Promoting physical activity in middle school girls: Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls

LS Webber, DJ Catellier, LA Lytle, DM Murray… - American journal of …, 2008 - Elsevier
… control schools as measured by self-report. In Belgium, a middle school physical activity and
… positive intervention effects on physical activity for both boys and girls 18 and on BMI for …

Proximity to school and physical activity among middle school girls: the trial of activity for adolescent girls study

DA Cohen, S Ashwood, M Scott… - … of Physical Activity …, 2006 - journals.humankinetics.com
… of physical activity. We examined the association between distance from school and physical
activity in adolescent girls. … grade girls who participated in the Trial of Activity for Adolescent …

Structured physical activity and psychosocial correlates in middle-school girls

DJ Barr-Anderson, DR Young, JF Sallis… - Preventive …, 2007 - Elsevier
… -randomized trial designed to test school and community interventions to reduce the decline
in moderate to vigorous physical activity among middle-school girls. TAAG is a collaborative …

[HTML][HTML] Tracking of physical activity and inactivity in middle school girls

CD Baggett, J Stevens, RG McMurray… - Medicine and science …, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… Tracking of inactivity and physical activity in middle school girls was fair-to-moderate. Our
results suggest that physical activity and inactivity habits are dynamic for most girls during early …

Age-related changes in types and contexts of physical activity in middle school girls

RR Pate, JF Sallis, DS Ward, J Stevens… - American Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
physical activity intervention in middle school girls recruited from six communities in the US
8 Six middle schools … , for a total of 36 middle schools; three schools in each community were …

School design and physical activity among middle school girls

D Cohen, M Scott, FZ Wang… - … of physical activity …, 2008 - journals.humankinetics.com
school design and light physical activity (LPA) and MVPA during school hours, we examined
36 middle schools that participated in the Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls (TAAG) and …

Objectively assessed associations between physical activity and body composition in middle-school girls: the Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls

J Stevens, DM Murray, CD Baggett… - American journal of …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
… Our purpose in this study was to determine levels of physical activity associated with cross-…
free-living population of middle-school girls, using an objective measure of physical activity. …

Correlates of physical activity in black, Hispanic, and white middle school girls

EB Kelly, D Parra-Medina… - … of Physical Activity …, 2010 - journals.humankinetics.com
physical activity among diverse samples of girls. This study examined correlates of
moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) among adolescent girls … Methods: 1,180 6th grade …

What Are Middle-School Girls Looking for in Physical Education?.

SL Gibbons, L Humbert - Canadian Journal of Education, 2008 - ERIC
… , the middle school girls in our study wanted a wider variety of physical activity offerings in
… The girls who participated in this study disliked the predominance of team sports, frequently …

Promotion of physical activity among high-school girls: a randomized controlled trial

RR Pate, DS Ward, RP Saunders… - … journal of public …, 2005 - ajph.aphapublications.org
… Our findings suggest that the number of girls who meet a vigorous physical activity standard
31 would be increased by more than 500 000 if all US high schools adopted programs …