Boy Scout 5-a-Day Badge: Outcome results of a troop and Internet intervention

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 518-526

  Thompson, Debbe ^a   Baranowski, Tom ^a   Baranowski, Janice ^a   Cullen, Karen ^a   Jago, Russell ^b   Watson, Kathy ^a   Liu, Yan ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Availability; Boy Scouts; Fruit; Interactive multimedia; Internet; Intervention study; Self efficacy; Vegetable

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; FRUIT JUICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERNET; LOW FAT DIET; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITION EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF CONCEPT; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DIET; FRUIT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MOTIVATION; ORGANIZATIONS, NONPROFIT; SELF EFFICACY; TEXAS; VEGETABLES;

EID: 70749113607     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2009.09.010     Document Type: Article

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