'On Your Feet to Earn Your Seat', a habit-based intervention to reduce sedentary behaviour in older adults: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gardner, Benjamin ^a   Thuné Boyle, Ingela ^a   Iliffe, Steve ^a   Fox, Kenneth R ^b   Jefferis, Barbara J ^a   Hamer, Mark ^a   Tyler, Nick ^c   Wardle, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

behaviour change; habit; older adults; physical activity; Sedentary behaviour

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENERAL PRACTICE; HABIT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTEGRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SITTING; UNITED KINGDOM; WELLBEING; AGE; AGING; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLICATION; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; ENGLAND; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HABITS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAMPHLETS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84907261081     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-15-368     Document Type: Article

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