Stairs Flashcards
6 barriers to why people don’t take stairs
- Perception that it takes too long
- Too much effort
- Perception that it is dangerous
- Accessibility
- Aesthetics
- Not wide enough for group of people to ascend together or ascend and descend simultaneously
3 Intervention strategies to promote stairuse
- Decrease barriers to stairs
- Increase barriers to elevators
- Incentives
How to dec barriers to stairs
- Make stairwell more:
1. Accessible
2. Visible
3. Well lit
4. Wider
5. Attractive (plants, clean, pleasant aroma, interesting)
Disadvantages of increasing barriers to elevators (2)
- Disadvantages people who need to take stairs cause of mobility issues/transporting materials w/cart
- Considered better to use pos incentives than neg incentives to attempt to modify people’s behaviour
Why is using a reward like a chocolate bar for taking the stair controversial
- The reward they chose undermined the larger intent of promoting stair walking for weight control
- The inc in stair-walking the (extrinsic) reward produced was prob temp. & following week w/out candy reward many people may revert to elevator use
Possible ways to measure outcome use for stairs
- Measure stair n elevator use both b4 n after intervention
- Measure @ same time (of yr, of week, of day)
- Also measure in weeks n months following intervention to see how persistent is any change in stair or elevator use
- Indirect measures (e.g. surveys asking q’s like “Do u take the stairs or elevators”) are less desirable than direct measures such as:
- Having observers discreetly positioned to view and record stair and elevator use
- Film the stairwell and elevator. A motion-activated recorder will save the researcher from scanning minutes of film w/no people. Covert filming may present privacy issues in some contexts
- Use pressure-activated mat or infra-red light beam to record how many people pass a given point. Don’t use a turnstile w/a counter, as the turnstile imposes a barrier to use
- If you just count people moving past one point (e.g. at the bottom of the stairs) u will not account for the fact that some people traverse a single flight of stairs while others take multiple flights
- Are u only interested in stairs ascent, or also in descents
What were the 5 criteria accessed during the study on downtown buildings stairs
- Was the entrance to the stairwell visible from the entrance to building or from the elevators
- Was there a door or no door to the stairwell
- If there was a door, was it solid, glass, or locked? Was there a sign indicating that stairs were behind the door?
- Was the stairwell considered brightly lit
- Was the stairwell spacious enough for 2 people
Of the buildings that had stairwells how many met all of their accessibility criteria
11%
What is the Stairway to Health program
- Program encourages people to take stairs at work
- Partnership between Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Council for Health and Active Living at Work
Bicycling is an effective form of what exercise
aerobic
Advantage of bicycling over running for people w/orthopedic limitations like arthritis
No impact w/ground on each step that accompanies runnning
Advantage of bicycling over running for people w/heavy peopl
Bicycle supports the rider’s body weight, so on relatively flat terrain heavy people are less handicapped when cycling rather than running
Why do people cycle
- For sport, fitness, transportation, and recreation
One of the most effective ways to promote community PA?
- create environment that allow people to walk or cycle as they go about their daily activities: shopping, going to work or school, visiting friends, even going out socially
Who is the most persuadable group, the ones most likely to adopt cycle transport?
- people who would cycle to school, work, gym, store etc. if conditions were favourable
Why are lack of bike lanes not a barier
- real barrier is ‘fear of riding w/motor vehicle traffic’
- bike lanes more like solution to this barrier
8 barriers to bicycle use
- Fear of ‘sharing the road’ w/motor vehicles (aggressive drivers compound this)
- Perception that it takes longer to bike than drive/take the bus
- Perception that it takes a lot of effort to cycle (hilly terrain n long distances compound this)
- Don’t want to arrive at destination sweaty, smelly, or tired
- Limited carrying capacity e.g. passengers, books, groceries
- Concern that bike will be stolen
- Don’t want to get wet and cold riding in the rain
- Perception that its not safe to ride after dark
6 intervention strategies to dec barriers to cycling
- Physical interventions
- Policy changes
- Bike share programs
- Urban redesign
- New L.A. law bans harassing bicyclists
- Changing societal norms
5 examples to slns to 1. Physical interventions
- Build bike lanes that separate cyclists from motorists
- Provide more n better change rooms n showers at schools n workplaces
- Provide secure bike storage
- Design racks that carry more than 2 bikes on public transit buses
- Build covered bike lanes to shelter riders from rain
4 examples to Policy changes
- Allows bus riders to bring their bikes into bus
- Schedule the 1st classes of the day to start later (allow peeps more time to cycle to school)
- Provide valet service at SFU for cyclists
- Organize a meal delivery and/or baggage transport service that would offset the limited capacity of bikes.
What was purpose of Mexico’s Eco-Bici program
- inc bicycle mode share (% of commuting) from 1% to 5%
- price for bikes structure for short-term use like cycling for work
Cons of proposed Vancouver Bici bike share program
- hurt business of bike rental shops
- Van’s helmet laws means rider need to bring own helmets or use shared ones (unhygienic)
- requires lots of funding
Examples of Urban redesign, and how does it inc bike useage
- refigure communities so that home, work, school, shopping, n recreation are closer together
- changes in zoning n land use can foster high-density urban clusters rather than sprawling metropolises where people live in residential suburbs n commute large distances by car or bus
- more compact communities facilitate transport by foot or bike
Explain the new L.A law for cyclists
- makes it a crime for motorists to harass bicyclists, verbally or physically
- allows victims of harassment to file civil lawsuits w/out waiting for city to press charges