Barriers to children's walking to school in Iranian and Chinese samples

摘要: Abstract Factors that contribute to children’s walking school have been investigated in previous research, which primarily focussed on socio-economic variables high income countries. There is a general lack of studies examined mode choice differences trips low and middle Focusing parental social cognitive addition household characteristics, the present study among first compare barriers daily commuting schools across samples from two countries: Iran China. A self-administered questionnaire was devised distributed primary pupils (7–9 years old) Mashhad, Nanjing, The children were asked take questionnaires their parents complete return filled forms. total 671 (response rate 90 percent) 224 82 completely returned Mashhad respectively. Multivariate analysis covariance (MANCOVA) showed perceived higher risk reported more worry being involved road crashes when school. Analyses revealed safety favourable attitudes Chinese sample, compared Iranian sample. Parental towards transport safer sample Nanjing as Mashhad. Hierarchical binary logistic regression time home about negatively associated with both samples. In results suggested while household car ownership family associated with decreased probability child walk school, number increased