"It is our exercise family": Experiences of ethnic older adults in a group-based exercise program

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Chiang, Kuan Chun ^a   Seman, Leslie ^a   Belza, Basia ^a   Tsai, Jenny Hsin Chun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHNIC GROUPS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84978966852     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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