Efficacy and causal mechanism of an online social media intervention to increase physical activity: Results of a randomized controlled trial

Preventive Medicine Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages 651-657

  Zhang, Jingwen ^a   Brackbill, Devon ^a   Yang, Sijia ^a   Centola, Damon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise; Internet; Network; Randomized controlled trial; Social media

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GRADUATE STUDENT; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; ONLINE SYSTEM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SELF REPORT; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84939788486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22113355     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2015.08.005     Document Type: Article

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