Evaluation of an 8-week mailed healthy-weight intervention

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 288-295

  O'Loughlin, Jennifer ^a,b   Paradis, Gilles ^a,b   Meshefedjian, Garbis ^a   Kishchuk, Natalie ^c  

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Healthy weight; Low intensity intervention; Minimal contact; Pamphlet; Postal; Randomized controlled trial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; EATING HABIT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0032030149     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/pmed.1998.0265     Document Type: Article

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