TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Children walking to school: parent perceptions of environmental and psychosocial influences
JO  - Australian occupational therapy journal
A1  - Ziviani, Jenny
A1  - Kopeshke, Raymond
A1  - Wadley, David
SP  - 27
EP  - 34
VL  - 53
IS  - 1
N2  - Background and Aims: Children's declining physical activity has attracted attention from those concerned with the health and well-being of the young. The present study aims to determine if the extent of walking to and from a school with an active participation program differed from that in another school without a program. <br><br>METHOD and Results: Data from 21 parents of Grade 7 children from School A, sourced from a previous study, were compared with data from parents of Grade 7 children in School B, collected using the same questionnaire. No significant difference in the mean number of days walked to (t= 0.098, P= 0.92) or from school (t= 0.251, P= 0.80) was identified. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: This small-scale project suggests that a mélange of variables has the potential to influence children's incidental activity levels.    KW: SR2S<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0045-0766
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1630.2006.00537.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -