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Measuring the neighborhood environment: associations with young girls' energy intake and expenditure in a cross-sectional study

Cindy W Leung1, Steven E Gregorich2, Barbara A Laraia3, Lawrence H Kushi4 and Irene H Yen2*

1 Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 USA

2 Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite 335, Box 0856, San Francisco, CA 94143-0856 USA

3 Division of Prevention Sciences, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite 465, San Francisco, CA 94118 USA

4 Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612 USA

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International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2010, 7:52 doi:10.1186/1479-5868-7-52

Published: 1 June 2010

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Neighborhood Audit Tool Items, Standardized Regression Coefficients, and Raw Cronbach's Alphas for Scales Derived From Exploratory Factor Analysis. This file describes the results from exploratory factor analysis, including the individual neighborhood audit tool items, standardized regression coefficients, and raw Cronbach's alphas for each of the five derived scales.

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