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  1. Having breakfast, eating food 'cooked from scratch' and eating together as a family have health and psychosocial benefits for young children. This study investigates how these parentally determined behaviours ...

    Authors: Vivien Swanson, Kevin G Power, Iain K Crombie, Linda Irvine, Kirsty Kiezebrink, Wendy Wrieden and Peter W Slane
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:65
  2. A school-based physical activity intervention designed to encourage adolescent girls to be more active was more effective for some participants than for others. We examined whether baseline enjoyment of exerci...

    Authors: Margaret Schneider and Dan M Cooper
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:64
  3. Inconsistent effects of school-based obesity prevention interventions may be related to how different subgroups receive them. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of an intervention program, includ...

    Authors: Mona Bjelland, Ingunn H Bergh, May Grydeland, Knut-Inge Klepp, Lene F Andersen, Sigmund A Anderssen, Yngvar Ommundsen and Nanna Lien
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:63
  4. The number of days of pedometer or accelerometer data needed to reliably assess physical activity (PA) is important for research that examines the relationship with health. While this important research has be...

    Authors: Teresa L Hart, Ann M Swartz, Susan E Cashin and Scott J Strath
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:62
  5. To explore the relationship between leisure and commuter cycling with objectively measured levels of road traffic and whether any relationship was affected by traffic levels directly outside of home or in loca...

    Authors: Charlie E Foster, Jenna R Panter and Nicholas J Wareham
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:61
  6. A number of studies conducted with ethnically diverse, low-income samples have found that parents with indulgent feeding styles had children with a higher weight status. Indulgent parents are those who are res...

    Authors: Sheryl O Hughes, Thomas G Power, Maria A Papaioannou, Matthew B Cross, Theresa A Nicklas, Sharon K Hall and Richard M Shewchuk
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:60
  7. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has been recognized as an important approach to develop and execute health interventions among marginalized populations, and a key strategy to translate research i...

    Authors: Jamie M Zoellner, Carol C Connell, Michael B Madson, Bo Wang, Vickie Blakely Reed, Elaine Fontenot Molaison and Kathleen Yadrick
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:59
  8. The process evaluation of the Vital@Work intervention was primary aimed at gaining insight into the context, dose delivered, fidelity, reach, dose received, and participants' attitude. Further, the differences...

    Authors: Jorien E Strijk, Karin I Proper, Allard J van der Beek and Willem van Mechelen
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:58
  9. When large scale trials are investigating the effects of interventions on appetite, it is paramount to efficiently monitor large amounts of human data. The original hand-held Electronic Appetite Ratings System...

    Authors: Catherine Gibbons, Phillipa Caudwell, Graham Finlayson, Neil King and John Blundell
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:57
  10. The purpose of this study is to assess the reliability and validity of the U.S. National Center for Safe Routes to School's in-class student travel tallies and written parent surveys. Over 65,000 tallies and 3...

    Authors: Noreen C McDonald, Amanda E Dwelley, Tabitha S Combs, Kelly R Evenson and Richard H Winters
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:56
  11. Understanding the relationship between urban design and physical activity is a high priority. Different representations of land use diversity may impact the association between neighbourhood design and specifi...

    Authors: Hayley E Christian, Fiona C Bull, Nicholas J Middleton, Matthew W Knuiman, Mark L Divitini, Paula Hooper, Anura Amarasinghe and Billie Giles-Corti
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:55
  12. Few studies have investigated factors that influence physical activity behavior during the transition from adolescence to adulthood. This study explores the associations of sociodemographic, behavioral, socioc...

    Authors: Kim A Jose, Leigh Blizzard, Terry Dwyer, Charlotte McKercher and Alison J Venn
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:54
  13. Effective health advocacy is a priority for efforts to increase population participation in physical activity. Local councils are an important audience for this advocacy. The aim of the current study was to de...

    Authors: Rosalina Richards, Linda Murdoch, Anthony I Reeder and Qa-t-a Amun
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:52
  14. Obesity is a major public health threat and policies aimed at curbing this epidemic are emerging. National calorie labeling legislation is forthcoming and requires rigorous evaluation to examine its impact on ...

    Authors: Maya K Vadiveloo, L Beth Dixon and Brian Elbel
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:51
  15. To examine the effects of a community-based resistance training program (Lift for Life®) on waist circumference and functional measures in adults with or at risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

    Authors: Karl E Minges, Glen Cormick, Edna Unglik and David W Dunstan
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:50
  16. While we concur with the objectives of the recent International Journal of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity paper published by Jago and colleagues titled "Physical activity and sedentary behaviour typo...

    Authors: Travis J Saunders, Stephanie A Prince and Mark S Tremblay
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:48
  17. The weather may be a driver of seasonal patterns in children's physical activity (PA). A better understanding of the relationships between weather and PA may help increase children's PA. This study aims to exa...

    Authors: Flo Harrison, Andrew P Jones, Graham Bentham, Esther MF van Sluijs, Aedín Cassidy and Simon J Griffin
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:47
  18. Dog-owners tend to be more physically active than non-owners; however, dogs have also been shown to inhibit physical activity for non-owners, under some circumstances.

    Authors: Ann M Toohey and Melanie J Rock
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:46
  19. Physical activity instruments can be subjective or objective. There is a need to assess the reliability of these instruments, especially for researches in children. The aim of this study was to determine the v...

    Authors: Renata M Bielemann, Felipe F Reichert, Vera MV Paniz and Denise P Gigante
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:45
  20. Active travel such as walking and cycling has potential to increase physical activity levels in sedentary individuals. Motorised car travel is a sedentary behaviour that contributes to carbon emissions. There ...

    Authors: Paul Kelly, Aiden Doherty, Emma Berry, Steve Hodges, Alan M Batterham and Charlie Foster
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:44
  21. Tailored nutrition interventions have been shown to be more effective than non-tailored materials in changing dietary behaviours, particularly fat intake and fruit and vegetable intake. But further research ex...

    Authors: Janine L Wright, Jillian L Sherriff, Satvinder S Dhaliwal and John CL Mamo
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:43
  22. Chinese individuals who have immigrated to a Western country initially tend to have a lower risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) compared to people who are already living there. Some studies have found, howeve...

    Authors: Doenja L Rosenmöller, Danijela Gasevic, Jaap Seidell and Scott A Lear
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:42
  23. The SenseWearâ„¢ Armband (SWA) (BodyMedia, Inc. Pittsburgh, PA) is a physical activity and lifestyle monitor that objectively and accurately measures free-living energy balance and sleep and includes software fo...

    Authors: Sara L Shuger, Vaughn W Barry, Xuemei Sui, Amanda McClain, Gregory A Hand, Sara Wilcox, Rebecca A Meriwether, James W Hardin and Steven N Blair
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:41
  24. To plan long-term prevention strategies and develop tailored intervention activities, it is important to understand the socio-demographic characteristics of the subpopulations at high risk of developing chroni...

    Authors: Jun Lv, Qingmin Liu, Yanjun Ren, Ting Gong, Shengfeng Wang and Liming Li
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:40
  25. Emerging frameworks to examine active school transportation (AST) commonly emphasize the built environment (BE) as having an influence on travel mode decisions. Objective measures of BE attributes have been re...

    Authors: Bonny Yee-Man Wong, Guy Faulkner and Ron Buliung
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:39
  26. Previous work has suggested that the number of permanent play facilities in school playgrounds and school-based policies on physical activity can influence physical activity in children. However, few comparabl...

    Authors: Rachael W Taylor, Victoria L Farmer, Sonya L Cameron, Kim Meredith-Jones, Sheila M Williams and Jim I Mann
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:38
  27. Modernisation and urbanisation have led to lifestyle changes and increasing risks for chronic diseases in China. Physical activity and sedentary behaviours among rural populations need to be better understood,...

    Authors: Ding Ding, James F Sallis, Melbourne F Hovell, Jianzhong Du, Miao Zheng, Haiying He and Neville Owen
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:37
  28. Retirement is a major life change that is likely to affect lifestyles. The aim of this study was to examine changes in leisure-time physical activity of moderate and vigorous intensity among ageing employees f...

    Authors: Jouni Lahti, Mikko Laaksonen, Eero Lahelma and Ossi Rahkonen
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:36
  29. There is increasing recognition that public health strategies to prevent childhood obesity need to start early in life. Any behavioural interventions need to target maternal attitudes and infant feeding practi...

    Authors: Rajalakshmi R Lakshman, Jill R Landsbaugh, Annie Schiff, Wendy Hardeman, Ken K Ong and Simon J Griffin
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:35
  30. Most Americans are not active at recommended levels. Adolescence is a developmental period when physical activity (PA) decreases markedly.

    Authors: Dan J Graham, Margaret Schneider and Sally S Dickerson
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:34
  31. There is a rapid decline in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) during middle childhood and adolescence. Information on the environmental factors implicated in this decline is limited. This study foc...

    Authors: RH Bradley, S McRitchie, RM Houts, P Nader and M O'Brien
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:33
  32. A significant amount of research has examined whether park or playground availability is associated with physical activity. However, little research has examined whether specific features or amenities of parks...

    Authors: Natalie Colabianchi, Andréa L Maslow and Kamala Swayampakala
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:32
  33. Children who participate in regular physical activity obtain health benefits. Preliminary pedometer-based cut-points representing sufficient levels of physical activity among youth have been established; howev...

    Authors: Gavin R McCormack, Billie Giles-Corti, Anna Timperio, Georgina Wood and Karen Villanueva
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:30
  34. Increased physical activity levels benefit both an individuals' health and productivity at work. The purpose of the current study was to explore the impact and cost-effectiveness of a workplace physical activi...

    Authors: Rosemary RC McEachan, Rebecca J Lawton, Cath Jackson, Mark Conner, David M Meads and Robert M West
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:29
  35. There is a high prevalence of overweight and obesity in persons with severe mental disorders and this has serious implications on the short and long term health outcomes of these patients. The aim of this revi...

    Authors: Nick Verhaeghe, Jan De Maeseneer, Lea Maes, Cornelis Van Heeringen and Lieven Annemans
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:28
  36. Children in poor and minority neighborhoods often lack adequate environmental support for healthy physical development and community interventions designed to improve physical activity resources serve as an im...

    Authors: Peter Anthamatten, Lois Brink, Sarah Lampe, Emily Greenwood, Beverly Kingston and Claudio Nigg
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:27
  37. The family environment offers several opportunities through which to improve adolescents' weight and weight-related behaviors. This study aims to examine the cross-sectional relationships between multiple fact...

    Authors: Katherine W Bauer, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, Jayne A Fulkerson, Peter J Hannan and Mary Story
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:25
  38. With an increasing research focus on multiple health behaviour change interventions, a methodological issue requiring further investigation is whether or not to employ pre-trial behavioural screening to exclud...

    Authors: Lauren A Waters, Elisabeth A Winkler, Marina M Reeves, Brianna S Fjeldsoe and Elizabeth G Eakin
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:24
  39. Television viewing has been associated with poor eating behaviours in adolescents. Changing unhealthy eating behaviours is most likely to be achieved by identifying and targeting factors shown to mediate the a...

    Authors: Natalie Pearson, Kylie Ball and David Crawford
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:23
  40. The aims of this study were to evaluate whether a diversity of healthy foods in a household would decrease the availability of unhealthy foods and to evaluate the association between a healthy dietary diversit...

    Authors: Ilana N Bezerra and Rosely Sichieri
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:22
  41. Women of color report the lowest levels of physical activity and highest rates of overweight and obesity in the US. The purpose of this study was to develop an individualized, ecologically valid, field based m...

    Authors: Charles S Layne, Scherezade K Mama, Jorge A Banda and Rebecca E Lee
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:21
  42. Weight misperception might preclude the adoption of healthful weight-related attitudes and behaviors among overweight and obese individuals, yet limited research exists in this area. We examined associations b...

    Authors: Dustin T Duncan, Kathleen Y Wolin, Melissa Scharoun-Lee, Eric L Ding, Erica T Warner and Gary G Bennett
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:20
  43. Currently, little is known about physical activity patterns in pregnancy with prior estimates predominantly based on subjective assessment measures that are prone to error. Given the increasing obesity rates a...

    Authors: Cheryce L Harrison, Russell G Thompson, Helena J Teede and Catherine B Lombard
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:19
  44. Insights into the effects of energy balance-related parenting practices on children's diet and activity behavior at an early age is warranted to determine which practices should be recommended and to whom. The...

    Authors: Jessica S Gubbels, Stef PJ Kremers, Annette Stafleu, Sanne I de Vries, R Alexandra Goldbohm, Pieter C Dagnelie, Nanne K de Vries, Stef van Buuren and Carel Thijs
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:18
  45. Studies on parent-child correlations of physical activity have been mixed. Few studies have examined concurrent temporal patterns of physical activity and sedentary behaviors in parents and children using dire...

    Authors: Bernard F Fuemmeler, Cheryl B Anderson and Louise C Mâsse
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:17
  46. Insufficient participation in physical activity and excessive screen time have been observed among Chinese children. The role of social and environmental factors in shaping physical activity and sedentary beha...

    Authors: Ya-Jun Huang, Stephen H Wong, Jo Salmon and Stanley S Hui
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:16