Hermida Carla, Chillón Palma, Andrade Jorge, Barranco-Ruiz Yaira, Campos-Garzón Pablo, Palma-Leal Ximena, Quezada Adriana, Villa-González Emilio, Orellana Daniel, Huertas-Delgado Javier
Laboratorio de Movilidad Urbana, Universidad del Azuay, Cuenca, Ecuador.
Department of Physical Education and Sports, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Sport and Health University Research Institute (IMUDS), University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
Int J Environ Health Res. 2025 Feb;35(2):398-409. doi: 10.1080/09603123.2024.2358478. Epub 2024 May 30.
Parents´ perceptions can influence their children´s mode of commuting to school. In this sense, the purposes of this study were to compare parental barriers towards active commuting to school (ACS) between Ecuadorian and Spanish children, and to analyze the associations between those barriers and the children's mode of commuting. Descriptive and comparative analyses were performed using Chi-square and T-student test. Associations were analyzed by several logistic regression models. Results showed that road safety is the main barrier for ACS, and that all the barriers are perceived as higher by Ecuadorian parents (p<0.001). It was also found that Ecuadorian children were less likely to be active when parents perceive greater total barriers (OR=0.15, CI=0.06, 0.40). Public policies should focus on reducing the parental barriers in order to increase ACS, specifically those related to road safety.
父母的认知会影响孩子上学的通勤方式。从这个意义上说,本研究的目的是比较厄瓜多尔和西班牙儿童的父母在积极步行或骑自行车上学(ACS)方面存在的障碍,并分析这些障碍与孩子通勤方式之间的关联。使用卡方检验和t检验进行描述性和比较性分析。通过几个逻辑回归模型分析关联。结果表明,道路安全是积极步行或骑自行车上学的主要障碍,并且厄瓜多尔父母认为所有障碍都更高(p<0.001)。研究还发现,当父母认为总体障碍更大时,厄瓜多尔儿童选择积极方式上学的可能性较小(OR=0.15,CI=0.06,0.40)。公共政策应侧重于减少父母的障碍,以增加积极步行或骑自行车上学的比例,特别是与道路安全相关的障碍。