Individual, social and environmental correlates of physical activity in overweight and obese African American and Hispanic women: A structural equation model analysis

Preventive Medicine Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages 57-64

  Mama, Scherezade K ^a,b,c   Diamond, Pamela M ^b   McCurdy, Sheryl A ^b   Evans, Alexandra E ^b   McNeill, Lorna H ^a   Lee, Rebecca E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adults; Body image; Environment design; Exercise; Minority health; Social environment

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETRY; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY IMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NEIGHBORHOOD; OBESITY; PEDESTRIAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL INACTIVITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84922706992     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22113355     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2015.01.001     Document Type: Article

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