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Open AccessAssociations of habitual sedentary time with executive functioning and short-term memory in 7th and 8th grade adolescents
While there is increasing evidence for negative physical health consequences of high volumes of sedentary time and prolonged sedentary time in adolescents, the association with cognition is less clear. This st...
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Open AccessHow contact patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic are related to pre-pandemic contact patterns and mobility trends
Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were adopted in Belgium in order to decrease social interactions between people and as such decrease viral transmission of SARS-CoV-2. With the aim to better evaluate th...
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Open AccessComparing the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 across age groups considering sampling biases - use of testing data of autumn 2021 in Belgium
To design efficient mitigation measures against COVID-19, understanding the transmission dynamics between different age groups was crucial. The role of children in the pandemic has been intensely debated and i...
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Open AccessEffects of a family-based lifestyle intervention on co-physical activity and other health-related outcomes of fathers and their children: the ‘Run Daddy Run’ intervention
Fathers are important in establishing healthy behaviors in their children, but are rarely engaged in lifestyle programs. Focusing on physical activity (PA) of both fathers and their children by engaging them t...
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Open AccessApplication of machine learning to predict transport modes from GPS, accelerometer, and heart rate data
There has been an increased focus on active transport, but the measurement of active transport is still difficult and error-prone. Sensor data have been used to predict active transport. While heart rate data ...
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Open AccessSelf-reported lifestyle behaviours in families with an increased risk for type 2 diabetes across six European countries: a cross-sectional analysis from the Feel4Diabetes-study
A healthy lifestyle decreases the risk of develo** type 2 diabetes mellitus. The current cross-sectional study aimed to describe self-reported lifestyle behaviours and compare them to current health guidelin...
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Different Effects of a School-Based Physical Activity Intervention on Health-related Quality of Life
School-based physical activity benefits the health and well-being of children and youth, but students’ activity levels are different. The aim of this study is to evaluate the intervention effect of a school-ba...
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Open AccessCorrection to: The association between area deprivation and COVID-19 incidence: a municipality-level spatio-temporal study in Belgium, 2020–2021
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Open AccessThe association between area deprivation and COVID-19 incidence: a municipality-level spatio-temporal study in Belgium, 2020–2021
In Belgium, current research on socio-economic inequalities in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis has mainly focused on excess mortality and data from the first epidemiological wave. The current st...
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Open AccessConceptual causal framework to assess the effect of SARS-CoV-2 variants on COVID-19 disease severity among hospitalized patients
SARS-CoV-2 strains evolve continuously and accumulate mutations in their genomes over the course of the pandemic. The severity of a SARS-CoV-2 infection could partly depend on these viral genetic characteristi...
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Open AccessBidirectional associations between sedentary time and sleep duration among 12- to 14-year-old adolescents
The aim of this study was to investigate bidirectional associations between (prolonged) sitting time and sleep duration in 12- to 14-year-old adolescents using a between-subjects and within-subjects analyses a...
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Open AccessThe effect of a cluster-randomized controlled trial on lifestyle behaviors among families at risk for develo** type 2 diabetes across Europe: the Feel4Diabetes-study
This study investigated the effect of the Feel4Diabetes-intervention, a 2-year multilevel intervention, on energy balance-related behaviors among European families at risk for develo** type 2 diabetes. Inter...
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Psycho-social factors related to obesity and their associations with socioeconomic characteristics: the RECORD study
We aimed to describe the main psycho-social factors related to obesity in an adult population and to develop a unified construct (psycho-social profiles), to explore the associations between socioeconomic char...
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Open AccessCombining sensor tracking with a GPS-based mobility survey to better measure physical activity in trips: public transport generates walking
Policymakers need accurate data to develop efficient interventions to promote transport physical activity. Given the imprecise assessment of physical activity in trips, our aim was to illustrate novel advances...
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Open AccessINTERACT: A comprehensive approach to assess urban form interventions through natural experiments
Urban form interventions can result in positive and negative impacts on physical activity, social participation, and well-being, and inequities in these outcomes. Natural experiment studies can advance our und...
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Open AccessWhat happened in the ‘Move for Well-being in School’: a process evaluation of a cluster randomized physical activity intervention using the RE-AIM framework
The aim of this study was to address the gap in the translation of research into practice through an extensive process evaluation of the Move for Well-being in School programme using the RE-AIM framework. The pur...
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Open AccessAn evaluation of transport mode shift policies on transport-related physical activity through simulations based on random forests
Physical inactivity is widely recognized as one of the leading causes of mortality, and transport accounts for a large part of people’s daily physical activity. This study develops a simulation approach to eva...
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Open AccessActive transportation and public transportation use to achieve physical activity recommendations? A combined GPS, accelerometer, and mobility survey study
Accurate information is lacking on the extent of transportation as a source of physical activity, on the physical activity gains from public transportation use, and on the extent to which population shifts in ...
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Quality of Life in Adolescents with a Disability and Their Parents: The Mediating Role of Social Support and Resilience
The aim of this study was to test whether the effect of the pile-up of demands associated with a disability on quality of life, was mediated by resilience, quantity and quality of social support for adolescent...
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Open AccessAlcohol and cannabis use among adolescents in Flemish secondary school in Brussels: effects of type of education
Research regarding socio-economic differences in alcohol and drug use in adolescence yields mixed results. This study hypothesizes that (1) when using education type as a proxy of one's social status, clear di...
