Youth Motivations for Program Participation
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Afterschool program participation, youth physical fitness, and overweight.
BACKGROUND Fighting childhood obesity has become a key policy focus. The role of community-based interventions to promote physical activity is an important part of an overall strategy to increase physical activity for youth. PURPOSE This study examines whether community-based afterschool physical activity programs lead to improved youth fitness and lower obesity rates. METHODS Individually ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Youth Development
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2325-4017,2325-4009
DOI: 10.5195/jyd.2016.457