Sedentary Older Women's Limited Experience with Exercise

Journal of Community Health Nursing

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 197-208

  Conn, Vicki S ^a   Minor, Marian A ^a   Burks, Kathryn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; EXERCISE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; NURSING; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SENESCENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; DEPRESSION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF EFFICACY; WOMEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0345689410     PISSN: 07370016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327655JCHN2004_01     Document Type: Article

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