title: Active travel to non-school destinations but not to school is associated with higher physical activity levels in an ethnically diverse sample of inner-city schoolchildren.
abstract: This study investigated the association of travel mode to school and non-school destinations with objectively assessed health markers and physical activity in an ethnically diverse sample of inner-city UK schoolchildren.
  
  
  
  We used data from the Camden Active Spaces project (n = 450 children aged 9.1 yrs) to examine associations of school travel mode and frequency of active travel to non-school destinations with daily and out-of-school physical activity, sedentary time and health markers; whilst controlling for appropriate covariates including objectively measured route length.
  
  
  
  High frequency of active travel to non-school destinations was associated with more time in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity during out-of-school periods (3.8, 0.8-6.9 min/d) and greater out-of-school (738, 197.4-1278.6 steps/d) and daily step counts (588.1, 51.6-1124.6 steps/d). No associations were observed between school travel mode, health outcomes and activity levels.
  
  
  
  High frequency of active travel to non-school destinations is associated with higher levels of physical activity. These findings highlight the contribution of travel to non-school destinations to overall physical activity levels in schoolchildren.
authors.affiliation: The Cambridge Centre for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Department of Life Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, CB1 1PT, UK. lee.smith@anglia.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Lee
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.affiliation: Physical Activity Research Group, University College London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Aggio
authors.affiliation: National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.|National Institute for Health Research Leicester-Loughborough Diet, Lifestyle and Physical Activity Biomedical Research Unit, Leicester, UK.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hamer
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services; D002947:Cities; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005006:Ethnicity; D015444:Exercise; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008131:London; D008297:Male; D063766:Pediatric Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012574:Schools; D014186:Transportation
keywords: Accelerometry; Active transport; Sedentary behaviour