An Intervention to Reduce Television Viewing by Preschool Children

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 170-176

  Dennison, Barbara A ^a,c   Russo, Theresa J ^b   Burdick, Patrick A ^a   Jenkins, Paul L ^a  

^a BASSETT HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD GROWTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL POPULATION; TELEVISION; TYPES OF STUDY; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; NEW YORK; RURAL POPULATION; TELEVISION;

EID: 0842311634     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.158.2.170     Document Type: Article

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