title: How far do children travel from their homes? Exploring children's activity spaces in their neighborhood.
abstract: This study explored children's activity spaces. In 2007, children aged 10-12 years (n=1480) completed a survey and mapping activity, and wore a pedometer for seven days. Their parents completed a survey (n=1314). Over half traveled <25% of their 'neighborhood', defined as 800 m and 1600 m network buffers. More local destinations (boys β=-0.022; girls β=-0.013) and parent report of living on a busy road (girls β=-0.43) were associated with smaller activity spaces whereas being independently mobile resulted in larger (girls β=0.28) ones. Traditionally defined neighborhoods may not reflect children's movements. Freedom, fewer local destinations and traffic safety may be important for increasing spatial ranges.
authors: Centre for the Built Environment and Health, School of Population Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. kvillanueva@meddent.uwa.edu.au
authors: Karen
authors: K
authors: Villanueva
authors: Billie
authors: B
authors: Giles-Corti
authors: Max
authors: M
authors: Bulsara
authors: Gavin R
authors: GR
authors: McCormack
authors: Anna
authors: A
authors: Timperio
authors: Nick
authors: N
authors: Middleton
authors: Bridget
authors: B
authors: Beesley
authors: Georgina
authors: G
authors: Trapp
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003625:Data Collection; D004779:Environment Design; D005260:Female; D040362:Geographic Information Systems; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011998:Recreation; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D016138:Walking / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014904:Western Australia