Abstract
Objectives: To (1) assess cycling-related questions that have been added to the electronic version of the American College Health Association National College Health Assessment II (ACHA-NCHA), (2) examine cycling prevalence, and (3) identify predictors of cycling in college students.
Participants: Predominately female (69%), undergraduate (89%), and white (85%) students (N = 949) from a large, urban, northwestern, bicycle-friendly university completed the electronic version of the ACHA-NCHA II.
Methods: Thirty cycling-related questions were added to the ACHA-NCHA II and a subsample of questions was analyzed. Results: Cycling questions added to the ACHA-NCHA II scale were reliable and valid, based on the psychometric data analysis. More than half (59%) of this sample cycled; of those, 58% cycled for transportation and 44% for recreation. Facilitators and barriers to cycling were different for cycling in general and cycling for transportation.
Conclusions: Cycling questions added to the ACHA-NCHA II can be utilized to enhance knowledge relative to cycling on college campuses.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 274-284 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Journal of American College Health |
Volume | 61 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jul 2013 |
Scopus Subject Areas
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
User-Defined Keywords
- active transportation
- bicycling
- community health
- health education
- recreation