School Level Contextual Factors Are Associated With the Weight Status of Adolescent Males and Females
Open Access
- 1 June 2008
- Vol. 16 (6), 1324-1330
- https://doi.org/10.1038/oby.2008.48
Abstract
Objective: To determine whether school context influences the BMI of adolescent males and females. Methods and Procedures: Our sample was 17,007 adolescents (aged 12–19) from the National Longitudina...Keywords
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