Characteristics of accelerometry respondents to a mail-based surveillance study

Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 446-452

  Inoue, Shigeru ^a   Ohya, Yumiko ^a   Odagiri, Yuko ^a   Takamiya, Tomoko ^a   Kamada, Masamitsu ^b   Okada, Shinpei ^c   Tudor Locke, Catrine ^d   Shimomitsu, Teruichi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Physical Education and Medicine Research Center UNNAN   (Japan)

^c Physical Education and Medicine Research Foundation   (Japan)

^d PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Assessment; Physical activity; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JAPAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POSTAL MAIL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGED; CITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POSTAL SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELECTION BIAS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78449256695     PISSN: 09175040     EISSN: 13499092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2188/jea.JE20100062     Document Type: Article

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