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The relationship between bicycle commuting and perceived stress:
                a cross-sectional study

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INTRODUCTION: Active commuting - walking and bicycling for
                travel to and/or from work or educational addresses - may
                facilitate daily, routine physical activity. Several studies
                have investigated the relationship between active commuting and
                commuting stress; however, there are no studies examining the
                relationship between solely bicycle commuting and perceived
                stress, or studies that account for environmental determinants
                of bicycle commuting and stress. The current study evaluated the
                relationship between bicycle commuting, among working or
                studying adults in a dense urban setting, and perceived stress.
                METHODS: A cross-sectional study was performed with 788 adults
                who regularly travelled to work or study locations (excluding
                those who only commuted on foot) in Barcelona, Spain.
                Participants responded to a comprehensive telephone survey
                concerning their travel behaviour from June 2011 through to May
                2012. Participants were categorised as either bicycle commuters
                or non-bicycle commuters, and (based on the Perceived Stress
                Scale, PSS-4) as either stressed or non-stressed. Multivariate
                Poisson regression with robust variance models of stress status
                based on exposures with bicycle commuting were estimated and
                adjusted for potential confounders. RESULTS: Bicycle commuters
                had significantly lower risk of being stressed than non-bicycle
                commuters (Relative Risk; RR (95% CI)=0.73 (0.60 to 0.89),
                p=0.001). Bicycle commuters who bicycled 4 days per week (RR
                (95% CI)=0.42 (0.24 to 0.73), p=0.002) and those who bicycled 5
                or more days per week (RR (95% CI)=0.57 (0.42 to 0.77),
                p<0.001) had lower risk of being stressed than those who
                bicycled less than 4 days. This relationship remained
                statistically significant after adjusting for individual and
                environmental confounders and when using different cut-offs of
                perceived stress. CONCLUSIONS: Stress reduction may be an
                important consequence of routine bicycle use and should be
                considered by decision makers as another potential benefit of
                its promotion.

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Reproducció del document publicat a:
                http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013542

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cc by-nc (c) Ávila Palencia, Ione et al., 2017

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Articles publicats en revistes (ISGlobal)

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The relationship between bicycle commuting and perceived stress:
                a cross-sectional study