Who stays, who drops out? Biosocial predictors of longer-term adherence in participants attending an exercise referral scheme in the UK

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Tobi, Patrick ^a   Estacio, Emee Vida ^b   Yu, Ge ^a   Renton, Adrian ^a   Foster, Nena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attendance; Biosocial; Exercise referral; Longer term adherence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT DROPOUTS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84860803649     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-347     Document Type: Article

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