Perception Versus Reality: Awareness of Physical Activity Levels of British Children
Watch and listen as Kristen Corder, from the MRC Epidemiology Unit in Cambridge, discusses her and her colleagues' research about the awareness of physical activity levels among British school children aged 9-10 years and their parents. See also the paper by Corder et al.

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