Jeroen Lakerveld, Hidde P van der Ploeg, Willemieke Kroeze, Wolfgang Ahrens, Oliver Allais, Lene Andersen, Greet Cardon, Laura Capranica, Sebastien Chastin, Alan Donnelly, Ulf Ekelund, Paul Finglas, Marion Flechtner-Mors, Antje Hebestreit, Ingrid Hendriksen, Thomas Kubiak, Massimo Lanza, Anne Loyen, Ciaran MacDonncha, Mario Mazzocchi, Pablo Monsivais, Marie Murphy, Ute Nöthlings, Donal ...
Background: Little is known about the types of ‘sit less, move more’ strategies that appeal to office employees, or what factors influence their use. This study assessed the uptake of strategies in Spanish university office employees engaged in an intervention, and those factors that enabled or limited strategy uptake. Methods: ...
Background: The school-based Dutch Obesity Intervention in Teenagers (DOiT) programme is an evidence-based obesity prevention programme tailored to adolescents attending the first two years of prevocational education in the Netherlands. The initial programme showed promising results during an effectiveness trial. The programme was then adapted and prepared for nationwide dissemination ...
Background: Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second cause of cancer deaths amongst women in the UK. The incidence of the disease is increasing and is highest in women from least deprived areas. It is estimated that around 42% of the disease in post-menopausal women could ...
Background: Studies that have examined the impact of a physical activity intervention on cardiometabolic risk factors have yielded conflicting results. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of a standardized physical activity program on adiposity and cardiometabolic risk factors in schoolchildren. Methods: Cluster randomized trial study of ...
Background: Unlike leisure time physical activity, knowledge of the socioeconomic determinants of active transport is limited, research on this topic has produced mixed and inconsistent findings, and it remains unknown if peoples? engagement in active transport declines as they age. This longitudinal study examined relationships between neighbourhood disadvantage, individual-level socioeconomic ...
Background: Effective lifestyle interventions are needed to prevent noncommunicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries. We analyzed the effects of a school-based health promotion intervention on physical fitness after 28 months and explored if the effect varied with important school characteristics. We also assessed effects on screen time, physical activity and ...
Nicola J Spurrier, Anthea A Magarey, Rebecca Golley, Fiona Curnow, Michael G SawyerInternational Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2008, 5:31 (30 May 2008) ...
Eric Robinson, Ellis Harris, Jason Thomas, Paul Aveyard, Suzanne HiggsInternational Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013, 10:73 (5 June 2013) ...
Background: Over the past 30 years, obesity in the United States has increased twofold in children and threefold in adolescents. In Georgia, nearly 17% of children aged 10 - 17 are obese. In response to the high prevalence of child obesity in Georgia and the potential deleterious consequences that this ...
Fiona Johnson, Jane WardleInternational Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011, 8:83 (2 August 2011) ...
Ellen Haug, Torbjørn Torsheim, Oddrun SamdalInternational Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2008, 5:47 (29 September 2008) ...
Graham Baker, Stuart R Gray, Annemarie Wright, Claire Fitzsimons, Myra Nimmo, Ruth Lowry, Nanette Mutrie, the Scottish Physical Activity Research Collaboration (SPARColl)International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2008, 5:44 (5 September 2008) ...
The purpose of this review was to determine the degree to which physical activity interventions for Latin American populations reported on internal and external validity factors using the RE-AIM framework (reach & representativeness, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, maintenance). We systematically identified English (PubMed; EbscoHost) and Spanish (SCIELO; Biblioteca Virtual en Salud) ...
Background: Maternal depression may influence feeding practices important in determining child eating behaviors and weight. However, the association between maternal depressive symptoms and feeding practices has been inconsistent, and most prior studies used self-report questionnaires alone to characterize feeding. The purpose of this study was to identify feeding practices associated ...
Background: A natural and cheap way of increasing children's physical activity is stimulating unstructured outside play.Purpose: This study examined whether characteristics of the family and perceived physical environment were associated with the duration of children's outside play. Methods: Parents participating in the "Be Active, Eat Right" cluster RCT control group ...
Viktoria Svensson, Linda Lundborg, Yingting Cao, Paulina Nowicka, Claude Marcus, Tanja SobkoInternational Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011, 8:134 (8 December 2011) ...
Catrine Tudor-Locke, Cora L Craig, Michael W Beets, Sarahjane Belton, Greet M Cardon, Scott Duncan, Yoshiro Hatano, David R Lubans, Timothy S Olds, Anders Raustorp, David A Rowe, John C Spence, Shigeho Tanaka, Steven N BlairInternational Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011, 8:78 (28 July 2011) ...
Caroline HD Jones, David OgilvieInternational Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012, 9:109 (11 September 2012) ...
Background: Previous studies suggest that British children of South Asian origin are less active and more sedentary than White British children. However, little is known about the behaviours underlying low activity levels, nor the familial contexts of active and sedentary behaviours in these groups. Our aim was to test hypotheses ...
