Promoting physical activity during school break times: Piloting a simple, low cost intervention

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 332-334

  Loucaides, Constantinos A ^a,b   Jago, Russell ^c   Charalambous, Ioannis ^a  

^a Ministry of Education and Culture Limassol   (Cyprus)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Intervention; Physical activity; School break

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GROUP DYNAMICS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; PEDOMETER; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; COST; CYPRUS; DEVICES; ECONOMICS; EXERCISE; INTERVENTION STUDY; LEISURE; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PROCEDURES; RECREATION; TIME;

CHILD; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CYPRUS; EXERCISE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PILOT PROJECTS; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; SCHOOLS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 63449102809     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2009.02.005     Document Type: Article

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