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  1. To examine the effectiveness of interventions aimed at improving physical activity, diet, and/or weight-related behaviors amongst university/college students. Five online databases were searched (January 1970 ...

    Authors: Ronald C Plotnikoff, Sarah A Costigan, Rebecca L Williams, Melinda J Hutchesson, Sarah G Kennedy, Sara L Robards, Jennifer Allen, Clare E Collins, Robin Callister and John Germov
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:45
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  2. Child care centers influence physical activity levels among children, yet little is known about the specific aspects of the environment that support generous amounts of activity. The purpose of this study was ...

    Authors: Kathryn E Henderson, Gabrielle M Grode, Meghan L O’Connell and Marlene B Schwartz
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:43
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  3. Technological advances have seen a burgeoning industry for accelerometer-based wearable activity monitors targeted at the consumer market. The purpose of this study was to determine the convergent validity of ...

    Authors: Ty Ferguson, Alex V Rowlands, Tim Olds and Carol Maher
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:42
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  4. Weather conditions, along with day length, are proposed as the main drivers of the seasonal patterns in children’s physical activity (PA), but little is known about how they affect children at different ages. ...

    Authors: Flo Harrison, Esther MF van Sluijs, Kirsten Corder, Ulf Ekelund and Andy Jones
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:41
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  5. Measurement of physical activity in epidemiological studies requires tools which are reliable, valid and culturally relevant. We attempted to develop a physical activity questionnaire (PAQ) that would measure ...

    Authors: Ranjit Mohan Anjana, Vasudevan Sudha, Nagarajan Lakshmipriya, Sivasankaran Subhashini, Rajendra Pradeepa, Loganathan Geetha, Mookambika Ramya Bai, Rajagopal Gayathri, Mohan Deepa, Ranjit Unnikrishnan, Valsalakumari Sreekumaran Nair Binu, Anura V Kurpad and Viswanathan Mohan
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:40
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  6. Child fruit and vegetable intake is below recommended levels, increasing risk for chronic disease. Interventions to influence fruit and vegetable intake among youth have had mixed effects. Innovative, theory-d...

    Authors: Debbe Thompson, Riddhi Bhatt, Isabel Vazquez, Karen W Cullen, Janice Baranowski, Tom Baranowski and Yan Liu
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:39
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  7. Demographic, family, and home characteristics play an important role in determining childhood sedentary behaviour. The objective of this paper was to identify correlates of total sedentary time (SED) and corr...

    Authors: Allana G LeBlanc, Stephanie T Broyles, Jean-Philippe Chaput, Geneviève Leduc, Charles Boyer, Michael M Borghese and Mark S Tremblay
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:38
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  8. 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 11 (2014).

    Authors: Russell Jago and Frank van Lenthe
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:37
    Content type: Reviewer acknowledgement Published on:

  9. The development of family-based programs for child weight management requires an understanding of parents’ difficulties in managing children’s eating and physical activity behaviors; however, knowledge about t...

    Authors: Anna Ek, Kimmo Sorjonen, Jonna Nyman, Claude Marcus and Paulina Nowicka
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:36
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  10. Amateur sporting clubs represent an attractive setting for health promotion. This study assesses the impact of a multi-component intervention on the availability, promotion and purchase of fruit and vegetable ...

    Authors: Luke Wolfenden, Melanie Kingsland, Bosco C Rowland, Pennie Dodds, Karen Gillham, Sze Lin Yoong, Maree Sidey and John Wiggers
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:35
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  11. Despite a growing consensus on the feeding practices associated with healthy eating patterns, few observational studies of maternal feeding practices with young children have been conducted, especially in low-...

    Authors: Thomas G Power, Sheryl O Hughes, L Suzanne Goodell, Susan L Johnson, J Andrea Jaramillo Duran, Kimberly Williams, Ashley D Beck and Leslie A Frankel
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:34
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  12. Multi-factorial intervention studies have been found to be successful in the initiation of lifestyle changes. However, little is known about the longer-term maintenance of health behavior improvements. The pur...

    Authors: Sophie Baumann, Ulla Toft, Mette Aadahl, Torben Jørgensen and Charlotta Pisinger
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:33
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  13. Active video games may contribute to reducing time spent in sedentary activities, increasing physical activity and preventing excessive weight gain in adolescents. Active video gaming can, however, only be ben...

    Authors: Monique Simons, Mai JM Chinapaw, Johannes Brug, Jaap Seidell and Emely de Vet
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:32
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  14. The transition from adolescence to early adulthood is a critical period in which there is a decline in physical activity (PA). College and university students make up a large segment of this age group. Smartph...

    Authors: Anouk Middelweerd, Danielle M van der Laan, Maartje M van Stralen, Julia S Mollee, Mirjam Stuij, Saskia J te Velde and Johannes Brug
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:31
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  15. To reverse the global epidemic of physical inactivity that is responsible for more than 5 million deaths per year, many groups recommend creating “activity-friendly environments.” Such environments may have ot...

    Authors: James F Sallis, Chad Spoon, Nick Cavill, Jessa K Engelberg, Klaus Gebel, Mike Parker, Christina M Thornton, Debbie Lou, Amanda L Wilson, Carmen L Cutter and Ding Ding
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:30
    Content type: Review Published on:

  16. Active commuting to school (ACS) can promote children’s physical activity and may help prevent childhood obesity. Previous researchers in various disciplines, e.g., health, urban planning, and transportation, ...

    Authors: Wenhua Lu, E Lisako J McKyer, Chanam Lee, Marcia G Ory, Patricia Goodson and Suojin Wang
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:29
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  17. Healthy eating by primary school-aged children is important for good health and development. Schools can play an important role in the education and promotion of healthy eating among children. The aim of this ...

    Authors: Dean A Dudley, Wayne G Cotton and Louisa R Peralta
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:28
    Content type: Review Published on:

  18. Physical activity (PA) interventions designed to prevent prenatal complications have focused on increasing moderate PA yielding conflicting results. Minimal attention has focused on the evaluation of sleep, se...

    Authors: Diana R Di Fabio, Courtney K Blomme, Katie M Smith, Gregory J Welk and Christina G Campbell
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:27
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  19. Research on the association between the physical environment and physical activity in children has focused on built and developed features or total green space. The impact of natural, undeveloped green spaces ...

    Authors: Ian Janssen and Andrei Rosu
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:26
    Content type: Research Published on:

  20. There are considerable inter-individual differences in the direction and degree of change in physical activity (PA) levels during the retirement transition. There is currently a limited theoretical understandi...

    Authors: Suzanne McDonald, Nicola O’Brien, Martin White and Falko F Sniehotta
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:25
    Content type: Research Published on:

  21. Few studies have evaluated the effects of infrastructural improvements to promote walking and cycling. Even fewer have explored how the context and mechanisms of such interventions may interact to produce thei...

    Authors: Shannon Sahlqvist, Anna Goodman, Tim Jones, Jane Powell, Yena Song and David Ogilvie
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:24
    Content type: Research Published on:

  22. This study examined the association of adolescent-reported family functioning and friendship quality with objectively-measured moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA), sedentary time, and self-reported s...

    Authors: Andrew J Atkin, Kirsten Corder, Ian Goodyer, Diane Bamber, Ulf Ekelund, Soren Brage, Valerie Dunn and Esther MF van Sluijs
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:23
    Content type: Research Published on:

  23. Occupational sitting can be the largest contributor to overall daily sitting time in white-collar workers. With adverse health effects in adults, intervention strategies to influence sedentary time on a workin...

    Authors: Katrien De Cocker, Charlene Veldeman, Dirk De Bacquer, Lutgart Braeckman, Neville Owen, Greet Cardon and Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:22
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  24. Eighty per cent of adolescents globally do insufficient physical activity. Parks are a popular place for adolescents to be active. However, little is known about which park features are associated with higher ...

    Authors: Nicole Edwards, Paula Hooper, Matthew Knuiman, Sarah Foster and Billie Giles-Corti
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:21
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  25. This study described the patterns of accelerometer-determined physical activity and sedentary behavior among adults using a nationally representative sample from the United States.

    Authors: Kelly R Evenson, Fang Wen, Jesse S Metzger and Amy H Herring
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:20
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  27. The accurate measurement of daily mobility and travel to destinations beyond the residential neighbourhood has been identified as an important but almost systematically overlooked factor when investigating the...

    Authors: Tom Stewart, Scott Duncan, Basile Chaix, Yan Kestens, Jasper Schipperijn and Grant Schofield
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:18
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  28. Few studies consider how risk factors within multiple levels of influence operate synergistically to determine childhood obesity. We used recursive partitioning analysis to identify unique combinations of indi...

    Authors: Andraea Van Hulst, Marie-Hélène Roy-Gagnon, Lise Gauvin, Yan Kestens, Mélanie Henderson and Tracie A Barnett
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:17
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  29. The transition to higher education involves a significant life change and might be accompanied with less healthy behaviours. However, the only longitudinal study that spanned the period from high school to col...

    Authors: Benedicte Deforche, Delfien Van Dyck, Tom Deliens and Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:16
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  30. Obesity is an important public health issue. Finding ways to increase physical activity and improve nutrition, particularly in children, is a clear priority. Our Cochrane review of the World Health Organizatio...

    Authors: Rebecca Langford, Christopher Bonell, Hayley Jones and Rona Campbell
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:15
    Content type: Review Published on:

  31. A Play Street is a street that is reserved for children’s safe play for a specific period during school vacations. It was hypothesized that a Play Street near children’s home can increase their moderate- to vi...

    Authors: Sara D’Haese, Delfien Van Dyck, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Benedicte Deforche and Greet Cardon
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:14
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  32. Food neophobia, the rejection of unknown or novel foods, may result in poor dietary patterns. This study investigates the cross-sectional relationship between neophobia in children aged 24 months and variety o...

    Authors: Rebecca A Perry, Kimberley M Mallan, Jasly Koo, Chelsea E Mauch, Lynne A Daniels and Anthea M Magarey
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:13
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  33. Physical inactivity increases the risk of many chronic diseases including coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity and some cancers. It is currently recommended that adults should undertake at least 15...

    Authors: Suzanne Audrey and Sunita Procter
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:12
    Content type: Research Published on:

  34. We compared 24-hour waist-worn accelerometer wear time characteristics of 9–11 year old children in the International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment (ISCOLE) to similarly aged U.S. c...

    Authors: Catrine Tudor-Locke, Tiago V Barreira, John M Schuna Jr, Emily F Mire, Jean-Philippe Chaput, Mikael Fogelholm, Gang Hu, Rebecca Kuriyan, Anura Kurpad, Estelle V Lambert, Carol Maher, José Maia, Victor Matsudo, Tim Olds, Vincent Onywera, Olga L Sarmiento…
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:11
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  35. Physical activity (PA) has a profound impact on health and development in children. Parental behaviors (i.e., modeling and support) represent an obvious important factor in child PA. The purpose of this paper ...

    Authors: Christopher A Yao and Ryan E Rhodes
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:10
    Content type: Review Published on:

  36. There is a growing concern among researchers with the limited effectiveness and yet subsequent stagnation of theories applied to physical activity (PA). One of the most highlighted areas of concern is the esta...

    Authors: Ryan E Rhodes and Christopher A Yao
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:9
    Content type: Review Published on:

  37. There has been increasing focus on the importance of national policy to address population levels of physical inactivity. Components of a comprehensive national physical activity policy framework include: 1) n...

    Authors: Karen Milton and Adrian Bauman
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:8
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  38. The literature on determinants of dietary behavior among youth is extensive and unwieldy. We conducted an umbrella review or review-of-reviews to present a comprehensive overview of the current knowledge.

    Authors: Ester FC Sleddens, Willemieke Kroeze, Leonie FM Kohl, Laura M Bolten, Elizabeth Velema, Pam J Kaspers, Johannes Brug and Stef PJ Kremers
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:7
    Content type: Review Published on:

  39. Public health is currently focused on childhood obesity, and the associated behaviors of physical activity and nutrition. Canadian youth are insufficiently active and do not meet nutritional guidelines. This i...

    Authors: Rebecca A Spencer, Laurene Rehman and Sara FL Kirk
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:6
    Content type: Review Published on:

  40. To produce a meta-study by completing a systematic review of qualitative research examining determinants of independent active free play in children.

    Authors: Homan Lee, Katherine A Tamminen, Alexander M Clark, Linda Slater, John C Spence and Nicholas L Holt
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:5
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  41. According to the CONSORT statement, significance testing of baseline differences in randomized controlled trials should not be performed. In fact, this practice has been discouraged by numerous authors through...

    Authors: Michiel R de Boer, Wilma E Waterlander, Lothar DJ Kuijper, Ingrid HM Steenhuis and Jos WR Twisk
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:4
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  42. The aim was to describe levels, patterns and correlates of physical activity and sedentary behavior in a sample of Swedish children, two years of age, with normal weight, overweight and obese parents.

    Authors: Elin Johansson, Maria Hagströmer, Viktoria Svensson, Anna Ek, Michaela Forssén, Håkan Nero and Claude Marcus
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:3
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  43. Process evaluation is important for improving theories of behavior change and behavioral intervention methods. The present study reports on the process outcomes of a pilot test of the theoretical model (the Pr...

    Authors: Fiona Gillison, Afroditi Stathi, Prasuna Reddy, Rachel Perry, Gordon Taylor, Paul Bennett, James Dunbar and Colin Greaves
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:2
    Content type: Research Published on:

  44. In the UK, thousands of people with high cardiovascular risk are being identified by a national risk-assessment programme (NHS Health Checks). Waste the Waist is an evidence-informed, theory-driven (modified H...

    Authors: Colin Greaves, Fiona Gillison, Afroditi Stathi, Paul Bennett, Prasuna Reddy, James Dunbar, Rachel Perry, Daniel Messom, Roger Chandler, Margaret Francis, Mark Davis, Colin Green, Philip Evans and Gordon Taylor
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:1
    Content type: Research Published on:

  45. The Dutch Obesity Intervention in Teenagers (DOiT) programme is an evidence-based obesity prevention programme tailored to adolescents attending the first two years of prevocational education in the Netherland...

    Authors: Femke van Nassau, Amika S Singh, Ester Cerin, Jo Salmon, Willem van Mechelen, Johannes Brug and Mai JM Chinapaw
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:158
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. Recent changes in home physical environments, such as decreasing outdoor space and increasing electronic media, may negatively affect health by facilitating sedentariness and reducing physical activity. As chi...

    Authors: Clover Maitland, Gareth Stratton, Sarah Foster, Rebecca Braham and Michael Rosenberg
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:157
    Content type: Research Published on:

  47. The home food environment is an important setting for the development of dietary patterns in childhood. Interventions that support parents to modify the home food environment for their children, however, may a...

    Authors: Rebecca Wyse, Karen J Campbell, Leah Brennan and Luke Wolfenden
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:144
    Content type: Research Published on:

  48. Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second cause of cancer deaths amongst women in the UK. The incidence of the disease is increasing and is highest in women from least deprived areas. ...

    Authors: Annie S Anderson, Maureen Macleod, Nanette Mutrie, Jacqueline Sugden, Hilary Dobson, Shaun Treweek, Ronan E O’Carroll, Alistair Thompson, Alison Kirk, Graham Brennan and Sally Wyke
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:156
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  49. Research on social inequalities in sports participation and unstructured physical activity among young children is scarce. This study aimed to assess the associations of family socioeconomic position (SEP) and...

    Authors: Anne I Wijtzes, Wilma Jansen, Selma H Bouthoorn, Niek Pot, Albert Hofman, Vincent W V Jaddoe and Hein Raat
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:155
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  50. Promoting unstructured outside play is a promising vehicle to increase children’s physical activity (PA). This study investigates if factors of the social environment moderate the relationship between the perc...

    Authors: Teun Remmers, Dave Van Kann, Jessica Gubbels, Swantje Schmidt, Sanne de Vries, Dick Ettema, Stef PJ Kremers and Carel Thijs
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:150
    Content type: Research Published on:
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