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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"youth activity"”.
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Associations between the Family Nutrition and Physical Activity screening tool and the Youth Activity Profile
… obesity. The Family Nutrition and Physical Activity (FNPA) Screening tool was developed to provide practical ways to evaluate home obesogenic environments. However, no study to date has examined associations between FNPA scores and child behaviors. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to …
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Parents' Motivation in Registering their Child for Gymnastics
… parents of recreational gymnasts. Coaches and youth sport program organizers could use these findings to develop and market youth activity programs.
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The relationship between participation in organized church youth activities and health risk behaviors
… study was to examine the relationship between youth participation in organized church youth activities and selected adolescent health risk behaviors. The sample used for the study included 72 youths representing eight Episcopal churches in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas. The survey instrument …
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A Youth Performing Arts Experience: The Active Ingredients of a Natural High
… to the outcomes of participation in positive youth activities, there have been very few investigations into the processes which occur within these settings. Stage Challenge is a dance, drama and design competition experienced annually by 16,000 New Zealand (NZ) youth (aged 9–19 years) across …
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Rural and non-rural differences in minutes spent in physical activity and sedentary behavior
… barriers for meeting recommended physical activity guidelines (Trivedi et al., 2015). Although studies have demonstrated adults in rural communities participate in less physical activity than their urban counterparts (Martin et al., 2005; Reis et al., 2004), the differences in physical …
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Text Production in Bebo: a study of three children's text production in online social networking sites
… sites. Social networking is a mainstream youth activity in the UK, conducted by (at the time of writing) almost 50% of 10-12 year old internet users (Ofcom, 2011, p.44). While social networking has been the subject of much interest amongst scholars and policy-makers, little has been …
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Assessing the Impact of Accelerometer Methodology upon the Physical Activity and Mental Health Relationship in Children and Adolescents
… common. Evidence shows that physical activity (PA) is beneficially associated with these conditions in children and adolescents (Chapter 2), and accelerometer-based assessments are now widely adopted to better capture youth activity behaviours (Chapter 3). However, evidence examining …