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  1. Adaptations for scale-up are ubiquitous but are rarely described in detail. Adaptations may be a key reason for the “scale-up penalty” which is when there is a reduction in intervention effect size following s...

    Authors: Matthew Mclaughlin, Andrea Nathan, Ashleigh Thornton, Jasper Schipperijn, Stewart G. Trost and Hayley Christian
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:65
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  2. There is limited evidence on what shapes the acceptability of population level dietary and active-travel policies in England. This information would be useful in the decision-making process about which policie...

    Authors: Z Toumpakari, S. Valerino-Perea, K. Willis, J. Adams, M. White, M. Vasiljevic, L. Ternent, J. Brown, M. P. Kelly, C. Bonell, S. Cummins, A Majeed, S. Anderson, T. Robinson, V. Araujo-Soares, J. Watson…
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:64
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  3. Transport-related physical activity (TRPA) is recognised as a potential means of increasing total physical activity participation that may yield substantial health benefits. Public health campaigns focusing on...

    Authors: Jack T. Evans, Marie-Jeanne Buscot, Seana Gall, Terence Dwyer, Alison Venn and Verity Cleland
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:63
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  4. As childhood obesity rates continue to rise, health organizations have called for regulations that protect children from exposure to unhealthy food marketing. In this study, we evaluate the impact of child-bas...

    Authors: Francesca R. Dillman Carpentier, Fernanda Mediano Stoltze, Marcela Reyes, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Camila Corvalán and Teresa Correa
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:62
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  5. The World Health Organization recommends that member states enact policies to limit unhealthy food marketing to children. Chile enacted relatively stringent laws that restrict unhealthy food marketing to child...

    Authors: Dana Lee Olstad and Emma Boyland
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:61
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  6. Overconsumption is one of the most serious public health challenges in the UK and has been linked to increased consumption of food ordered through delivery platforms. This study tested whether repositioning fo...

    Authors: Filippo Bianchi, Madison Luick, Lauren Bandy, Jonathan Bone, Stefan Kelly, James Farrington, Jovita Leung, Abigail Mottershow, Filip Murar, Susan A. Jebb, Hugo Harper and Rachel Pechey
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:60
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  7. Research on the association of physical activity and sedentary time with dementia is accumulating, though elusive, and the interaction effects of the two remain unclear. We analysed the joint associations of a...

    Authors: Qi Zhong, Rui Zhou, Yi-Ning Huang, Hao-Wen Chen, Hua-Min Liu, Zhiwei Huang, Zelin Yuan, Keyi Wu, Bi-Fei Cao, Kuan Liu, Wei-Dong Fan, Yong-Qi Liang and Xian-Bo Wu
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:59
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  8. Studies of the associations between soft drinks and the risk of cancer showed inconsistent results. No previous published systematic reviews and meta-analysis has investigated a dose–response association betwe...

    Authors: Bei Pan, Honghao Lai, Ning Ma, Dan Li, Xiyuan Deng, Xiaoman Wang, Qian Zhang, Qiuyu Yang, Qi Wang, Hongfei Zhu, Mengting Li, Xiao Cao, Jinhui Tian, Long Ge and Kehu Yang
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:58
    Content type: Review Published on:

  9. Inference using standard linear regression models (LMs) relies on assumptions that are rarely satisfied in practice. Substantial departures, if not addressed, have serious impacts on any inference and conclusi...

    Authors: Muhammad Akram, Ester Cerin, Karen E. Lamb and Simon R. White
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:57
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  10. Pricing policies have been shown to be an effective lever for promoting healthier dietary choices in consumer food environments. It is not yet well understood how pricing can be used to encourage healthier sub...

    Authors: Catherine L. Mah, Laura Kennedy, Nathan G. A. Taylor, Taylor Nicholson, Emily Jago and Brenda MacDonald
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:56
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  11. Nutrition facts tables (NFTs) on pre-packaged foods are widely used but poorly understood by consumers. Several countries have implemented front-of-package labels (FOPLs) that provide simpler, easier to use nu...

    Authors: David Hammond, Rachel B. Acton, Vicki L. Rynard, Christine M. White, Lana Vanderlee, Jasmin Bhawra, Marcela Reyes, Alejandra Jáuregui, Jean Adams, Christina A. Roberto, Gary Sacks and James F. Thrasher
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:55
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  12. Authors: Michael P. R. Sheldrick, Nils J. Swindell, Amie B. Richards, Stuart J. Fairclough and Gareth Stratton
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:54
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2022 19:134

  13. Reducing portion sizes of commercially available foods could be an effective public health strategy to reduce population energy intake, but recent research suggests that the effect portion size has on energy i...

    Authors: Tess Langfield, Katie Clarke, Lucile Marty, Andrew Jones and Eric Robinson
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:53
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  14. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in marked impacts on children’s physical activity, with large reductions in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) reported during lockdowns. Previous evidence showed ...

    Authors: Russell Jago, Ruth Salway, Danielle House, Robert Walker, Lydia Emm-Collison, Kate Sansum, Katie Breheny, Tom Reid, Sarah Churchward, Joanna G. Williams, Charlie Foster, William Hollingworth and Frank de Vocht
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:42
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  15. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommend that preschool-aged children should engage in 180 min of total physical activity (TPA) including 60 min of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) each day. ...

    Authors: Matthew Bourke, Ameena Haddara, Aidan Loh, Valerie Carson, Becky Breau and Patricia Tucker
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:52
    Content type: Review Published on:

  16. In recent reviews of available measures, no existing measures assessed all four pillars of food security and most only assessed one or two pillars–predominantly the access pillar. The purpose of this study was...

    Authors: Eric E. Calloway, Leah R. Carpenter, Tony Gargano, Julia L. Sharp and Amy L. Yaroch
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:51
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  17. Physical activity (PA) is beneficial for older adults’ health, however they remain the least active age group in the UK. This qualitative longitudinal study aims to understand motivations in older adults recei...

    Authors: Rosina Cross, Colin Greaves, Janet Withall, Marlene Kritz and Afroditi Stathi
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:50
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  18. Using infrared counters is a promising unobtrusive method of assessing footfall in urban parks. However, infrared counters are susceptible to reliability and validity issues, and there is limited guidance for ...

    Authors: D. J. Ryan and J. S. Benton
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:49
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  19. The failure to scale-up and implement physical activity (PA) interventions in real world contexts, which were previously successful under controlled conditions, may be attributed to the different criteria of s...

    Authors: Mirko Brandes, Berit Brandes, Louisa Sell, Jennifer M. Sacheck, Mai Chinapaw, David R. Lubans, Alexander Woll, Jasper Schipperijn, Russell Jago and Heide Busse
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:48
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  20. Depressive symptoms result in considerable burden for breast cancer survivors. Increased physical activity may reduce these burdens but existing evidence from physical activity interventions in equivocal. Furt...

    Authors: Chad D. Rethorst, Thomas J. Carmody, Keith E. Argenbright, Taryn L. Mayes, Heidi A. Hamann and Madhukar H. Trivedi
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:47
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  21. Policy interventions to increase physical activity in early childhood education and care (ECEC) services are effective in increasing physical activity among young children. However, a large proportion of ECEC ...

    Authors: Emma K. Adams, Andrea Nathan, Stewart G. Trost, Jasper Schipperijn, Trevor Shilton, Georgina Trapp, Clover Maitland, Ashleigh Thornton, Matthew Mclaughlin, Phoebe George, Elizabeth Wenden and Hayley Christian
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:46
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  22. Unhealthy lifestyle behaviours are becoming increasingly common and might contribute to the growing burden of mental disorders in adolescence. We examined the associations between a comprehensive set of lifest...

    Authors: Julia Dabravolskaj, Paul J. Veugelers, Angelica Amores, Scott T. Leatherdale, Karen A. Patte and Katerina Maximova
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:45
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  23. Promoting physical activity (PA) in different populations experiencing sleep disturbance may increase population PA levels and improve sleep. This scoping review aimed to examine the effect of various PA inter...

    Authors: Hung-Hsin Huang, Brendon Stubbs, Li-Jung Chen, Po-Wen Ku, Tai-Yi Hsu, Chia-Wei Lin, Yi-Ming Weng and Shih-Hao Wu
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:44
    Content type: Review Published on:

  24. Research shows that inactive young women are attracted to using mobile phone applications (apps) to increase physical activity. Apps can promote physical activity by delivering a range of behaviour change tech...

    Authors: Mollie M. Tobin, Tamara L. Jones, Yui Sum Haylie Ho and Camille E. Short
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:43
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  25. Healthy lifestyle habits are recommended in prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, there is limited knowledge concerning the change in lifestyle-related factors from before to after a CVD event. ...

    Authors: Amanda Lönn, Lena V. Kallings, Gunnar Andersson, Sofia Paulsson, Peter Wallin, Jane Salier Eriksson and Elin Ekblom-Bak
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:41
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  26. In June 2016, a comprehensive food policy was implemented in Chile that included front-of-package warning labels on key nutrients of concern (total sugars, added saturated fats, sodium, and calories), child-di...

    Authors: Gabriela Fretes, Camila Corvalán, Marcela Reyes, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Christina D. Economos, Norbert L.W. Wilson and Sean B. Cash
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:40
    Content type: Research Published on:

  27. Parental feeding practices (PFPs) have been implicated in the development of children’s eating behaviours. However, evidence suggests that feeding practices may also develop in response to their child’s weight...

    Authors: Alice R. Kininmonth, Moritz Herle, Kristiane Tommerup, Emma Haycraft, Claire Farrow, Helen Croker, Abigail Pickard, Katie Edwards, Jacqueline Blissett and Clare Llewellyn
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:39
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  28. In many Westernised countries, children do not consume a sufficient amount of vegetables for optimal health and development. Child-feeding guidelines have been produced to address this, but often only promote ...

    Authors: Chris J. McLeod, Emma Haycraft and Amanda J. Daley
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:38
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  29. A healthy lifestyle program that appeals to, and supports, overweight and obese New Zealand (NZ) European, Māori (indigenous) and Pasifika men to achieve weight loss is urgently needed. A pilot program inspire...

    Authors: Ralph Maddison, Elaine Anne Hargreaves, Yannan Jiang, Amanda Jane Calder, Sally Wyke, Cindy M. Gray, Kate Hunt, David Revalds Lubans, Helen Eyles, Nick Draper, Ihirangi Heke, Stephen Kara, Gerhard Sundborn, Claire Arandjus, Lan Gao, Peter Lee…
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:37
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  30. Digital interventions may help address low vegetable intake in adults, however there is limited understanding of the features that make them effective. We systematically reviewed digital interventions to incre...

    Authors: Katherine M. Livingstone, Jonathan C. Rawstorn, Stephanie R. Partridge, Stephanie L. Godrich, Sarah A. McNaughton, Gilly A. Hendrie, Lauren C. Blekkenhorst, Ralph Maddison, Yuxin Zhang, Scott Barnett, John C. Mathers, Maria Packard and Laura Alston
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:36
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  31. Over the last decade use of raw acceleration metrics to assess physical activity has increased. Metrics such as Euclidean Norm Minus One (ENMO), and Mean Amplitude Deviation (MAD) can be used to generate metri...

    Authors: Stuart J. Fairclough, Alex V. Rowlands, Borja del Pozo Cruz, Matteo Crotti, Lawrence Foweather, Lee E. F. Graves, Liezel Hurter, Owen Jones, Mhairi MacDonald, Deborah A. McCann, Caitlin Miller, Robert J. Noonan, Michael B. Owen, James R. Rudd, Sarah L. Taylor, Richard Tyler…
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:35
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  32. Toward development of a core outcome set for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of physical activity (PA) interventions for older adults, the purpose of this study was to identify outcome domains and subdomai...

    Authors: Dawn C. Mackey, Christina L. Ekegren, Claire Baldwin, Peter J. Young, Samantha M. Gray, Alex Ciok and Angela Wong
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:34
    Content type: Review Published on:

  33. Widespread establishment of home-based healthy energy balance-related behaviors (EBRBs), like diet, physical activity, sedentary behavior, screen time, and sleep, among low-income preschool-aged children could...

    Authors: Sarah L. Ullevig, Deborah Parra-Medina, Yuanyuan Liang, Jeffrey Howard, Erica Sosa, Vanessa M. Estrada-Coats, Vanessa Errisuriz, Shiyu Li and Zenong Yin
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:33
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  34. Instilling healthy dietary habits and active play in early childhood is an important public health focus. Interventions supporting the establishment of nutrition and active play behaviours in the first years o...

    Authors: Rivka Gelman, Jillian Whelan, Sheree Spiteri, Danijela Duric, Winnie Oakhill, Samuel Cassar and Penelope Love
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:32
    Content type: Review Published on:

  35. A step cadence of 100 steps/minute is widely used to define moderate-intensity walking. However, the generalizability of this threshold to different populations needs further research. We investigate moderate-...

    Authors: T. Yates, J Henson, P. McBride, B Maylor, L. Y. Herring, J. A. Sargeant, M. J. Davies, P. C. Dempsey, A. V. Rowlands and C. L. Edwardson
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:31
    Content type: Short paper Published on:

  36. Weather is a potentially important influence on how time is allocated to sleep, sedentary behaviour and physical activity across the 24-h day. Extremes of weather (very hot, cold, windy or wet) can create unde...

    Authors: Ty Ferguson, Rachel Curtis, Francois Fraysse, Timothy Olds, Dorothea Dumuid, Wendy Brown, Adrian Esterman and Carol Maher
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:30
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  37. Schools provide opportunities to improve the quality of children's diet, whilst reducing inequalities in childhood diet and health. Evidence supports whole school approaches, including consistency in food qual...

    Authors: Maria Bryant, Wendy Burton, Niamh O’Kane, Jayne V. Woodside, Sara Ahern, Phillip Garnett, Suzanne Spence, Amir Sharif, Harry Rutter, Tim Baker and Charlotte E. L. Evans
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:29
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  38. Ontologies are a formal way to represent knowledge in a particular field and have the potential to transform the field of health promotion and digital interventions. However, few researchers in physical activity ...

    Authors: Maya Braun, Stéphanie Carlier, Femke De Backere, Annick De Paepe, Marie Van De Velde, Delfien Van Dyck, Marta M. Marques, Filip De Turck and Geert Crombez
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:28
    Content type: Review Published on:

  39. Insufficient physical activity (PA) levels among adolescents and adults make promoting PA a public health priority. Although most people exhibit low or decreasing levels of PA, other groups increase or maintai...

    Authors: Frida Kathrine Sofie Mathisen, Torbjørn Torsheim, Coral Falco and Bente Wold
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:27
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  40. Accelerometer measures of physical behaviours (physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep) in observational studies offer detailed insight into associations with health and disease. Maximising recruitmen...

    Authors: Richard M. Pulsford, Laura Brocklebank, Sally A. M. Fenton, Esmée Bakker, Gregore I. Mielke, Li-Tang Tsai, Andrew J. Atkin, Danielle L. Harvey, Joanna M. Blodgett, Matthew Ahmadi, Le Wei, Alex Rowlands, Aiden Doherty, Vegar Rangul, Annemarie Koster, Lauren B. Sherar…
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:26
    Content type: Review Published on:

  41. There are few community-based lifestyle interventions designed to target physical and mental health of men. We conducted a qualitative focus group study with men to explore their perceived barriers and facilit...

    Authors: Oliver J. Bell, Darren Flynn, Tom Clifford, Daniel West, Emma Stevenson and Leah Avery
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:25
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  42. For adults, vacations represent a break from daily responsibilities of work – offering the opportunity to re-distribute time between sleep, sedentary behaviour, light physical activity (LPA) and moderate-to-vi...

    Authors: Ty Ferguson, Rachel Curtis, Francois Fraysse, Timothy Olds, Dorothea Dumuid, Wendy Brown, Adrian Esterman and Carol Maher
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:24
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  43. Physical activity (PA) has many benefits in preventing diseases and maintaining physical and mental health. Women, in particular, can benefit from regular PA. However, women’s PA did not increase over the past...

    Authors: Bo Peng, Johan Y. Y. Ng and Amy S. Ha
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:23
    Content type: Review Published on:

  44. Childhood overweight and obesity is a public health priority. We have previously reported the efficacy of a parent-oriented mobile health (mHealth) app-based intervention (MINISTOP 1.0) which showed improvemen...

    Authors: Christina Alexandrou, Hanna Henriksson, Maria Henström, Pontus Henriksson, Christine Delisle Nyström, Marcus Bendtsen and Marie Löf
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:22
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  45. The physical literacy (PL) concept integrates different personal (e.g., physical, cognitive, psychological/affective, social) determinants of physical activity and has received growing attention recently. Alth...

    Authors: Johannes Carl, Jaime Barratt, Kelly P. Arbour-Nicitopoulos, Lisa M. Barnett, Dean A. Dudley, Peter Holler, Richard Keegan, Matthew Kwan, Raffaele Scurati, Raymond Kim-Wai Sum, Nalda Wainwright and John Cairney
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:21
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  46. Adoption of health-enabling food retail interventions in food retail will require effective implementation strategies. To inform this, we applied an implementation framework to a novel real-world food retail i...

    Authors: Julie Brimblecombe, Bethany Miles, Emma Chappell, Khia De Silva, Megan Ferguson, Catherine Mah, Eddie Miles, Anthony Gunther, Thomas Wycherley, Anna Peeters, Leia Minaker and Emma McMahon
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:20
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  47. There is a substantial body of research on children’s eating behaviours (e.g., food responsiveness and fussiness) and related constructs (e.g., eating in the absence of hunger, appetite self-regulation). This ...

    Authors: Alan Russell, Elena Jansen, Alissa J. Burnett, Jookyeong Lee and Catherine G. Russell
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:19
    Content type: Review Published on:

  48. The epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a growing concern worldwide and Singapore is no exception to this global trend. As part of measures to address this concern, the Singapore government will im...

    Authors: Soye Shin, Jyotika Puri and Eric Finkelstein
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:18
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  49. Current literature reports a gap between development of effective interventions to promote physical activity and the systematic uptake into real-world settings. Factors relating to implementation and scale-up ...

    Authors: Joey Murphy, Fiona Mansergh, Grainne O’Donoghue, Femke van Nassau, Jemima Cooper, Caera Grady, Niamh Murphy, Enrique Garcia Bengoechea, Marie H. Murphy, Benny Cullen and Catherine B. Woods
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:16
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  50. Preliminary evidence suggests that web-based physical activity interventions with tailored advice and Fitbit integration are effective and may be well suited to older adults. Therefore, this study aimed to exa...

    Authors: Stephanie J. Alley, Stephanie Schoeppe, Quyen G. To, Lynne Parkinson, Jannique van Uffelen, Susan Hunt, Mitch J. Duncan, Anthony Schneiders and Corneel Vandelanotte
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2023 20:15
    Content type: Research Published on:
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