Relating built environment to physical activity: Two failures to validate

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1233-1249

  Schopflocher, Donald ^a   Van Spronsen, Eric ^a   Nykiforuk, Candace I J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Built environment; Health; Irvine minnesota inventory; Reliability; Replication; Scales

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; BUILT ENVIRONMENT; CANADA; DATA PROCESSING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IRVINE MINNESOTA INVENTORY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RELIABILITY; REPLICATION STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; VALIDATION STUDY; WALKING; ALGORITHM; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXERCISE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

ALBERTA; ALGORITHMS; ENVIRONMENT; EXERCISE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84893608946     PISSN: 16617827     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph110201233     Document Type: Article

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