School physical activity policies and active transport to school among pupils in the Czech Republic

Hollein, Tomáš; Vašíčková, Jana; Bucksch, Jens; Kalman, Michal; Sigmundová, Dagmar; Dijk, Jitse P. van

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“…The school active transport policy showed a positive association with students’ participation in active travel to/from school, although the actual contributions of school active travel to overall PA among Thai children is unknown. Nonetheless, the relationship identified in our study was consistent with a previous Czech Republic study [ 21 ], where students made active travel more frequently when their schools had a policy promoting walking and cycling to/from school. The school active transport policy in Thailand, like many other countries, is not mandated by any government authorities.…”

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“…The school active transport policy in Thailand, like many other countries, is not mandated by any government authorities. This policy is usually developed at the school level through the school executive board and any policies developed from schools’ own interests might reflect a strong commitment to its implementation, and potentially the alignment of necessary resources required to achieve the desirable outcome behavior [ 20 , 21 ]. Unfortunately, details of the development, specific strategies and implementation of school active transport policies were not gathered as part of this study.…”

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School policies and practices associated with Thai children’s overall and domain specific physical activity

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School has a significant role in providing opportunities for children to engage in physical activity (PA) through policies and practices. This study aimed to identify the prevalence of school policies and practices related to physical activity (PA) and their association with Thai students’ overall and domain specific PA. This cross-sectional analysis included 5,830 students aged 6–17 years from 136 schools recruited though a multi-stage stratified cluster sampling across Thailand. Student’s PA data were assessed using a student survey and school data were collected by a principal survey. Associations between students’ PA and school variables were examined using logistic regressions. Despite a high prevalence of Thai schools reporting many policies and practices promoting PA in different areas, students reported low levels of PA. None of the school PA policies and practices was associated with students’ overall and domain specific activities, with active transport as the one exception. When schools had an active transport policy, students were 40% (OR = 1.40, p = 0.01) more likely to travel actively to/from school. The identified positive relationship between school active transport policy and students’ active travel behavior suggests a potential wider adoption of the policy promoting school active transport aiming to increase student’s PA levels among all Thai schools. Intervention studies are necessary to confirm this finding. Our study also reflected that, for greater levels of children’s school-based PA, strategies to translate the existing school PA policies into effective implementation should be an emphasis for Thai schools.

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“…Furthermore, the studies are limited to data from individual countries preventing reliable cross-national comparisons. More recently, policy initiatives and national programs to promote active school commuting have been initiated in many countries [ 3 , 6 , 31 , 32 , 33 ], which may have affected schoolchildren’s travel behaviours.…”

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12-Year Trends in Active School Transport across Four European Countries—Findings from the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) Study

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Active school transport (AST) is a source of daily physical activity uptake. However, AST seems to have decreased worldwide over recent decades. We aimed to examine recent trends in AST and associations with gender, age, family affluence, and time to school, using data from the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) study collected in 2006, 2010, 2014, and 2018 in the Czech Republic, Norway, Scotland, and Wales. Data from 88,212 students (11, 13 and 15 years old) revealed stable patterns of AST from 2006 to 2018, apart from a decrease in the Czech Republic between 2006 and 2010. For survey waves combined, walking to and from school was most common in the Czech Republic (55%) and least common in Wales (30%). Cycling was only common in Norway (22%). AST differed by gender (Scotland and Wales), by age (Norway), and by family affluence (everywhere but Norway). In the Czech Republic, family affluence was associated with change over time in AST, and the effect of travel time on AST was stronger. The findings indicate that the decrease in AST could be levelling off in the countries considered here. Differential associations with sociodemographic factors and travel time should be considered in the development of strategies for AST.

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“…In general, we will prioritise papers that evaluate or inform the development of interventions and policies to improve population health, or that make a genuinely original contribution, rather than basic descriptive studies. More complex studies include assessment of school commuting in relation to: school enrolment and choice (Mandic et al 2017); school travel policies (Hollein et al 2017); perceptions of walking time to school (Mehdizadeh et al 2017); the built environment (Mammen et al 2014;Sun et al 2018); and interventions (Christiansen et al 2014).…”

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School physical activity policies and active transport to school among pupils in the Czech Republic

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School policies and practices associated with Thai children’s overall and domain specific physical activity

School policies and practices associated with Thai children’s overall and domain specific physical activity

12-Year Trends in Active School Transport across Four European Countries—Findings from the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) Study

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