Active Mobility and Environment: A Pilot Qualitative Study for the Design of a New Questionnaire.

ABSTRACT: It is generally accepted that active mobility, mainly walking and cycling, contributes to people's physical and mental health. One of the current challenges is to improve our understanding of this type of behaviour. This study aims to identify factors from the daily-life environment that may be related to active mobility behaviours, in order to design a new questionnaire for a quantitative study of a large adult population. The new questionnaire obtained through this pilot study combines information from interviews with existing questionnaires materials in order to introduce new factors while retaining the factors already assessed. This approach comprises three stages. The first was a content analysis (Reinert method) of interviews with a sample of participants about daily living activitie

SUBMITTER: Hess F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5215579 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature