Changing Primary School Children's Engagement in Active School Travel Using Safe Routes to School Interventions: A Rapid Realist Review.

ABSTRACT: Safe Routes to School (SR2S) interventions have been implemented in many economically developed countries to improve children's engagement in Active School Travel (AST). Evaluations have highlighted inconsistencies in SR2S intervention outcomes, raising questions as to how, why, and under what contextual conditions these interventions work. This review used a Rapid Realist Review (RRR) methodology to build, test, and refine an overarching program theory that unpicks the contextual factors and underlying mechanisms influencing children's engagement in AST. From the 45 included documents, 16 refined Context-Mechanism-Outcome Configurations (CMOCs) were developed and clustered into three partial program theories (i.e., implementor/implementation, child, and parent), with the associated mechan

SUBMITTER: Vasey TV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9408451 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature