title: Active Mobility and Environment: A Pilot Qualitative Study for the Design of a New Questionnaire.
abstract: It is generally accepted that active mobility, mainly walking and cycling, contributes to people's physical and mental health. One of the current challenges is to improve our understanding of this type of behaviour. This study aims to identify factors from the daily-life environment that may be related to active mobility behaviours, in order to design a new questionnaire for a quantitative study of a large adult population. The new questionnaire obtained through this pilot study combines information from interviews with existing questionnaires materials in order to introduce new factors while retaining the factors already assessed. This approach comprises three stages. The first was a content analysis (Reinert method) of interviews with a sample of participants about daily living activities as well as mobility. This stage led to a typology of factors suggested by interviews. The second was a scoping review of the literature in order to identify the active mobility questionnaires currently used in international literature. The last stage was a cross-tabulation of the factors resulting from the written interviews and the questionnaires. A table of the inter-relationships between the interview-based typology and the questionnaires shows discrepancies between factors considered by the existing questionnaires, and factors coming from individual interviews. Independent factors which were ignored in or absent from the questionnaires are the housing situation within the urban structure, overall consideration of the activity space beyond the limits of the residential neighbourhood, the perception of all the transportation modes, and the time scheduling impacting the modes actually used. Our new questionnaire integrates both the usual factors and the new factors that may be related to active mobility behaviours.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Image, Ville, Environnement, Department of Geography, Strasbourg University, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: Franck
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hess
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Image, Ville, Environnement, Department of Geography, Strasbourg University, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Salze
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Image, Ville, Environnement, CNRS, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: Christiane
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.affiliation: Paris 13 University, Sorbonne Paris Cité-Equipe de Recherche en Epidémiologie Nutritionnelle, U1153 Inserm, Inra, Cnam, Centre de Recherche en Epidémiologie et Biostatistiques; CRNH IdF, Bobigny, France.
authors.forename: Thierry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Feuillet
authors.affiliation: Lab-Urba, Urbanism Institute of Paris, Department of Geography, Paris-Est Créteil University, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Hélène
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Charreire
authors.affiliation: Paris 13 University, Sorbonne Paris Cité-Equipe de Recherche en Epidémiologie Nutritionnelle, U1153 Inserm, Inra, Cnam, Centre de Recherche en Epidémiologie et Biostatistiques; CRNH IdF, Bobigny, France.
authors.forename: Mehdi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Menai
authors.affiliation: CARMEN, INSERM U1060/Lyon 1University/INRA U1235, Lyon, France.
authors.forename: Camille
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Perchoux
authors.affiliation: CARMEN, INSERM U1060/Lyon 1University/INRA U1235, Lyon, France.
authors.forename: Julie-Anne
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Nazare
authors.affiliation: CARMEN, INSERM U1060/Lyon 1University/INRA U1235, Lyon, France.
authors.forename: Chantal
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Simon
authors.affiliation: Paris 13 University, Sorbonne Paris Cité-Equipe de Recherche en Epidémiologie Nutritionnelle, U1153 Inserm, Inra, Cnam, Centre de Recherche en Epidémiologie et Biostatistiques; CRNH IdF, Bobigny, France.|Department of Nutrition, Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition (ICAN), Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (AP-HP), Pierre et Marie Curie University-Paris 6, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Jean-Michel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Oppert
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Image, Ville, Environnement, Department of Geography, Strasbourg University, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Enaux
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires