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  1. The papers of this special issue have the dual focus of reviewing research, especially clinical trials, testing self-determination theory (SDT) and of discussing the relations between SDT and motivational inte...

    Authors: Edward L Deci and Richard M Ryan
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:24
  2. Clinical interventions can be developed through two distinct pathways. In the first, which we call top-down, a well-articulated theory drives the development of the intervention, whereas in the case of a botto...

    Authors: Maarten Vansteenkiste, Geoffrey C Williams and Ken Resnicow
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:23
  3. This article explores the topics of motivation and self-regulation in the context of weight management and related behaviors. We focus on the role of a qualitative approach to address motivation - not only consid...

    Authors: Pedro J Teixeira, Marlene N Silva, Jutta Mata, António L Palmeira and David Markland
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:22
  4. Within Western society, many people have difficulties adequately regulating their eating behaviors and weight. Although the literature on eating regulation is vast, little attention has been given to motivatio...

    Authors: Joke Verstuyf, Heather Patrick, Maarten Vansteenkiste and Pedro J Teixeira
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:21
  5. A growing number of studies have pulled from Deci and Ryan's Self-Determination Theory to design interventions targeting health behavior change. More recently, researchers have begun using SDT to promote the a...

    Authors: Michelle S Fortier, Joan L Duda, Eva Guerin and Pedro J Teixeira
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:20
  6. Motivational Interviewing (MI), a counseling style initially used to treat addictions, increasingly has been used in health care and public health settings. This manuscript provides an overview of MI, includin...

    Authors: Ken Resnicow and Fiona McMaster
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:19
  7. Mounting evidence implicates health behaviors (e.g., nutrition, physical activity, tobacco abstinence) in various health outcomes. As the science of behavior change has emerged, increasing emphasis has been pl...

    Authors: Heather Patrick and Geoffrey C Williams
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:18
  8. Choice promotes the experience of autonomy, which enhances intrinsic motivation. Providing a greater choice of traditional active toys may increase children's activity time. Mastery also increases intrinsic mo...

    Authors: James N Roemmich, Maya J Lambiase MS, Thomas F McCarthy, Denise M Feda and Karl F Kozlowski
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:16
  9. Accelerometers have been used to determine the amount of time that children spend sedentary. However, as time spent sitting may be detrimental to health, research is needed to examine whether accelerometer sed...

    Authors: Nicola D Ridgers, Jo Salmon, Kate Ridley, Eoin O'Connell, Lauren Arundell and Anna Timperio
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:15
  10. U.S. adults are at unprecedented risk of becoming overweight or obese, and most scientists believe the primary cause is an obesogenic environment. Worksites provide an opportunity to shape the environments of ...

    Authors: Jennifer A Linde, Katherine E Nygaard, Richard F MacLehose, Nathan R Mitchell, Lisa J Harnack, Julie M Cousins, Daniel J Graham and Robert W Jeffery
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:14
  11. Socio-cultural differences for country-specific activities are rarely addressed in physical activity questionnaires. We examined the reliability and validity of the Indian Migration Study Physical Activity Que...

    Authors: Ruth Sullivan, Sanjay Kinra, Ulf Ekelund, Bharathi AV, Mario Vaz, Anura Kurpad, Tim Collier, K Srinath Reddy, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Shah Ebrahim and Hannah Kuper
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:13
  12. Excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) poses negative impact on mothers and their children. It is important to understand the modifiable lifestyle factors associated with excessive GWG during pregnancy to gui...

    Authors: Hong Jiang, Xu Qian, Mu Li, Henry Lynn, Yanyan Fan, Hongyi Jiang, Fengling He and Gengsheng He
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:12
  13. Lowering the price of fruit and vegetables is a promising strategy in stimulating the purchase of those foods. However, the true effects of this strategy are not well studied and it is unclear how the money sa...

    Authors: Wilma E Waterlander, Ingrid HM Steenhuis, Michiel R de Boer, Albertine J Schuit and Jacob C Seidell
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:11
  14. Although there is growing interest in assessing the home food environment, no easy-to-use, low cost tools exist to assess the foods served at home meals, making it difficult to assess the meal component of the...

    Authors: Jayne A Fulkerson, Leslie Lytle, Mary Story, Stacey Moe, Anne Samuelson and Audrey Weymiller
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:10
  15. Frequency of eating breakfast, lunch and evening meal as a determinant of fruit and vegetable intake among young people is little studied. We investigated whether irregular meal consumption was associated with...

    Authors: Trine Pagh Pedersen, Charlotte Meilstrup, Bjørn E Holstein and Mette Rasmussen
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:9
  16. Given the documented physical activity disparities that exist among low-income minority communities and the increased focused on socio-ecological approaches to address physical inactivity, efforts aimed at und...

    Authors: Jamie Zoellner, Jennie L Hill, Karen Zynda, Alicia D Sample and Kathleen Yadrick
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:6
  17. Eating behaviours have been suggested relating to obesity development. The Children's Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ) is a parent-report measure constructed to assess multiple dimensions of eating behavi...

    Authors: Ying-Ting Cao, Viktoria Svensson, Claude Marcus, Jing Zhang, Jian-Duan Zhang and Tanja Sobko
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:5
  18. Screen time has been associated with pediatric overweight. However, it is unclear whether overweight predicts or is predicted by excessive amounts of screen time. The aim of this study was to examine the direc...

    Authors: Teatske M Altenburg, Amika S Singh, Willem van Mechelen, Johannes Brug and Mai JM Chinapaw
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:4
  19. Socio-economically disadvantaged women are at a greater risk of spending excess time engaged in television viewing, a behavior linked to several adverse health outcomes. However, the factors which explain soci...

    Authors: Megan Teychenne, Kylie Ball and Jo Salmon
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:3
  20. Accurate measurement of physical activity (PA) is critical to establish dose-response relationships with various health outcomes. We compared the self-administered PA questionnaire from the Norwegian Women and...

    Authors: Kristin B Borch, Ulf Ekelund, Søren Brage and Eiliv Lund
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:2
  21. The health benefits of regular physical activity and exercise have been widely acknowledged. Unfortunately, a decline in physical activity is observed in older adults. Knowledge of the determinants of physical...

    Authors: Margot A Koeneman, Marieke W Verheijden, Mai J M Chinapaw and Marijke Hopman-Rock
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:142
  22. Fruit and vegetable (FV) intake in children in the Netherlands is much lower than recommended. Recurrent appraisal of intake levels is important for detecting changes in intake over time and to inform future i...

    Authors: Claudia Fischer, Johannes Brug, Nannah I Tak, Agneta Yngve and Saskia J te Velde
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:141
  23. Few lifestyle factors have been simultaneously studied and reported for Saudi adolescents. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to report on the prevalence of physical activity, sedentary behaviors ...

    Authors: Hazzaa M Al-Hazzaa, Nada A Abahussain, Hana I Al-Sobayel, Dina M Qahwaji and Abdulrahman O Musaiger
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:140
  24. Interest is growing in physical activity-friendly community designs, but few tests exist of communities explicitly designed to be walkable. We test whether students living in a new urbanist community that is a...

    Authors: Robert B Stevens, and Barbara B Brown
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:139
  25. Physical activity (PA) in children has declined in recent decades, highlighting the need for effective intervention programs for school-aged children. The main objective of this study was to assess to what ext...

    Authors: Kristjan Thor Magnusson, Ingvar Sigurgeirsson, Thorarinn Sveinsson and Erlingur Johannsson
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:138
  26. Most researchers who are conducting physical activity trials face difficulties in recruiting participants who are representative of the population or from specific population groups. Participants who are often...

    Authors: Charlie E Foster, Graham Brennan, Anne Matthews, Chloe McAdam, Claire Fitzsimons and Nanette Mutrie
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:137
  27. Insight in children's energy balance-related behaviours (EBRBs) and their determinants is important to inform obesity prevention research. Therefore, reliable and valid tools to measure these variables in larg...

    Authors: Amika S Singh, Froydis N Vik, Mai JM Chinapaw, Léonie Uijtdewilligen, Maïté Verloigne, Juan M Fernández-Alvira, Sarolta Stomfai, Yannis Manios, Marloes Martens and Johannes Brug
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:136
  28. Nutrition labels are one strategy being used to combat the increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity in the United States. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 mandates that calorie lab...

    Authors: Jonas J Swartz, Danielle Braxton and Anthony J Viera
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:135
  29. The Children's Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ) is a multi-dimensional, parent-reported questionnaire measuring children's eating behaviours related to obesity risk, i.e. 'enjoyment of food', 'food respon...

    Authors: Viktoria Svensson, Linda Lundborg, Yingting Cao, Paulina Nowicka, Claude Marcus and Tanja Sobko
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:134
  30. Increases in chronic illness due to sedentary lifestyles and poor metabolic fitness have led to numerous intervention strategies to promote physical activity (PA). This paper describes the methodological strat...

    Authors: Lynda H Norton, Kevin I Norton, Nicole Lewis and James Dollman
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:133
  31. Sedentary behaviour has been linked with adverse health outcomes in young people; however, the nature and context of being sedentary is poorly understood. Accurate quantification and description of sedentary b...

    Authors: Louise S Foley, Ralph Maddison, Yannan Jiang, Timothy Olds and Kate Ridley
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:132
  32. Although both insufficient physical activity (PA) and high screen time (ST) are independent risk factors for obesity, how the combination of sufficient/insufficient PA and high/low ST could increase obesity ri...

    Authors: Yung Liao, Kazuhiro Harada, Ai Shibata, Kaori Ishii, Koichiro Oka, Yoshio Nakamura, Takemi Sugiyama, Shigeru Inoue and Teruichi Shimomitsu
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:131
  33. There is no data on diet- and activity-related behaviors associated with overweight and obesity among Pakistani school-aged children. The study aimed to explore dietary behaviors, physical activity and sedenta...

    Authors: Muhammad Umair Mushtaq, Sibgha Gull, Komal Mushtaq, Ubeera Shahid, Mushtaq Ahmad Shad and Javed Akram
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:130
  34. A major challenge for successful weight management is tailoring weight loss programs to individual needs. The aim of this study was to investigate whether personality traits could be used to match individuals ...

    Authors: Irene A Munro, Miles R Bore, Don Munro and Manohar L Garg
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:129
  35. It is rare that decisions about investing in public health interventions in a city, town or other location can be informed by research generated in that specific place. It is therefore necessary to base decisi...

    Authors: Paul Watts, Gemma Phillips, Mark Petticrew, Angela Harden and Adrian Renton
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:128
  36. Most physical activity and nutrition interventions in children focus on the school setting; however, evidence suggests that children are less active and have greater access to unhealthy food at home. The aim o...

    Authors: Scott Duncan, Julia C McPhee, Philip J Schluter, Caryn Zinn, Richard Smith and Grant Schofield
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:127
  37. As few longitudinal studies have examined how active transport is associated with physical activity among children and adolescents over time, and how active transport tracks through childhood and adolescence, ...

    Authors: Alison Carver, Anna F Timperio, Kylie D Hesketh, Nicola D Ridgers, Jo L Salmon and David A Crawford
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:126
  38. Empirical evidence suggests that an association between the built environment and physical activity exists. This evidence is mostly derived from cross-sectional studies that do not account for other causal exp...

    Authors: Gavin R McCormack and Alan Shiell
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:125
  39. Environmental perceptions and psychological measures appear to be associated with walking and cycling behaviour; however, their influence is still unclear. We assessed these associations using baseline data fr...

    Authors: Jenna Panter, Simon Griffin, Andrew Jones, Roger Mackett and David Ogilvie
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:124
  40. Active school transport (AST) has declined rapidly in recent decades. While many studies have examined walking, cycling to school has received very little attention. Correlates of cycling are likely to differ ...

    Authors: Georgina SA Trapp, Billie Giles-Corti, Hayley E Christian, Max Bulsara, Anna F Timperio, Gavin R McCormack and Karen P Villaneuva
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:123
  41. It is often assumed that physical activity (PA) and physical performance during childhood and adolescence are beneficial for health during adulthood, but a positive relationship between PA and physical perform...

    Authors: Aurélie Blaes, Georges Baquet, Claudine Fabre, Emmanuel Van Praagh and Serge Berthoin
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:122
  42. Data on barriers to physical activity in older adults in Germany are scarce. The aim of this study was to analyse barriers to physical activity in a cohort of older adults, allowing comparisons between men and...

    Authors: Anna Moschny, Petra Platen, Renate Klaaßen-Mielke, Ulrike Trampisch and Timo Hinrichs
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:121
  43. Adolescent females have been highlighted as a particularly sedentary population and the possible negative effects of a sedentary lifestyle are being uncovered. However, much of the past sedentary research is b...

    Authors: Deirdre M Harrington, Kieran P Dowd, Alan K Bourke and Alan E Donnelly
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:120
  44. Physical activity (PA) shows a marked decline during adolescence. Some studies have pointed to pubertal status or timing as possible PA determinants in this age group. Furthermore, it was supposed that the imp...

    Authors: Emily Finne, Jens Bucksch, Thomas Lampert and Petra Kolip
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:119
  45. Although lifestyle interventions targeting multiple lifestyle behaviors are more effective in preventing unhealthy weight gain and chronic diseases than intervening on a single behavior, few studies have compa...

    Authors: Ikuyo Imayama, Catherine M Alfano, Angela Kong, Karen E Foster-Schubert, Carolyn E Bain, Liren Xiao, Catherine Duggan, Ching-Yun Wang, Kristin L Campbell, George L Blackburn and Anne McTiernan
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:118
  46. Better knowledge on why some individuals succeed in maintaining participation in physical activity throughout adolescence is needed to guide the development of effective interventions to increase and then main...

    Authors: Mathieu Bélanger, Michelle Casey, Marc Cormier, Annie Laflamme Filion, Geneviève Martin, Stéphanie Aubut, Philipe Chouinard, Simon-Pierre Savoie and Jacinthe Beauchamp
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:117
  47. The International Physical Activity Questionnaire - Short Form (IPAQ-SF) has been recommended as a cost-effective method to assess physical activity. Several studies validating the IPAQ-SF have been conducted ...

    Authors: Paul H Lee, Duncan J Macfarlane, TH Lam and Sunita M Stewart
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:115