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Elaine M Rutkowski1, Cynthia D Connelly
1Department of Nursing, California State University, Fullerton, CA, USA. emrutkowski@cox.net
Abstract:
Health risk knowledge has been identified as a key to making informed decisions regarding healthy lifestyle choices (J. Swift, C. Glazebrook, & I. Macdonald, 2005). This article describes a descriptive, correlation study conducted with adolescents and their parents to examine the relationship between obesity risk knowledge and physical activity levels in families of adolescents. A statistically significant inverse relationship is found between parental physical activities and the activity levels of adolescents (r = -.23, p<.05). Although a relationship between physical activity and obesity risk knowledge in parents is supported, the phenomenon is not found in adolescent participants.
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