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  1. Many studies used the older ActiGraph (7164) for physical activity measurement, but this model has been replaced with newer ones (e.g., GT3X+). The assumption that new generation models are more accurate has b...

    Authors: Kelli L Cain, Terry L Conway, Marc A Adams, Lisa E Husak and James F Sallis
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:51
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  2. Much research has been conducted into the determinants of physical activity (PA) participation among adolescent girls. However, the more specific question of what are the determinants of particular forms of PA...

    Authors: Rochelle M Eime, Jack T Harvey, Melinda J Craike, Caroline M Symons and Warren R Payne
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:50
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  3. An evidence-based steps/day translation of U.S. federal guidelines for youth to engage in ≥60 minutes/day of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) would help health researchers, practitioners, and lay ...

    Authors: Marc A Adams, William D Johnson and Catrine Tudor-Locke
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:49
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  4. Physical activity is considered as a major component of a healthy lifestyle. However, few studies have examined the relationships between the spatial accessibility to sport facilities and sport practice with a...

    Authors: Noëlla Karusisi, Frédérique Thomas, Julie Méline and Basile Chaix
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:48
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  5. Intensive lifestyle interventions in well-controlled settings are effective in lowering the risk of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and cardiovascular diseases (CVD), but there are still no eff...

    Authors: Jeroen Lakerveld, Sandra D Bot, Mai J Chinapaw, Maurits W van Tulder, Piet J Kostense, Jacqueline M Dekker and Giel Nijpels
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:47
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  6. Food retail studies have focused on the availability of food stores, and on disparities in food access by neighborhood race and income level. Previous research does not address possible changes in local food e...

    Authors: Susan Filomena, Kathleen Scanlin and Kimberly B Morland
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:46
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  7. Obesity has been increasing in adolescents in Fiji and obesogenic dietary patterns need to be assessed to inform health promotion. The objective of this study was to identify the dietary patterns of adolescent...

    Authors: Jillian T Wate, Wendy Snowdon, Lynne Millar, Melanie Nichols, Helen Mavoa, Ramneek Goundar, Ateca Kama and Boyd Swinburn
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:45
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  8. We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a community-wide campaign (CWC) for promoting physical activity in middle-aged and elderly people.

    Authors: Masamitsu Kamada, Jun Kitayuguchi, Shigeru Inoue, Yoshiki Ishikawa, Hiromu Nishiuchi, Shimpei Okada, Kazuhiro Harada, Hiroharu Kamioka and Kuninori Shiwaku
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:44
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  9. Consumption of non-core foods in childhood is associated with excessive weight gain in childhood. Parents play a vital role in establishing healthy diet behaviours in young children. The aim of this study was ...

    Authors: Amanda Fletcher, Luke Wolfenden, Rebecca Wyse, Jenny Bowman, Patrick McElduff and Sarah Duncan
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:43
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  10. The COMPASS study is designed to follow a cohort of ~30,000 grade 9 to 12 students attending ~60 secondary schools for four years to understand how changes in school characteristics (policies, programs, built ...

    Authors: Scott T Leatherdale and Rachel E Laxer
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:42
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  11. Use multidimensional polytomous item response modeling (MPIRM) to evaluate the psychometric properties of a television (TV) parenting practices (PP) instrument. Perform differential item functioning (DIF) anal...

    Authors: Tzu-An Chen, Teresia M O’Connor, Sheryl O Hughes, Leslie Frankel, Janice Baranowski, Jason A Mendoza, Debbe Thompson and Tom Baranowski
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:41
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  12. Intensive diet and physical activity interventions have been found to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, but are resource intensive. The American Heart Association recently recommended motivational inte...

    Authors: Sarah J Hardcastle, Adrian H Taylor, Martin P Bailey, Robert A Harley and Martin S Hagger
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:40
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  13. Physical activity is important to children’s physical health and well-being. Many factors contribute to children’s physical activity, and the built environment has garnered considerable interest recently, as m...

    Authors: Karyn A Tappe, Karen Glanz, James F Sallis, Chuan Zhou and Brian E Saelens
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:39
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  14. Among Belgian adolescents active transport (AT) is a common physical activity (PA) behavior. Preliminary evidence suggests that AT can be an important opportunity for increasing adolescents’ daily PA levels. T...

    Authors: Femke De Meester, Delfien Van Dyck, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Benedicte Deforche and Greet Cardon
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:38
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  15. The objective of this study was to identify 10-year longitudinal predictors of overweight incidence during the transition from adolescence to young adulthood.

    Authors: Virginia Quick, Melanie Wall, Nicole Larson, Jess Haines and Dianne Neumark-Sztainer
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:37
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  16. Various diet- and activity-related parenting practices are positive determinants of child dietary and activity behaviour, including home availability, parental modelling and parental policies. There is evidenc...

    Authors: Gerda Rodenburg, Anke Oenema, Stef PJ Kremers and Dike van de Mheen
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:36
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  17. The editors of International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 9 (2012).

    Authors: Frank van Lenthe
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:32
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  18. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between the perceived environment and the use of public open spaces (POS).

    Authors: Rogério César Fermino, Rodrigo Siqueira Reis, Pedro Curi Hallal and José Cazuza de Farias Júnior
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:35
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  19. Neighborhood environment studies of physical activity (PA) have been mainly single-country focused. The International Prevalence Study (IPS) presented a rare opportunity to examine neighborhood features across...

    Authors: Marc A Adams, Ding Ding, James F Sallis, Heather R Bowles, Barbara E Ainsworth, Patrick Bergman, Fiona C Bull, Harriette Carr, Cora L Craig, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Luis Fernando Gomez, Maria Hagströmer, Lena Klasson-Heggebø, Shigeru Inoue, Johan Lefevre, Duncan J Macfarlane…
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:34
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  20. This study describes the development of a social marketing campaign for increasing walking in a low income, high crime community as part of the Positive Action for Today’s Health (PATH) trial.

    Authors: Dawn K Wilson, Sara M St George, Nevelyn N Trumpeter, Sandra M Coulon, Sarah F Griffin, Abe Wandersman, Melinda Forthofer, Barney Gadson and Porschia V Brown
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:33
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  21. Many children spend too much time screen-viewing (watching TV, surfing the internet and playing video games) and do not meet physical activity (PA) guidelines. Parents are important influences on children’s PA...

    Authors: Russell Jago, Simon J Sebire, Katrina M Turner, Georgina F Bentley, Joanna K Goodred, Kenneth R Fox, Sarah Stewart-Brown and Patricia J Lucas
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:31
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  22. Reducing sedentary time and increasing lifestyle activities, including light-intensity activity, may be an option to help prevent metabolic syndrome (MetS). The purpose of the present study was to examine whet...

    Authors: Junghoon Kim, Kai Tanabe, Noriko Yokoyama, Hirofumi Zempo and Shinya Kuno
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:30
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  23. Increasing self-efficacy is generally considered to be an important mediator of the effects of physical activity interventions. A previous review identified which behaviour change techniques (BCTs) were associ...

    Authors: Ellinor K Olander, Helen Fletcher, Stefanie Williams, Lou Atkinson, Andrew Turner and David P French
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:29
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  24. To better understand the health benefits of promoting active travel, it is important to understand the relationship between a change in active travel and changes in recreational and total physical activity.

    Authors: Shannon Sahlqvist, Anna Goodman, Ashley R Cooper and David Ogilvie
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:28
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  25. A burgeoning literature links attributes of neighbourhoods’ built environments to residents’ physical activity, food and transportation choices, weight, and/or obesity risk. In cross-sectional studies, non-ran...

    Authors: Cathleen D Zick, Heidi Hanson, Jessie X Fan, Ken R Smith, Lori Kowaleski-Jones, Barbara B Brown and Ikuho Yamada
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:27
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  26. The school food environment is important to target as less healthful food and beverages are widely available at schools. This study examined whether the availability of specific food/beverage items was associa...

    Authors: Louise C Mâsse and Judith E de Niet
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:26
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  27. Discretionary salt use varies according to socio-demographic factors. However, it is unknown whether salt knowledge and beliefs mediate this relationship. This study examined the direct and indirect effect of ...

    Authors: Rani Sarmugam, Anthony Worsley and Wei Wang
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:25
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  28. Maternal feeding practices have been proposed to play an important role in early child weight gain and obesogenic eating behaviors. However, to date longitudinal investigations in young children exploring thes...

    Authors: Rachel F Rodgers, Susan J Paxton, Robin Massey, Karen J Campbell, Eleanor H Wertheim, Helen Skouteris and Kay Gibbons
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:24
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  29. Few lifestyle interventions have successfully prevented excessive gestational weight gain. Understanding the program processes through which successful interventions achieve outcomes is important for the desig...

    Authors: Keriann H Paul and Christine M Olson
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:23
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  30. Accelerometers can identify certain physical activity behaviours, but not the context in which they take place. This study investigates the feasibility of wearable cameras to objectively categorise the behavio...

    Authors: Aiden R Doherty, Paul Kelly, Jacqueline Kerr, Simon Marshall, Melody Oliver, Hannah Badland, Alexander Hamilton and Charlie Foster
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:22
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  31. Recent legislation has required calorie labels on restaurant menus as a means of improving Americans’ health. Despite the growing research in this area, no consensus has been reached on the effectiveness of me...

    Authors: Brenna Ellison, Jayson L Lusk and David Davis
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:21
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  32. Compared to females, males experience a range of health inequities including higher rates of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Although sitting time is emerging as a distinct risk factor for chronic disease...

    Authors: Emma S George, Richard R Rosenkranz and Gregory S Kolt
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:20
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  33. The primary study objective was to examine whether the presence of food retailers surrounding schools was associated with students’ lunchtime eating behaviours. The secondary objective was to determine whether...

    Authors: Laura Seliske, William Pickett, Andrei Rosu and Ian Janssen
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:19
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  34. Walking groups are increasingly being set up but little is known about their efficacy in promoting physical activity. The present study aims to assess the efficacy of interventions to promote walking in groups...

    Authors: Aikaterini Kassavou, Andrew Turner and David P French
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:18
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  35. Although school-based interventions to promote physical activity in adolescents have been suggested in several recent reviews, questions have been raised regarding the effects of the strategies and the methodo...

    Authors: May Grydeland, Ingunn Holden Bergh, Mona Bjelland, Nanna Lien, Lene Frost Andersen, Yngvar Ommundsen, Knut-Inge Klepp and Sigmund Alfred Anderssen
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:17
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  36. Spatial configurations of office environments assessed by Space Syntax methodologies are related to employee movement patterns. These methods require analysis of floors plans which are not readily available in...

    Authors: Mitch J Duncan, Mahbub Rashid, Corneel Vandelanotte, Nicoleta Cutumisu and Ronald C Plotnikoff
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:16
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  37. Sport participation makes an important contribution to children’s overall physical activity. Understanding influences on sports participation is important and the family environment is considered key, however ...

    Authors: Anna F Timperio, Maartje M van Stralen, Johannes Brug, Elling Bere, Mai JM Chinapaw, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Nataša Jan, Lea Maes, Yannis Manios, Luis A Moreno, Jo Salmon and Saskia J te Velde
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:15
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  38. This intervention aimed to ascertain whether a low-cost, accessible, physical activity and nutrition program could improve physical activity and nutrition behaviours of insufficiently active 60–70 year olds re...

    Authors: Linda Burke, Andy H Lee, Jonine Jancey, Liming Xiang, Deborah A Kerr, Peter A Howat, Andrew P Hills and Annie S Anderson
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:14
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  39. Energy excess, low fruit and vegetable intake and other suboptimal dietary habits contribute to an increased poor health and the burden of disease in males. However the best way to engage males into nutrition ...

    Authors: Pennie J Taylor, Gregory S Kolt, Corneel Vandelanotte, Cristina M Caperchione, W Kerry Mummery, Emma S George, Mohanraj Karunanithi and Manny J Noakes
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:13
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  40. Active commuting to/from school is an important source of physical activity that has been declining over the past years. Although it is an affordable and simple way of increasing physical activity levels it is...

    Authors: Andreia Nogueira Pizarro, José Carlos Ribeiro, Elisa Amélia Marques, Jorge Mota and Maria Paula Santos
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:12
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  41. Several neighbourhood elements have been found to be related to leisure-time walking and cycling. However, the association with neighbourhood safety remains unclear. This study aimed to assess the association ...

    Authors: Daniëlle Kramer, Jolanda Maas, Marleen Wingen and Anton E Kunst
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:11
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  42. This study examined the independent association of objectively measured physical activity on insulin resistance while controlling for confounding variables including: cardiorespiratory fitness, adiposity, sex,...

    Authors: Rachael K Nelson, Jeffrey F Horowitz, Robert G Holleman, Ann M Swartz, Scott J Strath, Andrea M Kriska and Caroline R Richardson
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:10
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  43. There is a need for more longitudinal studies investigating the associations between screen-based sedentary behaviors (SB), dietary behaviors and leisure-time physical activity (PA).

    Authors: Mekdes K Gebremariam, Ingunn H Bergh, Lene F Andersen, Yngvar Ommundsen, Torunn H Totland, Mona Bjelland, May Grydeland and Nanna Lien
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:9
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  44. Understanding parental influences on their children’s physical activity (PA) provides insight into developing effective family-based interventions. This study examines whether children’s objectively monitored ...

    Authors: Cora L Craig, Christine Cameron and Catrine Tudor-Locke
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:8
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  45. Evaluating whether parental challenges and self-efficacy toward managing children’s lifestyle behaviors are successfully addressed by interventions requires valid instruments. The Lifestyle Behavior Checklist ...

    Authors: Sanne MPL Gerards, Karin Hummel, Pieter C Dagnelie, Nanne K de Vries and Stef PJ Kremers
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:7
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  46. Although obesity rates are high among Latino children, relatively few studies of parental feeding practices have examined Latino families as a separate group. Culturally-based approaches to measurement develop...

    Authors: Jeanne M Tschann, Steven E Gregorich, Carlos Penilla, Lauri A Pasch, Cynthia L de Groat, Elena Flores, Julianna Deardorff, Louise C Greenspan and Nancy F Butte
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:6
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  47. Recent research and literature reviews show that, among schoolchildren, some specific energy balance-related behaviors (EBRBs) are relevant for overweight and obesity prevention. It is also well known that the...

    Authors: Juan M Fernández-Alvira, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Amika S Singh, Frøydis N Vik, Yannis Manios, Eva Kovacs, Natasa Jan, Johannes Brug and Luis A Moreno
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:5
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  48. The family food environment is an important influence in the development of children’s dietary habits. Research suggests that influences of current dietary behaviour and behaviour change may differ. The aims o...

    Authors: Gilly Hendrie, Gundeep Sohonpal, Kylie Lange and Rebecca Golley
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:4
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  49. Ineffective family interventions for the prevention of childhood obesity have, in part, been attributed to the challenges of reaching and engaging parents. With a particular focus on parent engagement, this st...

    Authors: Kirsten K Davison, Janine M Jurkowski, Kaigang Li, Sibylle Kranz and Hal A Lawson
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:3
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  50. This study aimed to compare the levels of objectively-measured sedentary behavior in children attending Montessori preschools with those attending traditional preschools.

    Authors: Wonwoo Byun, Steven N Blair and Russell R Pate
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:2
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