List of works - Carol Maher

A Physical Activity and Diet Program Delivered by Artificially Intelligent Virtual Health Coach: Proof-of-Concept Study

scientific article published on 10 July 2020

A Qualitative Study to Examine Feasibility and Design of an Online Social Networking Intervention to Increase Physical Activity in Teenage Girls.

scientific article

A Smartphone App to Reduce Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption Among Young Adults in Australian Remote Indigenous Communities: Design, Formative Evaluation and User-Testing.

scientific article published on 12 December 2017

A Social Networking and Gamified App to Increase Physical Activity: Cluster RCT

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

A Web-Based, Social Networking Beginners' Running Intervention for Adults Aged 18 to 50 Years Delivered via a Facebook Group: Randomized Controlled Trial.

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

A Web-Based, Social Networking Physical Activity Intervention for Insufficiently Active Adults Delivered via Facebook App: Randomized Controlled Trial

scientific article published on 13 July 2015

A model for presenting accelerometer paradata in large studies: ISCOLE.

scientific article published on 20 April 2015

A pedometer based physical activity self-management program for children and adolescents with physical disability - design and methods of the StepUp study.

scientific article published on 03 February 2014

Academic Performance and Lifestyle Behaviors in Australian School Children: A Cluster Analysis

scientific article published in April 2017

Active school transport and weekday physical activity in 9-11-year-old children from 12 countries.

scientific article

Adiposity and the isotemporal substitution of physical activity, sedentary time and sleep among school-aged children: a compositional data analysis approach.

scientific article published on 2 March 2018

Advancing health-related cluster analysis methodology: quantification of pairwise activity cluster similarities.

scientific article published on 9 May 2014

An international comparison of dietary patterns in 9-11-year-old children

scientific article published on 8 December 2015

Anaerobic tests for wheelchair-using children with cerebral palsy: the 'scroll saw' of the exercise test toolbox?

scientific article published on 30 July 2013

Anxious or empowered? A cross-sectional study exploring how wearable activity trackers make their owners feel

scientific article published on 03 July 2019

Are Children Like Werewolves? Full Moon and Its Association with Sleep and Activity Behaviors in an International Sample of Children

scientific article published on 24 March 2016

Are participant characteristics from ISCOLE study sites comparable to the rest of their country?

scientific article

Are the correlates of active school transport context-specific?

scientific article published on 8 December 2015

Association between body mass index and body fat in 9-11-year-old children from countries spanning a range of human development

scientific article published on 8 December 2015

Association between breakfast frequency and physical activity and sedentary time: a cross-sectional study in children from 12 countries

Association between home and school food environments and dietary patterns among 9-11-year-old children in 12 countries.

scientific article published on 8 December 2015

Associations between breakfast frequency and adiposity indicators in children from 12 countries.

scientific article published on 8 December 2015

Associations between meeting combinations of 24-h movement guidelines and health-related quality of life in children from 12 countries

scientific article

Associations between meeting combinations of 24-hour movement recommendations and dietary patterns of children: A 12-country study

Associations between sleep patterns and lifestyle behaviors in children: an international comparison

scientific article

Associations of neighborhood social environment attributes and physical activity among 9-11 year old children from 12 countries

scientific article published on 22 May 2017

At the Mercy of the Gods: Associations Between Weather, Physical Activity, and Sedentary Time in Children

scientific article published on 19 June 2015

Birth weight and childhood obesity: a 12-country study.

scientific article published on 8 December 2015

Breastfeeding and childhood obesity: A 12-country study

scientific article published on 05 March 2020

Can Smartphone Apps Increase Physical Activity? Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

scientific article published on 19 March 2019

Can a school-based sleep education programme improve sleep knowledge, hygiene and behaviours using a randomised controlled trial.

scientific article published on 10 March 2015

Changes in use of time across retirement: A longitudinal study.

scientific article published on 2 April 2017

Changes in use of time, activity patterns, and health and wellbeing across retirement: design and methods of the life after work study.

scientific article published on 10 October 2013

Characteristics of adopters of an online social networking physical activity smartphone app: a cluster analysis (Preprint)

scientific article published on 03 June 2019

Compositional data analysis for physical activity, sedentary time and sleep research.

scientific article

Correlates of Total Sedentary Time and Screen Time in 9-11 Year-Old Children around the World: The International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

Correlates of compliance with recommended levels of physical activity in children.

scientific article published on 28 November 2017

Creating Engaging Health Promotion Campaigns on Social Media: Observations and Lessons From Fitbit and Garmin

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Development and pilot evaluation of a clinic-based mHealth app referral service to support adult cancer survivors increase their participation in physical activity using publicly available mobile apps.

scientific article published on 16 January 2018

Development and reliability of an audit tool to assess the school physical activity environment across 12 countries

scientific article published on 8 December 2015

Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together Within a Team-Based Physical Activity Intervention? A Social Network Analysis

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

Does compliance with healthy lifestyle behaviours cluster within individuals in Australian primary school-aged children?

scientific article published on 23 July 2017

Does gamification increase engagement with online programs? A systematic review

scientific article

Does home equipment contribute to socioeconomic gradients in Australian children's physical activity, sedentary time and screen time?

scientific article

Effectiveness of a facebook-delivered physical activity intervention for post-partum women: a randomized controlled trial protocol

scientific article

Emotional Eating, Health Behaviours, and Obesity in Children: A 12-Country Cross-Sectional Study

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Engagement, compliance and retention with a gamified online social networking physical activity intervention

scientific article published on 18 May 2017

Epidemiological Transition in Physical Activity and Sedentary Time in Children

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Everybody's working for the weekend: changes in enjoyment of everyday activities across the retirement threshold.

scientific article published on 7 June 2016

Evidence that the prevalence of childhood overweight is plateauing: data from nine countries

scientific article

Examining social-cognitive theory constructs as mediators of behaviour change in the active team smartphone physical activity program: a mediation analysis

scientific article published on 07 January 2021

Examining the use of evidence-based and social media supported tools in freely accessible physical activity intervention websites

scientific article

Factors influencing postural management for children with cerebral palsy in the special school setting.

scientific article published on 8 June 2010

Fatigue is a major issue for children and adolescents with physical disabilities.

scientific article published on 22 March 2015

Fitness, fatness and the reallocation of time between children's daily movement behaviours: an analysis of compositional data.

scientific article

Health-Related Quality of Life and Lifestyle Behavior Clusters in School-Aged Children from 12 Countries

scientific article published on 10 January 2017

Heavy going but making progress: challenges for increasing physical activity in young people with cerebral palsy

scientific article published on 16 October 2014

Household-level correlates of children's physical activity levels in and across 12 countries

scientific article

Human development index, children's health-related quality of life and movement behaviors: a compositional data analysis

scientific article published on 23 January 2018

Identification of a core set of exercise tests for children and adolescents with cerebral palsy: a Delphi survey of researchers and clinicians

scientific article published on 11 February 2011

Improving wear time compliance with a 24-hour waist-worn accelerometer protocol in the International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment (ISCOLE)

scientific article

In search of lost time: When people undertake a new exercise program, where does the time come from? A randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 06 February 2014

Individual and School-Level Socioeconomic Gradients in Physical Activity in Australian Schoolchildren.

scientific article

Inequality in physical activity, sedentary behaviour, sleep duration and risk of obesity in children: a 12-country study.

scientific article

International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment (ISCOLE): Contributions to Understanding the Global Obesity Epidemic

scientific article published on 15 April 2019

It's not raining men: a mixed-methods study investigating methods of improving male recruitment to health behaviour research

scientific article published on 24 June 2019

Joint association of birth weight and physical activity/sedentary behavior with obesity in children ages 9-11 years from 12 countries.

scientific article published in June 2017

Joint associations between weekday and weekend physical activity or sedentary time and childhood obesity

scientific article published on 31 January 2019

Life on holidays: differences in activity composition between school and holiday periods in Australian children

scientific article published on 03 June 2019

Life on holidays: study protocol for a 3-year longitudinal study tracking changes in children's fitness and fatness during the in-school versus summer holiday period

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

Low-Cost Consumer-Based Trackers to Measure Physical Activity and Sleep Duration Among Adults in Free-Living Conditions: Validation Study

scientific article published on 26 February 2020

Maternal gestational diabetes and childhood obesity at age 9-11: results of a multinational study.

scientific article

Measuring Engagement in eHealth and mHealth Behavior Change Interventions: Viewpoint of Methodologies.

scientific article published on 16 November 2018

Mid-upper arm circumference as a screening tool for identifying children with obesity: a 12-country study.

scientific article published on 30 May 2016

Modelling the contribution of walking between home and school to daily physical activity in primary age children

scientific article published on May 2015

More than just physical activity: Time use clusters and profiles of Australian youth

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No evidence for an epidemiological transition in sleep patterns among children: a 12-country study

scientific article published on 11 December 2017

Nocturnal sleep-related variables from 24-h free-living waist-worn accelerometry: International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment.

scientific article published on 8 December 2015

Normative data on the sleep habits of Australian children and adolescents.

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Obese adolescents are less active than their normal-weight peers, but wherein lies the difference?

scientific article published on 8 October 2010

One day you'll wake up and won't have to go to work: The impact of changes in time use on mental health following retirement.

scientific article

Outdoor time and dietary patterns in children around the world

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Past, Present, and Future of eHealth and mHealth Research to Improve Physical Activity and Dietary Behaviors.

scientific article published in March 2016

Patient Preferences for Receiving Remote Communication Support for Lifestyle Physical Activity Behaviour Change: The Perspective of Patients with Musculoskeletal Disorders from Three Hospital Services

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Patterns and correlates of time use and energy expenditure in older Australian workers: A descriptive study.

scientific article published on 19 May 2016

Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Diet-Related eHealth and mHealth Research: Bibliometric Analysis.

scientific article

Physical Activity, Sedentary Time, and Obesity in an International Sample of Children

scientific article published on 7 March 2015

Physical Education Classes, Physical Activity, and Sedentary Behavior in Children.

scientific article published on 15 December 2017

Physical activity and screen time behaviour in metropolitan, regional and rural adolescents: a -sectional study of Australians aged 9-16 years.

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Physical activity and screen time in out of school hours care: an observational study

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Physical activity predicts quality of life and happiness in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy.

scientific article

Posts, pics, or polls? Which post type generates the greatest engagement in a Facebook physical activity intervention?

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Proportion of children meeting recommendations for 24-hour movement guidelines and associations with adiposity in a 12-country study

scientific article

Psychometric properties of the PERMA Profiler for measuring wellbeing in Australian adults

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Reconsidering the sedentary behaviour paradigm

scientific article published on 15 January 2014

Relationship between lifestyle behaviors and obesity in children ages 9-11: Results from a 12-country study

scientific article published on 14 July 2015

Relationships Between Outdoor Time, Physical Activity, Sedentary Time, and Body Mass Index in Children: A 12-Country Study

scientific article published on 10 October 2018

Relationships between Parental Education and Overweight with Childhood Overweight and Physical Activity in 9-11 Year Old Children: Results from a 12-Country Study

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Relationships between active school transport and adiposity indicators in school-age children from low-, middle- and high-income countries.

scientific article published on 8 December 2015

Relationships between older adults' use of time and cardio-respiratory fitness, obesity and cardio-metabolic risk: A compositional isotemporal substitution analysis

scientific article published on 7 February 2018

Reliability of accelerometer-determined physical activity and sedentary behavior in school-aged children: a 12-country study

scientific article published on 8 December 2015

Screen time is more strongly associated than physical activity with overweight and obesity in 9- to 16-year-old Australians

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Secular trends in the prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity across Australian states: A meta-analysis.

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Sleep characteristics and health-related quality of life in 9- to 11-year-old children from 12 countries

scientific article published on 04 November 2019

Sleep duration or bedtime? Exploring the association between sleep timing behaviour, diet and BMI in children and adolescents.

scientific article published on 8 January 2013

Sleep patterns and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among children from around the world.

scientific article published on 23 April 2018

Socioeconomic status and dietary patterns in children from around the world: different associations by levels of country human development?

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Sources of variability in childhood obesity indicators and related behaviors

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Temporal and bi-directional associations between sleep duration and physical activity/sedentary time in children: An international comparison.

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Test-retest reliability of the English version of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale.

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Testing the activitystat hypothesis: a randomised controlled trial protocol

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Testing the activitystat hypothesis: a randomised controlled trial.

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The ActivityStat hypothesis: the concept, the evidence and the methodologies.

scientific article published on February 2013

The Apples of Academic Performance: Associations Between Dietary Patterns and Academic Performance in Australian Children

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

The Association Between Time-Use Behaviors and Physical and Mental Well-Being in Adults: A Compositional Isotemporal Substitution Analysis

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

The International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment (ISCOLE): design and methods

scientific article

The adiposity of children is associated with their lifestyle behaviours: a cluster analysis of school-aged children from 12 nations

scientific article published on 27 December 2016

The comorbidity of low back pelvic pain and risk of depression and anxiety in pregnancy in primiparous women

scientific article published on 04 July 2018

The compositional isotemporal substitution model: A method for estimating changes in a health outcome for reallocation of time between sleep, physical activity and sedentary behaviour

scientific article published in January 2017

The effectiveness of a web-based computer-tailored physical activity intervention using Fitbit activity trackers: a randomised trial (Preprint) ⬇️

scientific article published on 18 December 2018

The elasticity of time: associations between physical activity and use of time in adolescents.

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The epidemiological transition and the global childhood obesity epidemic.

scientific article published on 8 December 2015

The independent and combined associations of physical activity and sedentary behavior with obesity in adults: NHANES 2003-06

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The place of physical activity in the time budgets of 10- to 13-year-old Australian children.

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The reliability and validity of a research-grade pedometer for children and adolescents with cerebral palsy.

scientific article published on 13 June 2013

The use of standing frames for contracture management for nonmobile children with cerebral palsy

scientific article published on 01 December 2009

The validity of consumer-level, activity monitors in healthy adults worn in free-living conditions: a cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 27 March 2015

Thresholds of physical activity associated with obesity by level of sedentary behaviour in children.

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Time regained: when people stop a physical activity program, how does their time use change? A randomised controlled trial.

scientific article published on 29 May 2015

Time use patterns in ambulatory adolescents with cerebral palsy.

scientific article published on 25 November 2011

Untapping the Health Enhancing Potential of Vigorous Intermittent Lifestyle Physical Activity (VILPA): Rationale, Scoping Review, and a 4-Pillar Research Framework

scientific article published on 26 October 2020

Usability testing and piloting of the Mums Step It Up program--a team-based social networking physical activity intervention for women with young children

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User Engagement and Attrition in an App-Based Physical Activity Intervention: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

Users' experiences of wearable activity trackers: a cross-sectional study.

scientific article

Validity and bias on the online active Australia survey: activity level and participant factors associated with self-report bias

scientific article published on 10 January 2020

Why we need more than just randomized controlled trials to establish the effectiveness of online social networks for health behavior change.

scientific article published in November 2015

List of works by Carol Maher

A Physical Activity and Diet Program Delivered by Artificially Intelligent Virtual Health Coach: Proof-of-Concept Study

A Qualitative Study to Examine Feasibility and Design of an Online Social Networking Intervention to Increase Physical Activity in Teenage Girls.

A Smartphone App to Reduce Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption Among Young Adults in Australian Remote Indigenous Communities: Design, Formative Evaluation and User-Testing.

A Social Networking and Gamified App to Increase Physical Activity: Cluster RCT

A Web-Based, Social Networking Beginners' Running Intervention for Adults Aged 18 to 50 Years Delivered via a Facebook Group: Randomized Controlled Trial.

A Web-Based, Social Networking Physical Activity Intervention for Insufficiently Active Adults Delivered via Facebook App: Randomized Controlled Trial

A model for presenting accelerometer paradata in large studies: ISCOLE.

A pedometer based physical activity self-management program for children and adolescents with physical disability - design and methods of the StepUp study.

Academic Performance and Lifestyle Behaviors in Australian School Children: A Cluster Analysis

Active school transport and weekday physical activity in 9-11-year-old children from 12 countries.

Adiposity and the isotemporal substitution of physical activity, sedentary time and sleep among school-aged children: a compositional data analysis approach.

Advancing health-related cluster analysis methodology: quantification of pairwise activity cluster similarities.

An international comparison of dietary patterns in 9-11-year-old children

Anaerobic tests for wheelchair-using children with cerebral palsy: the 'scroll saw' of the exercise test toolbox?

Anxious or empowered? A cross-sectional study exploring how wearable activity trackers make their owners feel

Are Children Like Werewolves? Full Moon and Its Association with Sleep and Activity Behaviors in an International Sample of Children

Are participant characteristics from ISCOLE study sites comparable to the rest of their country?

Are the correlates of active school transport context-specific?

Association between body mass index and body fat in 9-11-year-old children from countries spanning a range of human development

Association between breakfast frequency and physical activity and sedentary time: a cross-sectional study in children from 12 countries

Association between home and school food environments and dietary patterns among 9-11-year-old children in 12 countries.

Associations between breakfast frequency and adiposity indicators in children from 12 countries.

Associations between meeting combinations of 24-h movement guidelines and health-related quality of life in children from 12 countries

Associations between meeting combinations of 24-hour movement recommendations and dietary patterns of children: A 12-country study

Associations between sleep patterns and lifestyle behaviors in children: an international comparison

Associations of neighborhood social environment attributes and physical activity among 9-11 year old children from 12 countries

At the Mercy of the Gods: Associations Between Weather, Physical Activity, and Sedentary Time in Children

Birth weight and childhood obesity: a 12-country study.

Breastfeeding and childhood obesity: A 12-country study

Can Smartphone Apps Increase Physical Activity? Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Can a school-based sleep education programme improve sleep knowledge, hygiene and behaviours using a randomised controlled trial.

Changes in use of time across retirement: A longitudinal study.

Changes in use of time, activity patterns, and health and wellbeing across retirement: design and methods of the life after work study.

Characteristics of adopters of an online social networking physical activity smartphone app: a cluster analysis (Preprint)

Compositional data analysis for physical activity, sedentary time and sleep research.

Correlates of Total Sedentary Time and Screen Time in 9-11 Year-Old Children around the World: The International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment

Correlates of compliance with recommended levels of physical activity in children.

Creating Engaging Health Promotion Campaigns on Social Media: Observations and Lessons From Fitbit and Garmin

Development and pilot evaluation of a clinic-based mHealth app referral service to support adult cancer survivors increase their participation in physical activity using publicly available mobile apps.

Development and reliability of an audit tool to assess the school physical activity environment across 12 countries

Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together Within a Team-Based Physical Activity Intervention? A Social Network Analysis

Does compliance with healthy lifestyle behaviours cluster within individuals in Australian primary school-aged children?

Does gamification increase engagement with online programs? A systematic review

Does home equipment contribute to socioeconomic gradients in Australian children's physical activity, sedentary time and screen time?

Effectiveness of a facebook-delivered physical activity intervention for post-partum women: a randomized controlled trial protocol

Emotional Eating, Health Behaviours, and Obesity in Children: A 12-Country Cross-Sectional Study

Engagement, compliance and retention with a gamified online social networking physical activity intervention

Epidemiological Transition in Physical Activity and Sedentary Time in Children

Everybody's working for the weekend: changes in enjoyment of everyday activities across the retirement threshold.

Evidence that the prevalence of childhood overweight is plateauing: data from nine countries

Examining social-cognitive theory constructs as mediators of behaviour change in the active team smartphone physical activity program: a mediation analysis

Examining the use of evidence-based and social media supported tools in freely accessible physical activity intervention websites

Factors influencing postural management for children with cerebral palsy in the special school setting.

Fatigue is a major issue for children and adolescents with physical disabilities.

Fitness, fatness and the reallocation of time between children's daily movement behaviours: an analysis of compositional data.

Health-Related Quality of Life and Lifestyle Behavior Clusters in School-Aged Children from 12 Countries

Heavy going but making progress: challenges for increasing physical activity in young people with cerebral palsy

Household-level correlates of children's physical activity levels in and across 12 countries

Human development index, children's health-related quality of life and movement behaviors: a compositional data analysis

Identification of a core set of exercise tests for children and adolescents with cerebral palsy: a Delphi survey of researchers and clinicians

Improving wear time compliance with a 24-hour waist-worn accelerometer protocol in the International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment (ISCOLE)

In search of lost time: When people undertake a new exercise program, where does the time come from? A randomized controlled trial

Individual and School-Level Socioeconomic Gradients in Physical Activity in Australian Schoolchildren.

Inequality in physical activity, sedentary behaviour, sleep duration and risk of obesity in children: a 12-country study.

International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment (ISCOLE): Contributions to Understanding the Global Obesity Epidemic

It's not raining men: a mixed-methods study investigating methods of improving male recruitment to health behaviour research

Joint association of birth weight and physical activity/sedentary behavior with obesity in children ages 9-11 years from 12 countries.

Joint associations between weekday and weekend physical activity or sedentary time and childhood obesity

Life on holidays: differences in activity composition between school and holiday periods in Australian children

Life on holidays: study protocol for a 3-year longitudinal study tracking changes in children's fitness and fatness during the in-school versus summer holiday period

Low-Cost Consumer-Based Trackers to Measure Physical Activity and Sleep Duration Among Adults in Free-Living Conditions: Validation Study

Maternal gestational diabetes and childhood obesity at age 9-11: results of a multinational study.

Measuring Engagement in eHealth and mHealth Behavior Change Interventions: Viewpoint of Methodologies.

Mid-upper arm circumference as a screening tool for identifying children with obesity: a 12-country study.

Modelling the contribution of walking between home and school to daily physical activity in primary age children

More than just physical activity: Time use clusters and profiles of Australian youth

No evidence for an epidemiological transition in sleep patterns among children: a 12-country study

Nocturnal sleep-related variables from 24-h free-living waist-worn accelerometry: International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment.

Normative data on the sleep habits of Australian children and adolescents.