Physical activity among a sample of Iranians aged over 60 years: An application of the transtheoretical model

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 528-536

  Salehi, Leili ^a   Eftekhar, Hassan ^a,b   Mohammad, Kazem ^c   Taghdisi, Mohammad Hossain ^a   Shojaeizadeh, Davoud ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Elderly; Physical activity; Self efficacy; Transtheoretical model

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EXERCISE; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; IRAN; LAZINESS; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY SCALE FOR ELDERLY; RATING SCALE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SELF EFFICACY;

EID: 78649437455     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: 17353947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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