Awareness of physical activity in healthy middle-aged adults: A cross-sectional study of associations with sociodemographic, biological, behavioural, and psychological factors

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Godino, Job G ^a   Watkinson, Clare ^a   Corder, Kirsten ^a,b   Sutton, Stephen ^b   Griffin, Simon J ^a,b   Van Sluijs, Esther M F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Awareness; Barriers; Behaviour change; Correlates; Misperception; Objective measurement; Personalised feedback; Physical activity

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETRY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; BODY MASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACCELEROMETRY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERWEIGHT; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84900385486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-421     Document Type: Article

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