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A School-Based Randomized Controlled Trial to Improve Physical Activity among Iranian High School Girls
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Ghofranipou, F., Niknami, S., Taymoori, P., Berry, T. R., Lubans, D.
Background: Physical activity (PA) rates decline precipitously during the high school years and are consistently lower among adolescent girls than adolescent boys. Due to cultural barriers, this problem might be exacerbated in female Iranian adolescents. However, little intervention research has...
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2005
Yonge, O., Cameron, B., Mill, J.
International clinical practica are a strategy to integrate a global dimension in nursing curricula and achieve culturally sensitive nursing practice. In this paper, a review of the history and development of international practica for nursing students is presented, and research evaluating the...
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2016-08-28
Johnson, Jeffrey A., Crick, Katelynn, Nykiforuk, Candace I.J., McGetrick, Jennifer Ann
Walk Score® is a proprietary walkability metric that ranks locations by proximity to destinations, with emerging health promotion applications for increasing walking as physical activity. Currently, field validations of Walk Score® have only occurred in metropolitan regions of the United States;...
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2008
Shannahoff-Khalsa, D., Carlson, L. E., Buscemi, N., Dusek, J. A., Bond, K., Barnes, V., Ospina, M. B., Dryden, D. M., Karkhaneh, M.
OBJECTIVE: To provide a descriptive overview of the clinical trials assessing meditation practices for health care. DESIGN: Systematic review of the literature. Comprehensive searches were conducted in 17 electronic bibliographic databases through September 2005. Other sources of potentially...
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Conceiving action, tracking practice, and locating expertise for health promotion research.
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Health promotion is the process of enabling persons, families, neighbourhoods, communities, sectors, and societies to take action around the development and implementation of health determinants.The goal is to put health determinants in the control of individuals through programming that enhances...
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Creating Neighbourhood Groupings Based on Built Environment Features to Facilitate Health Promotion Activities
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VanSpronsen, Eric, Plotnikoff, Ronald C., Vallianatos, Helen, Schopflocher, Donald, Raine, Kim D., Spence, John C., Nykiforuk, Candace I.J.
OBJECTIVES: Detailed assessments of the built environment often resist data reduction and summarization. This project sought to develop a method of reducing built environment data to an extent that they can be effectively communicated to researchers and community stakeholders. We aim to help in...
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2005
Chavez, K., Pillon, S., O'Brien, B.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate drug use and risk behaviors among students of the University of Guayaquil in Ecuador. To evaluate this issue, we used the questionnaire “Youth Risk Behavior Survey” (YRBS). The study sample consisted of 751 undergraduate students: 328 (44%) male and 423...
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Ease of Imagination, Message Framing and Physical Activity Messages
2010
Abstract: Objectives. The purpose of this research was to replicate a study that examined how message framing and ease of imagination interact to influence attitudes towards the prevention of heart disease through physical activity and a healthy diet. Changes were made such that only physical...
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Evidence-based approaches to remedy and also to prevent abuse of community-dwelling older persons
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Els, C., Ratajewicz, S.E., Asirifi, M.A., Wilson, D.M.
Elder abuse is a global issue, with an estimated 4–10% of older persons in Canada abused each year. Although Canadian legislation has been created to prevent and punish the abuse of older persons living in nursing homes and other care facilities, community-dwelling older persons are at greater...
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Examining Aspects of the Built Environment: An Evaluation of a Community Walking Map Project
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Mitha, Shaesta, Nykiforuk, Candace I.J. , Nieuwendyk, Laura M., Hosler, Ian
OBJECTIVE: Interventions that address the built environment present an opportunity to affect behaviours such as physical activity. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a community walking map developed for eight neighbourhoods in the City of Edmonton (COE). METHOD: A walking map developed in...