Chronic diseases are a major health problem worldwide, especially in lower-income jurisdictions. Considering this scenario, the World Health Organization has recently established, as a research priority, preventive interventions for populations from lowe
Table 1. Socio-demographic characteristics and body weight status of grade five students participating in the 2014 REAL Kids Alberta survey (n = 2866). 3.2. Health Behaviour Patterns The fit statistics of the latent class analysis for deriving the health behaviour patterns are presented in Table...
Male (n = 84) and female (n = 103) athletes aged 11 to 18 years were recruited from the province of Alberta through sporting communities and the public school system. The term “athlete” was defined as competing at the city level or higher and training ≥5 h per week. A sample size...
(CLSA) is provided by the Government of Canada through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) under grant reference: LSA 94473 and the Canada Foundation for Innovation, as well as the following provinces, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia...