An assessment of health behavior peer effects in Peking University dormitories: a randomized cluster-assignment design for interference.

BACKGROUND: Relatively little is known about the peer influence in health behaviors within university dormitory rooms. Moreover, in China, the problem of unhealthy behaviors among university students has not yet been sufficiently recognized. We thus investigated health behavior peer influence in Pek...

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Main Authors: Changzheng Yuan, Jun Lv, Tyler J VanderWeele
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3767642?pdf=render