Educational interventions to promote healthy nutrition and physical activity among older Chinese Americans: A cluster-randomized trial

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1092-1098

  Jih, Jane ^a   Le, Gem ^a   Woo, Kent ^b   Tsoh, Janice Y ^a   Stewart, Susan ^c   Gildengorin, Ginny ^a   Burke, Adam ^d   Wong, Ching ^a   Chan, Elaine ^b   Fung, Lei Chun ^e   Yu, Filmer ^a   Pasick, Rena ^a   McPhee, Stephen J ^a   Nguyen, Tung T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NICOS Chinese Health Coalition ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e San Francisco University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN AMERICAN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRUIT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MODEL; ODDS RATIO; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VEGETABLE; CALIFORNIA; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FRUIT; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; SAN FRANCISCO; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; VEGETABLES;

EID: 84968754223     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303111     Document Type: Article

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