Code
3E002807
Duration
01 October 2007 → 19 October 2010
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Social psychology
- Education curriculum
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Medical and health sciences
- Pediatrics and neonatology
- Pediatrics and neonatology
- Public health care
- Public health sciences
- Public health services
- Nursing
- Pediatrics 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.