Burn and earn: A randomized controlled trial incentivizing exercise during fall semester for college first-year students

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 197-201

  Pope, Lizzy ^a   Harvey Berino, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

College students; Exercise; Incentives

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BODY MASS; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FITNESS; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONETARY INCENTIVE; MONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REWARD;

CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, FEMALE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, UNPLANNED;

EID: 84874307635     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.12.020     Document Type: Article

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