Chairassamee Nattanicha, Chancharoenchai Kanokwan, Saraithong Wuthiya
Department of Economics, Kasetsart University, Chatuchak, Bangkok, Thailand.
PLoS One. 2024 Dec 6;19(12):e0314687. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0314687. eCollection 2024.
This study investigates the impact on Thai students' health of commuting to school, both in terms of time and distance. The individual-level dataset used in this study is obtained from the National Statistical Office (NSO) and limited to students aged from 9 to 18 years old, with 25,461 respondents. While the data were collected in 2016, with mostly unchanged commuting behaviors of Thai students, our results can reflect current health impacts from school commutes. The data indicate that traffic in Bangkok causes students to commute longer to schools than in other provinces. The results from the ordered logistic regression consistently show that commuting time has stronger negative impacts on health than commuting distance does. In other provinces, our results show that long commuting time and distance negatively affect physical and mental health of students. The present study also indicates that investigating either commuting distance or commuting time could bias the results in some sequences.
本研究从时间和距离两方面调查了上学通勤对泰国学生健康的影响。本研究使用的个人层面数据集来自国家统计局（NSO），且仅限于9至18岁的学生，共有25461名受访者。虽然数据是在2016年收集的，泰国学生的通勤行为大多未变，但我们的结果能够反映当前上学通勤对健康的影响。数据表明，曼谷的交通状况导致学生上学通勤时间比其他省份更长。有序逻辑回归的结果一致表明，通勤时间对健康的负面影响比通勤距离更强。在其他省份，我们的结果表明，较长的通勤时间和距离会对学生的身心健康产生负面影响。本研究还表明，仅调查通勤距离或通勤时间在某些情况下可能会使结果产生偏差。
