Process evaluation results from the healthy directions-small business study

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 90-107

  Hunt, Mary K ^a,f   Barbeau, Elizabeth M ^a,b   Lederman, Ruth ^a   Stoddard, Anne M ^c   Chetkovich, Carol ^d   Goldman, Roberta ^e   Wallace, Lorraine ^a   Sorensen, Glorian ^a,b  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NEW ENGLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Occupational health; Prevention research; Process evaluation; Worksite health promotion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; ETHNIC GROUP; EXERCISE; FRUIT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLE; WORKPLACE;

DATA COLLECTION; DIET; ETHNIC GROUPS; EXERCISE; FRUIT; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLES; WORKPLACE;

EID: 33846415872     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: 15526127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090198105277971     Document Type: Article

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