title: School travel mode, parenting practices and physical activity among UK Year 5 and 6 children.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  School travel mode and parenting practices have been associated with children's physical activity (PA). The current study sought to examine whether PA parenting practices differ by school travel mode and whether school travel mode and PA parenting practices are associated with PA.
  
  
  METHODS
  469 children (aged 9-11) wore accelerometers from which mean weekday and after-school (3.30 to 8.30 pm) minutes of moderate-to-vigorous intensity PA (MVPA) and counts per minute (CPM) were derived. Mode of travel to and from school (passive vs. active) and PA parenting practices (maternal and paternal logistic support and modelling behaviour) were child-reported.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Children engaged in an average of 59.7 minutes of MVPA per weekday. Active travel to school by girls was associated with 5.9 more minutes of MVPA per day compared with those who travelled to school passively (p = 0.004). After-school CPM and MVPA did not differ by school travel mode. There was no evidence that physical activity parenting practices were associated with school travel mode.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  For girls, encouraging active travel to school is likely to be important for overall PA. Further formative research may be warranted to understand how both parental logistic support and active travel decisions are operationalized in families as a means of understanding how to promote increased PA among pre-adolescent children.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Exercise, Nutrition & Health Sciences, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. Russ.Jago@bristol.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Russell
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jago
authors.forename: Lesley
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wood
authors.forename: Simon J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Sebire
authors.forename: Mark J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Davies
authors.forename: Kathryn
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Banfield
authors.forename: Kenneth R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Fox
authors.forename: Janice L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: Ashley R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: Alan A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Montgomery
mesh_terms: D001642:Bicycling; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity; D018986:Motor Vehicles; D016487:Parenting; D010290:Parents; D012574:Schools; D014186:Transportation; D014195:Travel; D006113:United Kingdom; D016138:Walking
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