A school-based randomized controlled trial to improve physical activity among Iranian high school girls
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A school-based randomized controlled trial to improve physical activity among Iranian high school girls
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 been conducted to try to increase PA participation rates with this population. Because PA interventio...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1479-5868
DOI: 10.1186/1479-5868-5-18