International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

Article	Citations
Impact of the COVID-19 virus outbreak on movement and play behaviours of Canadian children and youth: a national survey	687
2020 WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour for children and adolescents aged 5–17 years: summary of the evidence	482
Advancing the global physical activity agenda: recommendations for future research by the 2020 WHO physical activity and sedentary behavior guidelines development group	178
Evidence on physical activity and falls prevention for people aged 65+ years: systematic review to inform the WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour	152
Evidence on physical activity and osteoporosis prevention for people aged 65+ years: a systematic review to inform the WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour	125
New global guidelines on sedentary behaviour and health for adults: broadening the behavioural targets	125
Factors influencing physical activity participation among people living with or beyond cancer: a systematic scoping review	100
Seasons, weather, and device-measured movement behaviors: a scoping review from 2006 to 2020	95
Dose–response relationship between physical activity and mortality in adults with noncommunicable diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective observational studies	90
The effects of step-count monitoring interventions on physical activity: systematic review and meta-analysis of community-based randomised controlled trials in adults	89
Global prevalence of physical activity for children and adolescents; inconsistencies, research gaps, and recommendations: a narrative review	88
Which behaviour change techniques are effective to promote physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour in adults: a factorial randomized trial of an e- and m-health intervention	84
A systematic review of artificial intelligence chatbots for promoting physical activity, healthy diet, and weight loss	84
A systematic review and meta-analysis of school-based interventions with health education to reduce body mass index in adolescents aged 10 to 19 years	83
The effectiveness of digital interventions for increasing physical activity in individuals of low socioeconomic status: a systematic review and meta-analysis	82
The impact of physical activity on healthy ageing trajectories: evidence from eight cohort studies	80
Exercise and colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of exercise safety, feasibility and effectiveness	76
Dynamics of the complex food environment underlying dietary intake in low-income groups: a systems map of associations extracted from a systematic umbrella literature review	64
The effectiveness of sedentary behaviour interventions on sitting time and screen time in children and adults: an umbrella review of systematic reviews	62
The effect of leisure time physical activity and sedentary behaviour on the health of workers with different occupational physical activity demands: a systematic review	61
Association of ultra-processed food consumption with cardiovascular mortality in the US population: long-term results from a large prospective multicenter study	59
School-based gardening, cooking and nutrition intervention increased vegetable intake but did not reduce BMI: Texas sprouts - a cluster randomized controlled trial	59
Worldwide surveillance of self-reported sitting time: a scoping review	57
A meta-analysis of the reproducibility of food frequency questionnaires in nutritional epidemiological studies	56
How effective are physical activity interventions when they are scaled-up: a systematic review	56

The impact of exercise interventions concerning executive functions of children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis	56
Systematic review of the correlates of outdoor play and time among children aged 3-12 years	55
Physical activity and sedentary time of youth in structured settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis	53
Inequality in physical activity, global trends by income inequality and gender in adults	52
Mediterranean diet and depression: a population-based cohort study	51
Objective understanding of the Nutri-score front-of-pack label by European consumers and its effect on food choices: an online experimental study	50
National physical activity and sedentary behaviour policies in 76 countries: availability, comprehensiveness, implementation, and effectiveness	50
The effect of social media interventions on physical activity and dietary behaviours in young people and adults: a systematic review	50
Children’s moderate-to-vigorous physical activity on weekdays versus weekend days: a multi-country analysis	49
Walking cadence (steps/min) and intensity in 41 to 60-year-old adults: the CADENCE-adults study	49
Musculoskeletal pain and sedentary behaviour in occupational and non-occupational settings: a systematic review with meta-analysis	46
The effects of nudging and pricing on healthy food purchasing behavior in a virtual supermarket setting: a randomized experiment	46
A scoping review of physical activity interventions for older adults	45
How COVID-19 lockdown and reopening affected daily steps: evidence based on 164,630 person-days of prospectively collected data from Shanghai, China	43
The prevalence of multimorbidity and its association with physical activity and sleep duration in middle aged and elderly adults: a longitudinal analysis from China	43
Comparing and assessing physical activity guidelines for children and adolescents: a systematic literature review and analysis	43
Sociodemographic differences in motives for food selection: results from the LoCard cross-sectional survey	42
Efficacy of the ‘Stand and Move at Work’ multicomponent workplace intervention to reduce sedentary time and improve cardiometabolic risk: a group randomized clinical trial	42
A collaborative approach to adopting/adapting guidelines. The Australian 24-hour movement guidelines for children (5-12 years) and young people (13-17 years): An integration of physical activity, sede	41
The physical activity paradox revisited: a prospective study on compositional accelerometer data and long-term sickness absence	41
Walking cadence (steps/min) and intensity in 61–85-year-old adults: the CADENCE-Adults study	40
A secondary analysis of the childhood obesity prevention Cochrane Review through a wider determinants of health lens: implications for research funders, researchers, policymakers and practitioners	38
Consolidating evidence on the effectiveness of interventions promoting fruit and vegetable consumption: an umbrella review	37
Accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary time among children and their parents in the UK before and after COVID-19 lockdowns: a natural experiment	36
Calorie reformulation: a systematic review and meta-analysis examining the effect of manipulating food energy density on daily energy intake	35
Operationalising the 20-minute neighbourhood	34
Development of an objectively measured walkability index for the Netherlands	33
Different neighborhood walkability indexes for active commuting to school are necessary for urban and rural children and adolescents	33
Invest in physical activity to protect and promote health: the 2020 WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour	32
Physical activity and prospective associations with indicators of health and development in children aged <5 years: a systematic review	32
Cardiorespiratory fitness and lifestyle on severe COVID-19 risk in 279,455 adults: a case control study	32
Demographic characteristics associated with circadian rest-activity rhythm patterns: a cross-sectional study	31
Barriers and facilitators to implementing community-based physical activity interventions: a qualitative systematic review	31
Barriers and facilitators to diet, physical activity and lifestyle behavior intervention adherence: a qualitative systematic review of the literature	30
A systematic review of the validity, reliability, and feasibility of measurement tools used to assess the physical activity and sedentary behaviour of pre-school aged children	30
Identifying effective intervention strategies to reduce children’s screen time: a systematic review and meta-analysis	30
Healthy lifestyle behaviours and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality among 0.9 million Chinese adults	29
Fair play? Participation equity in organised sport and physical activity among children and adolescents in high income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis	29
The relationship between the home environment and child adiposity: a systematic review	29
The effect of a one-year vigorous physical activity intervention on fitness, cognitive performance and mental health in young adolescents: the Fit to Study cluster randomised controlled trial	28
Bullying victimization, physical inactivity and sedentary behavior among children and adolescents: a meta-analysis	27
The ENCOMPASS framework: a practical guide for the evaluation of public health programmes in complex adaptive systems	27
Long-term outcomes (2 and 3.5 years post-intervention) of the INFANT early childhood intervention to improve health behaviors and reduce obesity: cluster randomised controlled trial follow-up	27
Muscle-strengthening activities and cancer incidence and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies	27
Is the perceived neighborhood built environment associated with domain-specific physical activity in Latin American adults? An eight-country observational study	27
Covid-19 lockdown: Ethnic differences in children’s self-reported physical activity and the importance of leaving the home environment; a longitudinal and cross-sectional study from the Born in Bradfo	27
Personalised nutrition advice reduces intake of discretionary foods and beverages: findings from the Food4Me randomised controlled trial	26
The use and misuse of ratio and proportion exposure measures in food environment research	26
Workplace neighbourhood built environment and workers’ physically-active and sedentary behaviour: a systematic review of observational studies	25
Global, regional, and national trends and patterns in physical activity research since 1950: a systematic review	24

Associations of park access, park use and physical activity in parks with wellbeing in an Asian urban environment: a cross-sectional study	24
Trends and correlates of meeting 24-hour movement guidelines: a 15-year study among 167,577 Thai adults	24
Cross-sectional study of changes in physical activity behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic among US adults	24
Physical activity from adolescence to young adulthood: patterns of change, and their associations with activity domains and sedentary time	23
The impact of summer vacation on children’s obesogenic behaviors and body mass index: a natural experiment	23
Parental control and support for physical activity predict adolescents’ moderate to vigorous physical activity over five years	23
Associations between lifestyle interventions during pregnancy and childhood weight and growth: a systematic review and meta-analysis	23
Development of a national childhood obesogenic environment index in the United States: differences by region and rurality	23
Play, Learn, and Teach Outdoors—Network (PLaTO-Net): terminology, taxonomy, and ontology	22
Maternal feeding style and child weight status among Hispanic families with low-income levels: a longitudinal study of the direction of effects	22
Behaviours that prompt primary school teachers to adopt and implement physically active learning: a meta synthesis of qualitative evidence	22
A physical activity coaching intervention can improve and maintain physical activity and health-related outcomes in adult ambulatory hospital patients: the Healthy4U-2 randomised controlled trial	22
Temporal trends in physical activity levels across more than a decade – a national physical activity surveillance system among Norwegian children and adolescents	22
Later sleep timing predicts accelerated summer weight gain among elementary school children: a prospective observational study	22
International school-related sedentary behaviour recommendations for children and youth	21
Lifestyle-integrated functional exercise to prevent falls and promote physical activity: Results from the LiFE-is-LiFE randomized non-inferiority trial	21
The impact of the Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition label on purchasing intentions of unprocessed and processed foods: post-hoc analyses from three randomized controlled trials	21
Association of daily composition of physical activity and sedentary behaviour with incidence of cardiovascular disease in older adults	21
Determinants of changes in women’s and men’s eating behavior across the transition to parenthood: a focus group study	21
Strategies and effects of school-based interventions to promote active school transportation by bicycle among children and adolescents: a systematic review	21
School-related sedentary behaviours and indicators of health and well-being among children and youth: a systematic review	21
Prospective association between organic food consumption and the risk of type 2 diabetes: findings from the NutriNet-Santé cohort study	21
‘Finishing the race’ – a cohort study of weight and blood glucose change among the first 36,000 patients in a large-scale diabetes prevention programme	20
Food environment intervention improves food knowledge, wellbeing and dietary habits in primary school children: Project Daire, a randomised-controlled, factorial design cluster trial	20
The effect of a school-based intervention on physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness and muscle strength: the School in Motion cluster randomized trial	20
Healthy lifestyle, metabolomics and incident type 2 diabetes in a population-based cohort from Spain	20
Longitudinal changes in objectively-measured physical activity and sedentary time among school-age children in Central Texas, US during the COVID-19 pandemic	19
Mechanisms of scaling up: combining a realist perspective and systems analysis to understand successfully scaled interventions	19
How do short sleepers use extra waking hours? A compositional analysis of 24-h time-use patterns among children and adolescents	19
Longitudinal associations between infant movement behaviours and development	19
24-hour movement behaviour profiles and their transition in children aged 5.5 and 8 years – findings from a prospective cohort study	19
Combined effects of continuous exercise and intermittent active interruptions to prolonged sitting on postprandial glucose, insulin, and triglycerides in adults with obesity: a randomized crossover tr	19
Temporal trends in leisure-time sedentary behavior among adolescents aged 12-15 years from 26 countries in Asia, Africa, and the Americas	18
Light-intensity physical activity and mental ill health: a systematic review of observational studies in the general population	18
A whole family-based physical activity promotion intervention: findings from the families reporting every step to health (FRESH) pilot randomised controlled trial	18
Garden-based interventions and early childhood health: an umbrella review	18
Influences on the dietary intakes of preschool children: a systematic scoping review	18
A modified Delphi study to gain consensus for a taxonomy to report and classify physical activity referral schemes (PARS)	18
A compositional analysis of time spent in sleep, sedentary behaviour and physical activity with all-cause mortality risk	18
The theoretical basis of a nationally implemented type 2 diabetes prevention programme: how is the programme expected to produce changes in behaviour?	18
Causal systems mapping to promote healthy living for pandemic preparedness: a call to action for global public health	18
Physical activity and mental health in children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities: a meta-analysis using the RE-AIM framework	18
Scale-up of the Physical Activity 4 Everyone (PA4E1) intervention in secondary schools: 12-month implementation outcomes from a cluster randomized controlled trial	18
Testing front-of-package warnings to discourage red meat consumption: a randomized experiment with US meat consumers	17
Is occupational physical activity associated with mortality in UK Biobank?	17
Evaluating the implementation of the SWITCH® school wellness intervention and capacity-building process through multiple methods	17
Correlates of physical activity behavior in adults: a data mining approach	17
Physical activity from young adulthood to middle age and premature cardiovascular disease events: a 30-year population-based cohort study	17
Behaviour change techniques in cardiovascular disease smartphone apps to improve physical activity and sedentary behaviour: Systematic review and meta-regression	17
We have the program, what now? Development of an implementation plan to bridge the research-practice gap prevalent in exercise oncology	17
Genetic variants related to physical activity or sedentary behaviour: a systematic review	17
Associations of steps per day and step intensity with the risk of diabetes: the Hispanic Community Health Study / Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)	17
The association between recreational screen time and cancer risk: findings from the UK Biobank, a large prospective cohort study	17
The Feeding Practices and Structure Questionnaire: development and validation of age appropriate versions for infants and toddlers	17
Understanding children’s preference for park features that encourage physical activity: an adaptive choice based conjoint analysis	17
Investigating the physical activity, health, wellbeing, social and environmental effects of a new urban greenway: a natural experiment (the PARC study)	17
A systematic review of the use and reporting of evaluation frameworks within evaluations of physical activity interventions	16
Resemblance in accelerometer-assessed physical activity in families with children: the Lolland-Falster Health Study	16
Clinical and patient-centered implementation outcomes of mHealth interventions for type 2 diabetes in low-and-middle income countries: a systematic review	16
Exploring activity compensation amongst youth and adults: a systematic review	16
Planting seeds of change: reconceptualizing what people eat as eating practices and patterns	16
A systematic review of proxy-report questionnaires assessing physical activity, sedentary behavior and/or sleep in young children (aged 0–5 years)	16
Physical activity-mediated associations between perceived neighborhood social environment and depressive symptoms among Jackson Heart Study participants	16
Trajectories of objectively measured physical activity and childhood overweight: longitudinal analysis of the IDEFICS/I.Family cohort	16
The reciprocal effects of physical activity and happiness in adolescents	16
Zero problems with compositional data of physical behaviors: a comparison of three zero replacement methods	16
The use of food swaps to encourage healthier online food choices: a randomized controlled trial	15
Estimated effects of the implementation of the Mexican warning labels regulation on the use of health and nutrition claims on packaged foods	15
Improving children’s fundamental movement skills through a family-based physical activity program: results from the “Active 1 + FUN” randomized controlled trial	15
Barriers and facilitators to physical activity for young adult women: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative literature	15
Association of Changes of lifestyle behaviors before and during the COVID-19 pandemic with mental health: a longitudinal study in children and adolescents	15
Everything counts in sending the right message: science-based messaging implications from the 2020 WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour	15
Impacts of the 2008 Great Recession on dietary intake: a systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Associations of ultra-processed food intake with maternal weight change and cardiometabolic health and infant growth	15
Healthy eating and all-cause mortality among Chinese aged 80 years or older	15
Reliability of GENEActiv accelerometers to estimate sleep, physical activity, and sedentary time in children	15
The impact of shelf tags with Nutri-Score on consumer purchases: a difference-in-difference analysis of a natural experiment in supermarkets of a major retailer in Belgium	15
Socioeconomic inequalities in effectiveness of and compliance to workplace health promotion programs: an individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis	15
Eating behaviors, dietary patterns and weight status in emerging adulthood and longitudinal associations with eating behaviors in early childhood	14
Development of physical activity policy and implementation strategies for early childhood education and care settings using the Delphi process	14

The impact of school uniforms on primary school student’s physical activity at school: outcomes of a cluster randomized controlled trial	14
Effects of a three-armed randomised controlled trial using self-monitoring of daily steps with and without counselling in prediabetes and type 2 diabetes—the Sophia Step Study	14
Effect of novel technology-enabled multidimensional physical activity feedback in primary care patients at risk of chronic disease – the MIPACT study: a randomised controlled trial	14
Trajectories of 24-h movement guidelines from middle adolescence to adulthood on depression and suicidal ideation: a 22-year follow-up study	14
The health, cost and equity impacts of restrictions on the advertisement of high fat, salt and sugar products across the transport for London network: a health economic modelling study	14
Effects of the KEIGAAF intervention on the BMI z-score and energy balance-related behaviors of primary school-aged children	14
Barriers and facilitators to implementation of direct fruit and vegetables provision interventions in kindergartens and schools: a qualitative systematic review applying the consolidated framework for	14
Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of active travel, organised sport and physical education with accelerometer-assessed moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in young people: the Internati	14