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Adolescent girls' and parents' views on recruiting and retaining girls into an after-school dance intervention: Implications for extra-curricular physical activity provision (2011)
Journal Article
Jago, R., Davis, L., McNeill, J., Sebire, S. J., Haase, A., Powell, J., & Cooper, A. R. (2011). Adolescent girls' and parents' views on recruiting and retaining girls into an after-school dance intervention: Implications for extra-curricular physical activity provision. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 8(91), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1186/1479-5868-8-91

Background: Many adolescents are not sufficiently active and girls are less active than boys. Physical activity interventions delivered during curriculum time have reported weak effects. More sustained changes in physical activity may be obtained by... Read More about Adolescent girls' and parents' views on recruiting and retaining girls into an after-school dance intervention: Implications for extra-curricular physical activity provision.

An applied ecological framework for evaluating infrastructure to promote walking and cycling: The iconnect study (2011)
Journal Article
Preston, J., Brand, C., Cooper, A. R., Ogilvie, D., Bull, F., Powell, J., …Rutter, H. (2011). An applied ecological framework for evaluating infrastructure to promote walking and cycling: The iconnect study. American Journal of Public Health, 101(3), 473-481. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2010.198002

Improving infrastructure for walking and cycling is increasingly recommended as a means to promote physical activity, prevent obesity, and reduce traffic congestion and carbon emissions. However, limited evidence from intervention studies exists to s... Read More about An applied ecological framework for evaluating infrastructure to promote walking and cycling: The iconnect study.