Validated scales to assess adult self-efficacy to eat fruits and vegetables

American Journal of Health Promotion

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 210-217

  Mainvil, Louise A ^a   Lawson, Rob ^a   Horwath, Caroline C ^a   McKenzie, Joanne E ^a   Reeder, Anthony I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Adult; Food habits; Fruit; Health focus: nutrition; Instrument; Manuscript format: research; Outcome measure: cognitive; Prevention research; Research purpose: instrument development; Scale; Self efficacy; Setting: national; Strategy: behavior change; Study design: nonexperimental; Target population age: adults; Target population circumstances: none nationally representative sample; Vegetable

Indexed keywords

EID: 58449122481     PISSN: 08901171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4278/ajhp.061221154     Document Type: Article

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