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A Coordinated Comprehensive Professional Development Training's Effect on Summer Day Camp Staff Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Promoting Behaviors

scientific article published on August 2014

A comprehensive professional development training's effect on afterschool program staff behaviors to promote healthy eating and physical activity

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A conceptual model for training after-school program staffers to promote physical activity and nutrition

scientific article published on April 2012

A pictorial view of the physical activity socialization of young adolescents outside of school

scientific article published in December 2011

Accelerometer-derived physical activity levels of preschoolers: A meta-analysis

scientific article published on November 1, 2011

Accuracy of pedometer steps and time for youth with disabilities.

scientific article published in July 2007

Accuracy of pedometer steps and time for youth with intellectual disabilities during dynamic movements

scientific article published on 01 October 2009

Accuracy of voice-announcement pedometers for youth with visual impairment.

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Advocating widespread dissemination of physical activity programs in the afterschool setting: The need for more evidence

scientific article published in September 2012

After-school program impact on physical activity and fitness: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 11 April 2009

An Intervention to Increase Students' Physical Activity: A 2-Year Pilot Study

scientific article published on 18 June 2018

Application of the Rosetta Stone to understand how much MVPA preschoolers accumulate: A systematic review

scientific article published on 23 February 2017

Are We There Yet? Compliance with Physical Activity Standards in YMCA Afterschool Programs

scientific article published on 20 April 2016

Are current body mass index referenced pedometer step-count recommendations applicable to US youth?

scientific article published in September 2008

Association of environment and policy characteristics on children's moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and time spent sedentary in afterschool programs

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Association of father involvement and neighborhood quality with kindergartners' physical activity: a multilevel structural equation model

scientific article published in January 2008

Associations of Objectively Measured Vigorous Physical Activity With Body Composition, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, and Cardiometabolic Health in Youth: A Review

scientific article published on 06 January 2016

Associations of Vigorous-Intensity Physical Activity with Biomarkers in Youth.

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Behavioral Correlates of Muscular Fitness in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Breaking tradition: Increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary time of children with developmental disabilities

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Brief Report: Obesogenic Behaviors of Children with Developmental Disabilities During Summer

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

Changes in Children's Sleep and Physical Activity During a One-week versus a Three-week Break from School: A natural experiment

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Children select unhealthy choices when given a choice among snack offerings

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Children's Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity Attending Summer Day Camps

scientific article published on 14 February 2017

Children's Obesogenic Behaviors During Summer Versus School: A Within-Person Comparison

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Choosing between responsive-design websites versus mobile apps for your mobile behavioral intervention: presenting four case studies.

scientific article published on 3 November 2016

Classification of physical activity intensities using a wrist-worn accelerometer in 8-12-year-old children

scientific article published on 20 April 2015

Clusters of non-dietary obesogenic behaviors among adolescents in Brazil: a latent profile analysis

scientific article published on 06 July 2020

Community partnership to address snack quality and cost in after-school programs

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Comparing measures of free-living sleep in school-aged children

scientific article published on 18 April 2019

Comparison of 3 different analytic approaches for determining risk-related active and sedentary behavioral patterns in adolescents

scientific article published on 01 May 2010

Comparison of multichannel and single channel wrist-based devices with polysomnography to measure sleep in youth

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Comparison of objectively measured physical activity levels of rural, suburban, and urban youth

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Comparison of traditional versus mobile app self-monitoring of physical activity and dietary intake among overweight adults participating in an mHealth weight loss program

scientific article published on 21 February 2013

Compliance With National Guidelines for Physical Activity in U.S. Preschoolers: Measurement and Interpretation

scientific article published on March 21, 2011

Compliance With the Healthy Eating Standards in YMCA After-School Programs

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Contribution of Physical Education and Sport to Health-Related Fitness in High School Students

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Converting between estimates of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity derived from raw accelerations measured at the wrist and from ActiGraph counts measured at the hip: the Rosetta Stone

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Creating a Physical Activity Self-Report Form for Youth Using Rasch Methodology

scientific article published on January 2016

Daring to share requires intentional and collective commitment to civil discourse

scientific article published on 07 April 2020

Day of the week is associated with meeting physical activity recommendations and engaging in excessive sedentary time in youth

scientific article published on 10 May 2012

Defining standards and policies for promoting physical activity in afterschool programs

scientific article published on August 2010

Describing the Use of the Internet for Health, Physical Activity, and Nutrition Information in Pregnant Women

scientific article published on October 1, 2013

Determinants of Attendance at a Physical Activity Focused Afterschool Program in Elementary School Children.

scientific article published in May 2018

Development of the System for Observing Student Movement in Academic Routines and Transitions (SOSMART).

scientific article published on 7 July 2016

Disparities by household income and race/ethnicity: the utility of BMI for surveilling excess adiposity in children

scientific article published on 08 March 2019

Disparities in childhood overweight and obesity by income in the United States: an epidemiological examination using three nationally representative datasets

scientific article published on 04 February 2019

Dynamics of Sleep, Sedentary Behavior and MVPA on School versus Non-School Days

scientific article published on 07 September 2020

Economic evaluation of a group randomized controlled trial on healthy eating and physical activity in afterschool programs.

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Effectiveness of a Playground Intervention for Antisocial, Prosocial, and Physical Activity Behaviors.

scientific article published on May 2017

Effects of Ready for Recess, An Environmental Intervention, on Physical Activity in Third-Through Sixth-Grade Children

scientific article published on January 30, 2013

Effects of a competency-based professional development training on children's physical activity and staff physical activity promotion in summer day camps

scientific article published on January 2014

Effects of a policy-level intervention on children's pedometer-determined physical activity: preliminary findings from Movin' Afterschool

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Elementary Classroom Teachers' Self-Reported Use of Movement Integration Products and Perceived Facilitators and Barriers Related to Product Use

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

Environmental modifications to increase physical activity during recess: preliminary findings from ready for recess

scientific article published in September 2011

Equating accelerometer estimates among youth: The Rosetta Stone 2.

scientific article published on 23 February 2015

Equating accelerometer estimates of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity: In search of the Rosetta Stone

scientific article published on April 27, 2011

Evaluation of GoGirlGo!; A practitioner based program to improve physical activity

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Evaluation of a comprehensive school physical activity program: Be a Champion!

scientific article published on 02 May 2019

Evaluation of a statewide dissemination and implementation of physical activity intervention in afterschool programs: a nonrandomized trial

scientific article published on 20 March 2017

Evaluation of compliance to national nutrition policies in summer day camps

scientific article published on 9 June 2014

Evaluation of policies to promote physical activity in afterschool programs: are we meeting current benchmarks?

scientific article published on 15 July 2010

Everything you wanted to know about selecting the “right” Actigraph accelerometer cut-points for youth, but…: A systematic review

scientific article published on 04 February 2012

Examining the impact of a summer learning program on children's weight status and cardiorespiratory fitness: A natural experiment

scientific article published on 18 February 2019

Exercise Dose and Weight Loss in Adolescents with Overweight-Obesity: A Meta-Regression

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Factors influencing implementation of a preschool-based physical activity intervention

scientific article published on February 2017

First year physical activity findings from turn up the HEAT (Healthy Eating and Activity Time) in summer day camps.

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Fitness vs. fatness on all-cause mortality: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 11 October 2013

From policy to practice: addressing snack quality, consumption, and price in after-school programs

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From policy to practice: strategies to meet physical activity standards in YMCA afterschool programs

scientific article published on March 2014

Healthy eating in summer day camps: the Healthy Lunchbox Challenge

scientific article published on 17 January 2014

How many steps/day are enough? for children and adolescents

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How physically active are children attending summer day camps?

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Identification and evaluation of risk of generalizability biases in pilot versus efficacy/effectiveness trials: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

Identifying Strategies Programs Adopt to Meet Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Standards in Afterschool Programs.

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Identifying and Quantifying the Unintended Variability in Common Systematic Observation Instruments to Measure Youth Physical Activity

scientific article published on 10 May 2018

Impact of policy environment characteristics on physical activity and sedentary behaviors of children attending afterschool programs

scientific article published on 9 October 2012

Impact of trained champions of comprehensive school physical activity programs on school physical activity offerings, youth physical activity and sedentary behaviors.

scientific article published on 23 August 2014

Income, Race and its Association with Obesogenic Behaviors of U.S. Children and Adolescents, NHANES 2003-2006

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Increasing fruit, vegetable and water consumption in summer day camps--3-year findings of the healthy lunchbox challenge

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Initial Outcomes of a Participatory-Based, Competency-Building Approach to Increasing Physical Education Teachers' Physical Activity Promotion and Students' Physical Activity: A Pilot Study

scientific article published in September 2017

Intervention leads to improvements in the nutrient profile of snacks served in afterschool programs: a group randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on September 2016

Making Healthy Eating Policy Practice: A Group Randomized Controlled Trial on Changes in Snack Quality, Costs, and Consumption in After-School Programs

scientific article published on 9 July 2015

Making healthy eating and physical activity policy practice: process evaluation of a group randomized controlled intervention in afterschool programs

scientific article published on December 2015

Making healthy eating and physical activity policy practice: the design and overview of a group randomized controlled trial in afterschool programs

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Making policy practice in afterschool programs: a randomized controlled trial on physical activity changes

scientific article published on June 2015

Maximizing children's physical activity using the LET US Play principles

scientific article published on 9 April 2015

Measurement of physical activity in older adult interventions: a systematic review.

scientific article published on 14 August 2015

Measuring physical activity in older adults: calibrating cut-points for the MotionWatch 8(©)

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Moving Forward with Backward Compatibility: Translating Wrist Accelerometer Data

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New Perspective on Factors Related to Coalition Success: Novel Findings From an Investigation of Physical Activity Coalitions Across the United States

scientific article published on 12 February 2015

Nutritional policies and standards for snacks served in after-school programmes: a review

scientific article published on June 2011

One-mile run/walk and body mass index of an ethnically diverse sample of youth

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Organizational member involvement in physical activity coalitions across the United States: development and testing of a novel survey instrument for assessing coalition functioning

scientific article published on 12 November 2014

Parental social support and the physical activity-related behaviors of youth: a review.

scientific article published on 20 August 2010

Pedometer-Determined Step-Count Guidelines for Afterschool Programs

scientific article published on 01 January 2012

Pedometer-measured physical activity patterns of youth: a 13-country review

scientific article published on February 2010

Physical Activity Behavior and Related Characteristics of Highly Active Eighth-Grade Girls

scientific article published on February 4, 2013

Physical Activity Opportunities of Low-Income Elementary School-Aged Children During the Segmented School Day

scientific article published on 09 August 2020

Physical activity and healthy eating environmental audit tools in youth care settings: A systematic review

scientific article published on 9 May 2015

Physical activity and sedentary time of youth in structured settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 04 December 2020

Physical activity in after-school programs: comparison with physical activity policies.

scientific article published on 5 February 2014

Physical activity levels of adolescent girls during dance classes

scientific article published on 09 May 2011

Physical activity levels of children with intellectual disabilities during school

scientific article published in August 2009

Physical activity of children attending afterschool programs: research- and practice-based implications

scientific article published in February 2012

Physical activity opportunities in afterschool programs.

scientific article published on 13 January 2015

Physical activity outcomes in afterschool programs: A group randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 7 July 2016

Physical education's role in public health: steps forward and backward over 20 years and HOPE for the future

scientific article published on June 2012

Physical fitness and depressive symptoms during army basic combat training

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Process Evaluation of Making HEPA Policy Practice: A Group Randomized Trial

scientific article published on 22 May 2016

Process evaluation of an intervention to increase child activity levels in afterschool programs

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Progressive aerobic cardiovascular endurance run and body mass index among an ethnically diverse sample of 10-15-year-olds

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Promoting children's health through physically active math classes: a pilot study

scientific article published on 25 March 2009

Promoting physical activity in Out-of-School-Time programs: we built the bridge--can we walk over it?

scientific article published on 28 October 2014

Qualitative evaluation of GoGirlGo! Insights from staff on using a curriculum within after-school programs to improve physical activity

scientific article published on 17 October 2014

Rethinking Behavioral Approaches to Compliment Biological Advances to Understand the Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment of Childhood Obesity

scientific article published on 29 May 2019

Salty or sweet? Nutritional quality, consumption, and cost of snacks served in afterschool programs

scientific article published on February 2015

Sedentary Behavior in Preschoolers: How Many Days of Accelerometer Monitoring Is Needed?

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Sedentary time and vigorous physical activity are independently associated with cardiorespiratory fitness in middle school youth

scientific article published on 28 May 2013

Sex moderates associations between perceptions of the physical and social environments and physical activity in youth

scientific article published on 20 December 2013

Social Jetlag Is Associated With Adiposity in Children

scientific article published on 04 December 2018

Social support and youth physical activity: the role of provider and type

scientific article published in May 2006

Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) position statement: SBM supports curbing summertime weight gain among America's youth

scientific article published on 28 June 2017

Staff's perceptions of the use of evidence-based physical activity promotion strategies for promoting girls' physical activity at afterschool programs: a qualitative study

scientific article published on 12 April 2014

Statewide dissemination and implementation of physical activity standards in afterschool programs: two-year results.

scientific article published on 3 July 2018

Strategies to Increase After-School Program Staff Skills to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity

scientific article published on 8 June 2015

Structure of Physical Activity Opportunities Contribution to Children's Physical Activity Levels in After-School Programs

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Summer Weight Gain and Fitness Loss: Causes and Potential Solutions

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System for Observing Staff Promotion of Activity and Nutrition (SOSPAN)

scientific article published on January 28, 2013

Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Multi-Component Interventions Through Schools to Increase Physical Activity

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The Application of an Implementation Science Framework to Comprehensive School Physical Activity Programs: Be a Champion!

scientific article published in January 2017

The Healthy Afterschool Activity and Nutrition Documentation Instrument

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

The application of mHealth to monitor implementation of best practices to support healthy eating and physical activity in afterschool programs

scientific article published on 29 May 2018

The effect of reintegrating Actigraph accelerometer counts in preschool children: Comparison using different epoch lengths

scientific article published on June 30, 2012

The efficacy of a 9-month treadmill walking program on the exercise capacity and weight reduction for adolescents with severe autism

scientific article published in July 2007

The impact of summer programming on the obesogenic behaviors of children: behavioral outcomes from a quasi-experimental pilot trial

scientific article published on 28 May 2020

The impact of summer vacation on children's obesogenic behaviors and body mass index: a natural experiment

scientific article published on 26 November 2020

The need for synergy between biological and behavioral approaches to address accelerated weight gain during the summer in children

scientific article published on 29 April 2019

The potential of a year-round school calendar for maintaining children's weight status and fitness: Preliminary outcomes from a natural experiment

scientific article published on 23 May 2019

The role of self-efficacy and referent specific social support in promoting rural adolescent girls' physical activity

scientific article published in May 2007

The theory of expanded, extended, and enhanced opportunities for youth physical activity promotion

scientific article published on 16 November 2016

Time spent in sedentary behavior and changes in childhood BMI: a longitudinal study from ages 9 to 15 years

scientific article published on 20 March 2012

Translating policies into practice: a framework to prevent childhood obesity in afterschool programs

article by Michael W Beets et al published March 2013 in Health Promotion Practice

Turn up the healthy eating and activity time (HEAT): Physical activity outcomes from a 4-year non-randomized controlled trial in summer day camps

scientific article published on 14 January 2020

Tweet for health: using an online social network to examine temporal trends in weight loss-related posts

scientific article published on June 2015

Two-Year Healthy Eating Outcomes: An RCT in Afterschool Programs.

scientific article published on 19 May 2017

Understanding differences between summer vs. school obesogenic behaviors of children: the structured days hypothesis

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Understanding the real value of youth physical activity promotion

scientific article published on 27 November 2014

Using hands-on demonstrations to promote cooking behaviors with young adolescents: the Culinary Camp summer cooking program

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Using pedometers to measure moderate-to-vigorous physical activity for youth with an intellectual disability

scientific article published on 8 April 2010

Validity and Wearability of Consumer-based Fitness Trackers in Free-living Children

Validity of Wrist-Worn photoplethysmography devices to measure heart rate: A systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 19 June 2020

Which US States Pose the Greatest Threats to Military Readiness and Public Health? Public Health Policy Implications for a Cross-sectional Investigation of Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Body Mass Index, and Injuries Among US Army Recruits

scientific article published on 9 January 2018

Wrist-Based Accelerometer Cut-Points to Identify Sedentary Time in 5⁻11-Year-Old Children

scientific article published on 26 September 2018