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The Safe Routes to Schools program promotes walking to school. A quasi-experimental trial carried out to promote walking to school among school children aged nine (9) years old at two primary schools in Dunbartonshire, Scotland is described in this annotation. It aims to assess the impact of a combined intervention on children’s travel behaviour, stage of behavioural change and motivations for and barriers to actively commuting to school. Methods: quasi-experimental trial. Results: 71% of intervention group progressed to a higher stage of change behaviour change relating to active commuting or remained in the action and maintenance stages; primary outcomes: mean distance travelled to school by walking, and mean distance travelled to school by car. Implications: Intervention was effective in achieving an increase in the mean distance travelled by active mode and a reduction in the mean distance travelled by inactive mode on school journey.
The study links to the systematic review evidence provided in the following article: David Ogilvie, Charles E Foster, Helen Rothnie, Nick Cavill, Val Hamilton, Claire F Fitzsimons, Nanette Mutrie, on behalf of the Scottish Physical Activity Research Collaboration (SPARColl). Interventions to promote walking: systematic review. BMJ 2007;334 (7605):1204-1213.
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