Attitudes of postmenopausal women toward interactive video dance for exercise

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1239-1243

  Inzitari, Marco ^a,b,c   Greenlee, Adam ^a   Hess, Rachel ^a   Perera, Subashan ^a   Studenski, Stephanie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DANCING; FEMALE; HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECREATION; SELF CONCEPT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DANCING; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 70349222760     PISSN: 15409996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2008.1176     Document Type: Article

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