Pilot Intervention to Increase Physical Activity Among Sedentary Urban Middle School Girls: A Two-Group Pretest-Posttest Quasi-Experimental Design

Journal of School Nursing

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 302-315

  Robbins, Lorraine B ^a   Pfeiffer, Karin A ^a   Maier, Kimberly S ^a   Lo, Yun Jia ^a   Wesolek, Stacey M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescents; intervention; physical activity

Indexed keywords

ACTIMETRY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NURSE ATTITUDE; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL HEALTH NURSING; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ACTIGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NURSE'S ROLE; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOL NURSING; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84864040371     PISSN: 10598405     EISSN: 15468364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059840512438777     Document Type: Article

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