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Table 10 Interventional effects on psychosocial factors among parents and their child’s AST

From: Children’s active school transportation: an international scoping review of psychosocial factors

  

Reported effects

 

Reference

Intervention

Confidence in ability

Attitudes

Social support

Social norms

Children’s AST behaviour

Comment

[36]

Baseline and follow-up data on a safe route to school (SRTS) intervention, involving non-infrastructure (encouragement) and infrastructure (engineering) intervention

Positive effect on parents’ self-efficacy among parents from infrastructure schools

NA

Positive effects on parental support

NA

Positive effects in the short but not on long term

Non-infrastructure funding appears to have slightly negative effects on AST over time compared with matched schools without funding

[51]

Free-form questionnaire and photovoice data on a gamification-based intervention involving curriculum assignments during AST

NA

Positively affected parents’ attitudes

NA

NA

The results show that the intervention motivated the students to use AST

 

[91]

Focus-group data on a gamification-based intervention involving curriculum assignments during AST

NA

Positively affected parents’ attitudes

NA

NA

The children became highly motivated and put additional effort into AST

 

[92]

Mixed method data on a gamification-based intervention involving curriculum assignments during AST

NA

Positively affected parents’ attitudes

NA

NA

NA