Individual, social and environmental predictors of physical activity in severe to morbid obese African American adolescents
The purpose of this study was to predict low, moderate, hard and very hard physical activity (PA) and walking/biking/jogging based PA. One-hundred and fifty-nine severe to morbid obese African-American adolescents participated. We predicted 8% of the variance in hard PA largely due to family support...
Main Authors: | Jeffrey J. Martin, Kathryn Brogan-Hartlieb, Angela J. Jacques-Tiura, Sylvie Naar-King, Deborah A. Ellis, Kai-Lin Catherine Jen |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Karolinum Press
2016-12-01
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Series: | Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Kinanthropologica |
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Online Access: | http://www.karolinum.cz/doi/10.14712/23366052.2016.7 |
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