School Design and Physical Activity Among Middle School Girls
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School design and physical activity among middle school girls.
Building design and grounds might contribute to physical activity, and youth spend much of their daylight hours at school. We examined the associations among school building footprints, the size of school grounds, and in-school physical activity of 1566 sixth-grade girls from medium to large middle schools enrolled in the Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls (TAAG). The school building footpr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Physical Activity and Health
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1543-3080,1543-5474
DOI: 10.1123/jpah.5.5.719