffic speed levels and being less pleasant to walk or cycle in had higher levels of cycling for transport. Moderation analyses revealed only one interaction effect by gender. This study indicates that cycling for transport is associated with a number of perceived physical environmental neighbourhood factors across five urban regions across Europe. Our results indicated that the majority of the outcomes identified were valid for all subgroups of age, gender, education and across regions in the countries included in the study.
日常骑车出行是成年人日常身体活动的一个重要潜在因素。物理环境的特征可能会影响骑车出行。本研究调查了欧洲五个城市地区成年人对邻里物理环境因素的认知与骑车出行之间的关联，以及这些关联是否会受到年龄、性别、教育程度和城市地区的影响。来自欧洲五个地区的4612名成年人在一项在线调查中提供了与交通相关的骑车情况以及他们对邻里物理环境的认知信息。采用考虑了邻里内部聚类效应的障碍模型来估计对邻里物理环境因素的认知与骑车出行概率以及每周骑车出行分钟数之间的关联。那些认为所在社区受到污染、街道连通性更好、交通速度较低、步行或骑车不太舒适的居民，其骑车出行的水平更高。调节分析仅揭示了一个性别交互效应。本研究表明，在欧洲五个城市地区，骑车出行与对邻里物理环境的一些认知因素有关。我们的结果表明，所确定的大多数结果在年龄、性别、教育程度的所有亚组以及研究中所涵盖国家的各个地区都是有效的。
