Identifying correlates of young adults' weight behavior: Survey development

American Journal of Health Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 712-725

  Larson, Nicole ^a   Neumark Sztainer, Dianne ^a   Story, Mary ^a   Van Den Berg, Patricia ^b   Hannan, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Dieting; Nutrition; Physical activity; Survey development; Young adults

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955490539     PISSN: 10873244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5993/ajhb.35.6.7     Document Type: Review

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