The feasibility of using pedometers and brief advice to increase activity in sedentary older women - A pilot study

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Sugden, Jacqui A ^a   Sniehotta, Falko F ^b   Donnan, Peter T ^c   Boyle, Paul ^d   Johnston, Derek W ^b   McMurdo, Marion E T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETRY; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DEVICE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MOVEMENT; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PEDOMETER; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PILOT STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF MONITORING; WALKING; ACCELERATION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COUNSELING; EXERCISE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH PROMOTION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; UNITED KINGDOM; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ACCELERATION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COUNSELING; EXERCISE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCOTLAND; WALKING; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 50649085215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-8-169     Document Type: Article

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