Formative research in a school-based obesity prevention program for Native American school children (Pathways)
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Formative research in a school-based obesity prevention program for Native American school children (Pathways).
This paper describes how formative research was developed and implemented to produce obesity prevention interventions among school children in six different Native American nations that are part of the Pathways study. The formative assessment work presented here was unique in several ways: (1) it represents the first time formative research methods have been applied across multiple Native Ameri...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Education Research
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0268-1153,1465-3648
DOI: 10.1093/her/13.2.251