Characteristics of participants visiting the Canada on the move website

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 97, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages

  Plotnikoff, Ronald C ^a   Spence, John C ^a   Tavares, Leonor S ^a   Rovniak, Liza S ^b   Bauman, Adrian ^c   Lear, Scott A ^d   McCargar, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Demographics; Environment; Physical activity; Social cognitive; Steps; Web based interventions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; COGNITION; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; SAMPLE SIZE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; CANADIAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANADA; DATA COLLECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS;

EID: 33646348999     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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