Sustainable Innovations for Children Traveling Actively 3.0
Lack of physical activity threatens childrens health in the long run. The SICTA 3.0 project aims to increase knowledge about how social norms interact with health behaviour, which here specifically refers to children's healthy and independent mobility.
Only a minority of children in Sweden reach the targets in the WHO recommendation on daily physical activity, and there is a global trend of decreasing levels, which makes it urgent to find precise and sustainable solutions to reverse this trend.
Healthy and independent mobility, for example walking or cycling, is an effective way for children to increase physical activity. Social norms can shape and reinforce health-promoting behaviors. There is currently a gap in knowledge about how social norms influence health behavior when it comes to children's physical activity and especially independent active mobility. Knowledge of how social norms for children, youth, and critical others, such as parents, affect children's health and well-being is required to design, implement, and evaluate interventions that attempt to influence their health-related behaviors.
This project aims to increase knowledge about how social norms interact with health behaviour, which here specifically refers to children's healthy and independent mobility.
Kontakt
- Jimmy Ingemansson, doktorand
- Anna-Karin Lindqvist, biträdande professor
- Stina Rutberg, biträdande professor
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