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Project “Life-line”: More and safer mobility in children: the effectiveness of an intervention to promote active transport and to improve biking skills in elementary school children.
Acronym
Project LEVENSLIJN
Code
3G010510
Duration
01 January 2010 → 31 December 2015
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Education curriculum
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Public health care
    • Public health sciences
    • Public health services
Keywords
physical activity active transport children
 
Project description

This study aims to evaluate the effects of a multi-factorial intervention to promote safe active commuting to school. The effectsare evaluated on biking skills, on the number of children using active transport to commute to school and also in leisure time and on the predictors of choice of transport in parents, children and schools.