Journal of Pediatric Health Care
Volume 21, Issue 5 , Pages 315-322 , September 2007

The COPE Healthy Lifestyles TEEN Program: Feasibility, Preliminary Efficacy, & Lessons Learned from an After School Group Intervention with Overweight Adolescents

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 Funding for this study was provided by “Project Believe,” a sponsored initiative of the University of Rochester Medical Center. Sample copies of the COPE Healthy Lifestyles TEEN Program and reprints can be obtained from Dr. Bernadette Melnyk (see address below).

PII: S0891-5245(07)00084-3

doi: 10.1016/j.pedhc.2007.02.009

Journal of Pediatric Health Care
Volume 21, Issue 5 , Pages 315-322 , September 2007

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