Project

Environmental determinants of physical activity and overweight in children and adolescents

Code
3E002807
Duration
01 October 2007 → 19 October 2010
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Social psychology
    • Education curriculum
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Paediatrics and neonatology
    • Paediatrics and neonatology
    • Public health care
    • Public health sciences
    • Public health services
    • Nursing
    • Paediatrics and neonatology
Keywords
environment physical activity overweight
 
Project description

The purpose of this project is to investigate the relationship between physical environment and physical activity and overweights in children and adolescents. Three different studies will be conducted: 1) a cross-sectional study, 2) laboratory experiments using pictures of different environments and 3) natural experiments in which situation where youngsters naturally moove from one environment to another are studied.