Validating the Perceived Active School Travel Enablers and Barriers – Child (PASTEB-C) questionnaire

Buttazzoni, A.; Pham, J.; Clark, A.; Romanelli-Baird, E.; Gilliland, J.

doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2023.07.031

Cited by 4 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 63 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…This study was undertaken within the context of a regional Active and Safe Routes to School (ASRTS) initiative in Southwestern Ontario, Canada featuring an ongoing school travel plan (STP) programme. The onset of COVID-19 pandemic, however, propelled this regional STP programme evaluation to shift part of its focus towards developing additional programming tools (Buttazzoni, Pham, et al, 2023 ; Clark et al, 2023 ) and new multicomponent road safety interventions to use in future STPs for its primary target group: children between the ages 9–14 and their parents. 1 Consequently, the present study included AST experts and practitioners from relevant professional fields from across the Canadian province of Ontario—the most populous province at ~ 15.5 million people (Ontario Ministry of Finance, 2023 )—to investigate the latter focus regarding multicomponent intervention design.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is important to note that parents and children were initially involved in the development of the questionnaire items through two pilot studies (Buttazzoni, Pham, et al, 2023 ) which assessed the reliability, face validity, and construct validity of the items with respect to their AST perceptions. Given that the first component of the ASRTS initiative focused on utilizing parents and children’s feedback to validate the questionnaire items, the second component (i.e., the current study) sought to conceptualize the items by consulting with experts who are more equipped to revise and organize the questions into their respective themes to reflect priority AST areas for future interventions, hence the exclusion of parents and children from the group discussion.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Supporting children’s participation in active travel: developing an online road safety intervention through a collaborative integrated knowledge translation approach

Buttazzoni,

Pham,

Nelson Ferguson

et al. 2024

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Even though regular engagement in physical activity (PA) among children can support their development and encourage the adoption of healthy lifelong habits, most do not achieve their recommended guidelines. Active travel (AT), or any form of human-powered travel (e.g., walking), can be a relatively accessible, manageable, and sustainable way to promote children’s PA. One common barrier to children’s engagement in AT, however, is a reported lack of education and training. To support children’s participation in AT, this paper presents the development of a comprehensive 4-module online road safety education intervention designed to improve children’s knowledge and confidence regarding AT. Using a qualitative integrated knowledge translation (iKT) approach undertaken with community collaborators ( n = 50) containing expertise in health promotion, public safety, school administration, and transportation planning, our inductive thematic analysis generated fourth themes which constituted the foundation of the intervention modules: Active Travel Knowledge: Awareness of Benefits and Participation ; Pedestrian Safety and Skills: Roles, Responsibilities, and Rules ; Signs and Infrastructure: Identification, Literacy, and Behaviour ; Wheeling Safety and Skills: Technical Training and Personal Maneuvers . Each theme/module was then linked to an explicit learning objective and connected to complementary knowledge activities, resources, and skill development exercises. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

show abstract

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting children’s participation in active travel: developing an online road safety intervention through a collaborative integrated knowledge translation approach

Buttazzoni,

Pham,

Nelson Ferguson

et al. 2024

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Prior to engaging with their respective module(s), participants first completed a baseline survey on Qualtrics that collected their sociodemographic information, and then subsequently examined their awareness of active school travel (AST) benefits, road safety knowledge, and perceptions of AST barriers and facilitators. Survey questions were derived from our team’s validated Perceived AST Barriers and Enablers—Child (PASTEB-C) questionnaire [ 91 ]. Specific measures used in the survey to evaluate the intervention are detailed in the sections below.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With respect to RQ2, this component of the intervention was evaluated using a variety of statistical methods. All measures used to evaluate the preliminary intervention effectiveness in children were drawn from a validated road safety knowledge questionnaire developed for AST programming [ 91 ]. The 26-item knowledge questionnaire was comprised of four AT knowledge questions and 22 road safety knowledge questions.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Applying the multiphase optimization strategy to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of an online road safety education intervention for children and parents: a pilot study

Pham,

Buttazzoni,

Gilliland

2024

BMC Public Health

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background Reports of children’s engagement in active transportation outline low participation rates in many countries despite many associated mental, physical, and social health benefits. One of the main contributors to this phenomenon is a cited lack of education and knowledge among children regarding active travel (AT), specifically road safety. To address this issue, the aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of an online road safety education intervention to promote AT among children and their parents. Methods Applying the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) for intervention development, implementation, and evaluation, we designed and assessed a four-module online road safety education intervention with a sample of 57 parent-child dyads using a 23 factorial design featuring both qualitative and quantitative analyses. Results Main intervention feasibility findings include positive and critical feedback on the program’s content and design, and moderate participant engagement as reflected by program retention and completion rates. With respect to the preliminary intervention effectiveness on children, a significant improvement in road safety knowledge scores was observed for groups that feature the “wheeling safety and skills” module. Slight improvements in AT knowledge scores across all the intervention groups were observed, but were not of significance. Preliminary intervention effectiveness on select parental AT practices and perceptions saw significant improvements in some groups. Groups that featured the ‘wheeling safety and skills’ module exhibited significantly higher guided choice scores upon completion of the program than those who did not receive this component. Conclusion The MOST framework allowed us to design and evaluate the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of an online road safety education intervention. The developed intervention has demonstrated that it has the potential to improve children’s road safety knowledge and some areas of parental AT practices and perceptions, to which improvements may be attributed to the inclusion of the “wheeling safety and skills” module, suggesting that the targeted focus on cycling skills is a prioritized area. AT programming and practice implications are discussed. Future research is encouraged to refine modules to better reflect the priorities of children and parents and to test these refined components among larger samples. Word count 9,391 (excludes abstract, tables, figures, abbreviations, and references).

show abstract

Do environmental attitudes predict perceived active school travel barriers, facilitators, and motivations among youth? Evidence from a national Canadian survey

Buttazzoni,

Pham,

Zhong

et al. 2024

Journal of Transport & Health

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Validating the Perceived Active School Travel Enablers and Barriers – Child (PASTEB-C) questionnaire

Cited by 4 publications

References 63 publications

Supporting children’s participation in active travel: developing an online road safety intervention through a collaborative integrated knowledge translation approach

Supporting children’s participation in active travel: developing an online road safety intervention through a collaborative integrated knowledge translation approach

Applying the multiphase optimization strategy to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of an online road safety education intervention for children and parents: a pilot study

Do environmental attitudes predict perceived active school travel barriers, facilitators, and motivations among youth? Evidence from a national Canadian survey

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About