Abstract
Abstract Aims: 1) to identify the prevalence of active commuting to school (ACS) among Brazilian regions; and 2) to determine associated factors related to ACS in this population. Methods: Cross-sectional study comprising 16,493 adolescents (mean age 14.09±2.12 years). The data comes from the National School Health Survey (2015), and the information was collected by a self-reported questionnaire. Logistic regression models were performed to identify correlates of ACS. Results: Adolescents who live in the Southeast are more prone to have ACS compared to those who live in other regions. Do not have motor vehicles been positively associated with ACS [girls: 2.04 (1.72;2.42); boys 1.85(1.63;2.10)]. Those whom self-reported white was less prone to have ACS compared to their peers from other ethnicities. Those enrolled in private schools [girls: 0.43(0.34;0.54); boys (0.45(0.39;0.53)] and schools setting in rural area [girls: 0.38(0.25;0.57); boys: 0.51(0.37;71)] are less prone to show ACS. In addition, adolescents who accumulated less active time during physical education classes [girls: 0.80(0.66;0.97)] and extracurricular shifts [boys: 0.69(0.60;0.80)] were less prone to have an ACS, compared to their most active peers. Lastly, girls who spent ≤ 2 hours presented fewer odds to have an ACS [0.75(0.63;0.90)]. Conclusions: ACS was most prevalent among those who live in the Southeast region and seems to be negativity associated with the socioeconomic level. Moreover, less active adolescents during both school and leisure time may be more prone to have passive travel go/from school.
Highlights
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that adolescents should be engaged in at least 60 min/day of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, to improve health and prevent diseases[1]
In the final statistic model, (Table 3 and Table 4) we observed that to live in the Southeast region and “have not” a motor vehicle been associated with active commuting to/from school (ACS)
Regarding variables related to physical activity, girls who accumulated less active time during physical education classes and boys who accumulated less active time during extracurricular shifts were less prone to have an ACS, compared to most active peers
Summary
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that adolescents should be engaged in at least 60 min/day of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, to improve health and prevent diseases[1]. This recommendation can be expressed as a result of the sum of activities performed in different domains, such as work/school, transport, household chores, and leisure time)[2]. Like Brazil, it is estimated that about 34.4 to 73% of adolescents go/come from school by an active way[9], being that this variation may be influenced by different methods used to assess ACS. Data about active transport in Brazil have been based majority in studies carried out in South and Southeast regions, while that data from the Northeast region is still little explored; lastly, information from North and Midwest regions were few reported by the previous literature[9]
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