Effects of a cycling intervention on adolescents cycling skills

Hoef, Tom van; Kerr, Sonja; Roth, Ralf; Brenni, Claudio; Endes, Katharina

doi:10.1016/j.jth.2022.101345

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“…Limited research conducted in adolescents showed that both adolescents (Colwell & Culverwell, 2002;Mandic et al, 2016) and their parents believed that CST could improve adolescents' safety when cycling in traffic. A recent study showed that 90-min CST improved cycling skills in adolescents (van Hoef, Kerr, Roth, Brenni, & Endes, 2022). In adolescent girls, a short duration CST improved participants' knowledge of road rules and their confidence to cycle in different environments but did not increase their confidence to cycle to school or improve rates of cycling to school .…”

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Adolescents’ perceptions of long-term effects of cycle skills training

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Cycling to school is uncommon among adolescents in most developed countries. Development of cycling skills through cycle skills training (CST) can reduce cycling-related safety concerns. This study examined long-term effects of CST retrospectively by comparing adolescents’ perceptions of cycling to school and their confidence to cycle to school among those who participated in CST in primary and/or intermediate school with non-participants. Adolescents (n=1,260; 51% female; 12 schools) from Dunedin (New Zealand) completed an online survey at school. Adolescents self-reported transport modes to school, perceptions of cycling to school and CST, and previous participation in and perceived benefits of school-based CST programmes. Only 1-2% adolescents usually cycled to school. Overall, 42% agreed CST would make them safer in traffic (no significant difference between CST participants (n=512) and non-participants (n=748)). Among CST participants, 32% reported that CST increased their confidence to cycle to school and those adolescents had more favourable attitudes towards CST than participants who reported no effects. In a multivariable analysis, adolescents’ perceptions that CST increased their cycling confidence were positively associated with self-efficacy for cycling to school (odds ratio (OR) (95% confidence interval (CI)): 1.33 (1.07, 1.67)), perceived school support (1.51 (1.01, 2.25)), parental cycling-related safety concerns (1.84 (1.25, 2.69)) and being Māori (6.47 (2.36, 17.7)) or other ethnic origins (2.26 (1.00, 5.10); reference: New Zealand Europeans). Therefore, CST could be a useful strategy to support adolescents’ cycling to school, ideally (as suggested in the literature) in combination with appropriate infrastructure changes and speed management measures.

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confidence: 97%