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  1. Physical Activity Referral Schemes (PARS), including exercise referral schemes, are a popular approach to health improvement, but understanding of effectiveness is limited by considerable heterogeneity in repo...

    Authors: Coral L. Hanson, Emily J. Oliver, Caroline J. Dodd-Reynolds, Alice Pearsons and Paul Kelly
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:158
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  2. The diet of young adults is poor, yet little is known about the relative importance of influences on healthy eating in a decision-making context. The aim of this exploratory study was to understand the relativ...

    Authors: Katherine M. Livingstone, Karen E. Lamb, Gavin Abbott, Tony Worsley and Sarah A. McNaughton
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:157
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  3. The Healthy 4 U-2 study sought to evaluate the effect of a twelve-week, physical activity (PA) coaching intervention for changes and maintenance in PA, anthropometrics and health-related outcomes in adults pre...

    Authors: Stephen Barrett, Stephen Begg, Paul O’Halloran and Michael Kingsley
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:156
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  4. Snack eating occasions contribute approximately a third of children’s energy intake, with approximately half of all unhealthy foods consumed during snack times. Therefore, it is critical to understand the driv...

    Authors: Brittany J. Johnson, Rebecca K. Golley, Dorota Zarnowiecki, Gilly A. Hendrie and Elisabeth K. Huynh
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:155
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  5. Physical activity (PA) declines throughout adolescence, therefore PA promotion during this period is important. We analyzed the effect of two school-based PA interventions on daily PA levels, cardiorespiratory...

    Authors: Elin Kolle, Runar Barstad Solberg, Reidar Säfvenbom, Sindre M. Dyrstad, Sveinung Berntsen, Geir K. Resaland, Ulf Ekelund, Sigmund A. Anderssen, Jostein Steene-Johannessen and May Grydeland
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:154
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  6. Children’s BMI gain accelerates during summer. The Structured Days Hypothesis posits that the lack of the school day during summer vacation negatively impacts children’s obesogenic behaviors (i.e., physical ac...

    Authors: R. Glenn Weaver, Bridget Armstrong, Ethan Hunt, Michael W. Beets, Keith Brazendale, R. Dugger, Gabrielle Turner-McGrievy, Russell R. Pate, Alberto Maydeu-Olivares, Brian Saelens and Shawn D. Youngstedt
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:153
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  7. In 2018, the World Health Organisation (WHO) commenced a program of work to update the 2010 Global Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health, for the first-time providing population-based guidelines on s...

    Authors: Paddy C. Dempsey, Stuart J. H. Biddle, Matthew P. Buman, Sebastien Chastin, Ulf Ekelund, Christine M. Friedenreich, Peter T. Katzmarzyk, Michael F. Leitzmann, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Hidde P. van der Ploeg, Juana Willumsen and Fiona Bull
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:151
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  8. Various physical activity interventions for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis have been designed and evaluated, but the effect of such interventions on the prevention of osteoporosis in older people is ...

    Authors: Marina B. Pinheiro, Juliana Oliveira, Adrian Bauman, Nicola Fairhall, Wing Kwok and Catherine Sherrington
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:150
    Content type: Review Published on:

  9. In this editorial we discuss the new 2020 World Health Organization guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour and a series of related papers that are published simultaneously in IJBNPA. The new g...

    Authors: Hidde P. van der Ploeg and Fiona C. Bull
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:145
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  10. Exercise prevents falls in older adults. Regular updates of estimated effects of exercise on falls are warranted given the number of new trials, the increasing number of older people globally and the major con...

    Authors: Catherine Sherrington, Nicola Fairhall, Wing Kwok, Geraldine Wallbank, Anne Tiedemann, Zoe A. Michaleff, Christopher A. C. M. Ng and Adrian Bauman
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:144
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  11. In July, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) commenced work to update the 2010 Global Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health and established a Guideline Development Group (GDG) comprising expert...

    Authors: Loretta DiPietro, Salih Saad Al-Ansari, Stuart J. H. Biddle, Katja Borodulin, Fiona C. Bull, Matthew P. Buman, Greet Cardon, Catherine Carty, Jean-Philippe Chaput, Sebastien Chastin, Roger Chou, Paddy C. Dempsey, Ulf Ekelund, Joseph Firth, Christine M. Friedenreich, Leandro Garcia…
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:143
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  12. Physical inactivity is a global pandemic associated with a high burden of disease and premature mortality. There is also a trend in growing economic inequalities which impacts population health. There is no gl...

    Authors: Chastin SFM, J. Van Cauwenberg, L. Maenhout, G. Cardon, E. V. Lambert and D. Van Dyck
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:142
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  13. The World Health Organization (WHO) released in 2020 updated global guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour for children, adolescents, adults, older adults and sub-populations such as pregnant ...

    Authors: Jean-Philippe Chaput, Juana Willumsen, Fiona Bull, Roger Chou, Ulf Ekelund, Joseph Firth, Russell Jago, Francisco B. Ortega and Peter T. Katzmarzyk
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:141
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  14. Neurobehavioral factors, including reward-related eating and self-regulation, in conjunction with the food environment, may influence dietary behaviors. However, these constructs have not been examined in preg...

    Authors: Tonja R. Nansel, Leah M. Lipsky, Myles Faith, Aiyi Liu and Anna Maria Siega-Riz
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:149
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  15. Many desk-based workers can spend more than half of their working hours sitting, with low levels of physical activity. Workplace neighbourhood built environment may influence workers’ physical activities and s...

    Authors: Chien-Yu Lin, Mohammad Javad Koohsari, Yung Liao, Kaori Ishii, Ai Shibata, Tomoki Nakaya, Gavin R. McCormack, Nyssa Hadgraft, Neville Owen and Koichiro Oka
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:148
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  16. Positive associations exist between physical activity and happiness in adolescents. However, previous studies have mostly used self-reported measures and cross-sectional designs. There is a need for more insig...

    Authors: Thabo J. van Woudenberg, Kirsten E. Bevelander, William J. Burk and Moniek Buijzen
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:147
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  17. The effectiveness of Front-of-Pack nutrition Labels (FoPLs) may be influenced by national context. In light of the ongoing efforts to harmonize FoPLs across Europe, this study aimed to compare the effectivenes...

    Authors: Manon Egnell, Zenobia Talati, Pilar Galan, Valentina A. Andreeva, Stefanie Vandevijvere, Marion Gombaud, Louise Dréano-Trécant, Serge Hercberg, Simone Pettigrew and Chantal Julia
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:146
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    The Correction to this article has been published in International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:164

  18. Mobile health applications (mHealth apps) targeting physical inactivity have increased in popularity yet are usually limited by low engagement. This study examined the impact of adding team-based incentives (S...

    Authors: Emma Pearson, Harry Prapavessis, Christopher Higgins, Robert Petrella, Lauren White and Marc Mitchell
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:139
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  19. There has been a call to improve measurement rigour and standardization of food parenting practices measures, as well as aligning the measurement of food parenting practices with the parenting literature. Draw...

    Authors: Louise C. Mâsse, Teresia M. O’Connor, Yingyi Lin, Sheryl O. Hughes, Claire N. Tugault-Lafleur, Tom Baranowski and Mark R. Beauchamp
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:140
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  20. Promoting cycling to school may benefit establishing a lifelong physical activity routine. This systematic review aimed to summarize the evidence on strategies and effects of school-based interventions focusin...

    Authors: Dorothea M. I. Schönbach, Teatske M. Altenburg, Adilson Marques, Mai J. M. Chinapaw and Yolanda Demetriou
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:138
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  21. In younger adults (i.e., those < 40 years of age) a walking cadence of 100 steps/min is a consistently supported threshold indicative of absolutely-defined moderate intensity ambulation (i.e., ≥ 3 metabolic eq...

    Authors: Catrine Tudor-Locke, Scott W. Ducharme, Elroy J. Aguiar, John M. Schuna Jr, Tiago V. Barreira, Christopher C. Moore, Colleen J. Chase, Zachary R. Gould, Marcos A. Amalbert-Birriel, Jose Mora-Gonzalez, Stuart R. Chipkin and John Staudenmayer
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:137
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  22. Organic food (OF) consumption has substantially increased in high income countries, mostly driven by environmental concerns and health beliefs. Lower exposure to synthetic pesticides has been systematically do...

    Authors: Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot, Pauline Rebouillat, Laurence Payrastre, Benjamin Allès, Léopold K. Fezeu, Nathalie Druesne-Pecollo, Bernard Srour, Wei Bao, Mathilde Touvier, Pilar Galan, Serge Hercberg, Denis Lairon and Julia Baudry
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:136
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  23. The World Health Organization (WHO) released the 2020 global guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour. The new guidelines contain a significant change from the 2010 guidelines on physical activi...

    Authors: Michelle L. Segar, Marta M. Marques, Antonio L. Palmeira and Anthony D. Okely
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:135
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  24. Many tools have been developed to measure physical activity parenting practices (PAPP). Currently, there is little standardization on how PAPP constructs are operationalized for 5–12 year-old children. Given t...

    Authors: Louise C. Mâsse, Teresia M. O’Connor, Yingyi Lin, Nicole S. Carbert, Sheryl O. Hughes, Tom Baranowski and Mark R. Beauchamp
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:134
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  25. Sedentary time is associated with chronic disease and premature mortality. We tested a multilevel workplace intervention with and without sit-stand workstations to reduce sedentary time and lower cardiometabol...

    Authors: Mark A. Pereira, Sarah L. Mullane, Meynard John Lapore Toledo, Miranda L. Larouche, Sarah A. Rydell, Brenna Vuong, Linda H. Feltes, Nathan R. Mitchell, Junia N. de Brito, Kristina Hasanaj, Neil G. Carlson, Glenn A. Gaesser, Noe C. Crespo, J. Michael Oakes and Matthew P. Buman
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:133
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  26. The development of empirically-grounded policies to change the obesogenic nature of urban environment has been impeded by limited, inconclusive evidence of the link between food environments, dietary behaviors...

    Authors: Shin Bin Tan and Mariana Arcaya
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:132
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  27. The aim of this study was to gain consensus on an evidence informed physical activity policy template for early childhood education and care (ECEC) and determine best-practice dissemination and implementation ...

    Authors: Hayley E. Christian, Donna Cross, Michael Rosenberg, Jasper Schipperijn, Trevor Shilton, Georgina Trapp, Stewart G. Trost, Andrea Nathan, Clover Maitland, Ashleigh Thornton, Elizabeth J. Wenden and Phoebe George
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:131
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  28. Early adulthood is a period of rapid personal development when individuals experience major life transitions (e.g. leaving the parental home, leaving education, beginning employment, cohabitation and parenthoo...

    Authors: Eleanor M. Winpenny, Megan R. Winkler, Jan Stochl, Esther M. F. van Sluijs, Nicole Larson and Dianne Neumark-Sztainer
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:130
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  29. Step-count monitors (pedometers, body-worn trackers and smartphone applications) can increase walking, helping to tackle physical inactivity. We aimed to assess the effect of step-count monitors on physical ac...

    Authors: Umar A. R. Chaudhry, Charlotte Wahlich, Rebecca Fortescue, Derek G. Cook, Rachel Knightly and Tess Harris
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:129
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  30. Exercise has emerged as a promising therapy for people with cancer. Novel programs have been developed to translate research into practice; however, implementation barriers have limited their success in part b...

    Authors: Mary A. Kennedy, Sara Bayes, Robert U. Newton, Yvonne Zissiadis, Nigel A. Spry, Dennis R. Taaffe, Nicolas H. Hart, Michael Davis, Aileen Eiszele and Daniel A. Galvão
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:128
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  31. E- and m-health interventions are promising to change health behaviour. Many of these interventions use a large variety of behaviour change techniques (BCTs), but it’s not known which BCTs or which combination...

    Authors: Helene Schroé, Delfien Van Dyck, Annick De Paepe, Louise Poppe, Wen Wei Loh, Maïté Verloigne, Tom Loeys, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij and Geert Crombez
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:127
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  32. Researchers applying compositional data analysis to time-use data (e.g., time spent in physical behaviors) often face the problem of zeros, that is, recordings of zero time spent in any of the studied behavior...

    Authors: Charlotte Lund Rasmussen, Javier Palarea-Albaladejo, Melker Staffan Johansson, Patrick Crowley, Matthew Leigh Stevens, Nidhi Gupta, Kristina Karstad and Andreas Holtermann
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:126
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  33. Characteristics of the neighborhood built environment are associated with physical activity (PA). However, few studies with representative samples have examined environmental correlates of domain-specific PA i...

    Authors: Gerson Ferrari, André Oliveira Werneck, Danilo Rodrigues da Silva, Irina Kovalskys, Georgina Gómez, Attilio Rigotti, Lilia Yadira Cortés Sanabria, Martha Yépez García, Rossina G. Pareja, Marianella Herrera-Cuenca, Ioná Zalcman Zimberg, Viviana Guajardo, Michael Pratt, Carlos Cristi-Montero, Fernando Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Adilson Marques…
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:125
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  34. Literature focusing on youth has reported limited evidence and non-conclusive associations between neighborhood walkability measures and active commuting to and from school (ACS). Moreover, there is a lack of ...

    Authors: Javier Molina-García, Sergio Campos, Xavier García-Massó, Manuel Herrador-Colmenero, Patricia Gálvez-Fernández, Daniel Molina-Soberanes, Ana Queralt and Palma Chillón
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:124
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  35. Investigation of physical activity and dietary behaviors across locations can inform “setting-specific” health behavior interventions and improve understanding of contextual vulnerabilities to poor health. Thi...

    Authors: Adrian Ortega, Carolina M. Bejarano, Christopher C. Cushing, Vincent S. Staggs, Amy E. Papa, Chelsea Steel, Robin P. Shook, Debra K. Sullivan, Sarah C. Couch, Terry L. Conway, Brian E. Saelens, Karen Glanz, Lawrence D. Frank, Kelli L. Cain, Jacqueline Kerr, Jasper Schipperijn…
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:123
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  36. This meta-analysis evaluated the safety, feasibility and effect of exercise among individuals with colorectal cancer.

    Authors: Benjamin Singh, Sandra C. Hayes, Rosalind R. Spence, Megan L. Steele, Guillaume Y. Millet and Laurent Gergele
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:122
    Content type: Review Published on:

  37. Garden-based interventions show promise for improving not only child nutrition, but other indicators of child health. Yet, existing systematic reviews of garden-based interventions often focus on one particula...

    Authors: Kara R. Skelton, Chenery Lowe, Daniel A. Zaltz and Sara E. Benjamin-Neelon
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:121
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  38. This study assessed the feasibility and acceptability of FRESH (Families Reporting Every Step to Health), a theory-based child-led family physical activity (PA) intervention delivered online. We also assessed ...

    Authors: Justin M. Guagliano, Sofie M. Armitage, Helen Elizabeth Brown, Emma Coombes, Francesco Fusco, Claire Hughes, Andrew P. Jones, Katie L. Morton and Esther M. F. van Sluijs
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:120
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  39. Cardiovascular implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) with physical activity (PA) recording function can continuously and automatically collect patients’ long-term PA data. The dose-response association of imp...

    Authors: Xiaoyao Li, Shuang Zhao, Keping Chen, Wei Hua, Yangang Su, Jiefu Yang, Zhaoguang Liang, Wei Xu and Shu Zhang
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:119
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  40. The food stores within residential environments are increasingly investigated as a possible mechanism driving food behaviours and health outcomes. Whilst increased emphasis is being placed on the type of study...

    Authors: Lukar E. Thornton, Karen E. Lamb and Simon R. White
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:118
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  41. There is increasing concern about the time people spend in sedentary behaviour, including screen time, leisure and occupational sitting. The number of both primary research studies (published trials) and revie...

    Authors: Phuong Nguyen, Long Khanh-Dao Le, Dieu Nguyen, Lan Gao, David W. Dunstan and Marj Moodie
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:117
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  42. Evidence on current, national physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviour (SB) policies is limited. We, therefore, analysed availability, comprehensiveness, implementation, and effectiveness of PA and SB po...

    Authors: Bojana Klepac Pogrmilovic, Andrea Ramirez Varela, Michael Pratt, Karen Milton, Adrian Bauman, Stuart J. H. Biddle and Zeljko Pedisic
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:116
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  43. Fiscal policies are used to promote a healthier diet; however, there is still a call for real-world evaluations of taxes on unhealthy foods and beverages. We aimed to evaluate the effect of an abrupt increase,...

    Authors: Bente Øvrebø, Torleif B. Halkjelsvik, Jørgen R. Meisfjord, Elling Bere and Rannveig K. Hart
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:115
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  44. Physical activity and sedentary behavior are related with psycho-social variables among youth, however its relationship with bullying victimization is unclear. The aim of the study was to clarify the associati...

    Authors: Antonio García-Hermoso, Ignacio Hormazabal-Aguayo, Xavier Oriol-Granado, Omar Fernández-Vergara and Borja del Pozo Cruz
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:114
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  45. Insufficient physical activity is a global public health concern. Research indicates incentives can increase physical activity levels of children but has not tested whether incentives targeted at children can ...

    Authors: Eric Andrew Finkelstein, Robyn Su May Lim, Dianne Stanton Ward and Kelly R. Evenson
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:113
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  46. This individual patient data (IPD) meta-analysis aimed to investigate socioeconomic inequalities in effectiveness on healthy behavior of, and compliance to, workplace health promotion programs.

    Authors: Pieter Coenen, Suzan J. W. Robroek, Allard J. van der Beek, Cécile R. L. Boot, Frank J. van Lenthe, Alex Burdorf and Karen M. Oude Hengel
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:112
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  47. Prolonged sitting time is a risk factor for chronic disease, yet recent global surveillance is not well described. The aims were to clarify: (i) the countries that have collected country-level data on self-rep...

    Authors: M. Mclaughlin, A. J. Atkin, L. Starr, A. Hall, L. Wolfenden, R. Sutherland, J. Wiggers, A. Ramirez, P. Hallal, M. Pratt, B. M. Lynch and K. Wijndaele
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:111
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  48. Mothers from socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods are at elevated risk of physical inactivity and high levels of screen time. Yet, little is known regarding the social ecological factors that are lon...

    Authors: Kylie A. Morris, Lauren Arundell, Verity Cleland and Megan Teychenne
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:110
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  49. This study aims to investigate the relationship between post-diagnosis physical activity and mortality in patients with selected noncommunicable diseases, including breast cancer, lung cancer, type 2 diabetes,...

    Authors: Wolfgang Geidl, Sabrina Schlesinger, Eriselda Mino, Lorena Miranda and Klaus Pfeifer
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:109
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  50. Evaluation of physical activity interventions is vital to inform, and justify, evidence-based policy and practice to support population-wide changes in physical activity. Several evaluation frameworks and guid...

    Authors: Judith F. Fynn, Wendy Hardeman, Karen Milton, Joseph Murphy and Andy Jones
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:107
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