Associations of Active Commuting to School with Achieving Physical Activity Guideline and Health Body Weight among Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study of a Junior High School in New Taipei City as Example

• Main Authors: Cheng, Yu-Hsiang, 鄭宇翔
• Other Authors: Liao, Yung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9m7m8z

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 健康促進與衛生教育學系 === 104 === The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship of active commuting to school with physical activity and health body weight among adolescents. In 2015, a total of 459 junior high school students in New Taipei city were recruited, with 445 completing the survey (response rate of 96.9%). After data cleaning, 424 questionnaires were valid (effective answer rate of 95.3%). The main findings of this research were as follows: 1.The precentages of students to adapt active commuting , mix commuting and passive commuting to school were 30.4％, 56.1％, 13.5％ respectively. 2.The background factors like gender, age, education level of parents were not correlated with active commuting to school. 3. The precentages of students achieving Taiwan’s physical activity guideline was 73.8％, and 39.6％ met international physical activity guideline. Boys were more likely to achieve Taiwan’s physical activity guideline than girls. The active commuting to school was not correlated with physical activity guideline. 4. The prevalence rate of underweight, overweight and obesity were 5.0％, 10.6％ and 15.1％ respectively. Body mass index status was associated with gender and parents’ educational level. Boys were more likely to be overweight compared with girls. The active commuting to school was not correlated with health body weight. For schools, it is suggested to promote students to engage in active commuting to school, to enhance the knowledge and skills to participate in physical activity in girls, and to increase the knowledge and self-monitoring skills of healthy body weight in boys. Future studies are needed to target on large study sample, to examine more study variables on this issue by using multiple research methods in different region.