Activity Counseling Trial (ACT): Rationale, design, and methods

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1097-1106

  Blair, Steven N ^a   Applegate, William B ^a   Dunn, Andrea L ^a   Ettinger, Walter H ^a   Haskell, William L ^a   King, Abby C ^a   Morgan, Timothy M ^a   Shih, Joanna H ^a   Simons Morton, Denise G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Behavioral interventions; Clinical trial; Physical activity; Physical fitness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COUNSELING; DATA COLLECTION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT SELECTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031821029     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-199807000-00012     Document Type: Review

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