The current study aimed to investigate the association of neighbourhood safety in three levels with children’s physical activity. These levels include parental perception and children’s perception as subjective measurements and reported rates of crime and traffic as objective measurements. 1421 questionnaires were distributed in primary schools among eligible children and their parents in Bandar Abbas city, Iran. Boys were more active than girls, but the level of physical activity in children was generally low. Parents were more concerned about neighbourhood safety compared with their children. Both subjective and objective measurements of safety contributed with children’s physical activity. Policymakers and designers should develop environments where both parents and children perceive as having sufficient levels of safety and consider interventions for reducing crime and traffic rates so as to increase children’s physical activity.

当前的研究旨在调查三个级别的邻里安全与儿童身体活动的关系。这些水平包括父母感知和儿童感知作为主观衡量指标，而犯罪率和贩运率则作为客观衡量指标。在伊朗班达阿巴斯市的合格儿童及其父母中，向小学分发了1421份问卷。男孩比女孩更加活跃，但是儿童的身体活动水平普遍较低。与孩子相比，父母更加关注社区安全。安全性的主观和客观评估都与儿童的体育活动有关。