Do children's individual correlates of physical activity differ by home setting?

Health and Place

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1105-1112

  Craggs, Christopher ^a   Van Sluijs, Esther M F ^a,b   Corder, Kirsten ^a   Panter, Jenna R ^a   Jones, Andrew P ^a,c   Griffin, Simon J ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Correlates; Physical activity; Rural; Urban

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA;

ACCELEROMETER; ACTIMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOME; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN AREA;

EID: 80052550689     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: 18732054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2011.05.013     Document Type: Article

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