Title:recruitment Results among Families Contacted for an Obesity Prevention Intervention: the Opt for Health Study
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Author's response to reviews: The manuscript has been revised to include the following: trial registration number at the end of the abstract (ISRCTN06248443), abbreviations moved above the Competing Interests, Conclusions Section was clearly delineated, author contributions edited to demonstrate that each author meets all three criteria to qualify for authorship, Acknowledgements moved to after the Conclusions Section, the names of the ethical bodies (institutional review boards) and reference numbers that approved the study were moved and added to the Methods Section, and the figure title was added after the Reference List. Please note there is no legend needed for the figure.
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تاریخ انتشار 2014