Journal Articles

Mark LeGear, Lizette Greyling, Erin Sloan, Rick I Bell, Buffy-Lynne Williams, Patti-Jean Naylor and Viviene A Temple. (2012). A window of opportunity? Motor skills and perceptions of competence of children in Kindergarten. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 9:29. doi:10.1186/1479-5868-9-29.

Naylor, PJ., Temple, V. A. (2011 on-line). Enhancing the capacity to facilitate physical activity in home-based child care settings. Health Promotion Practice, doi: 1524839910393280.

Tomlin D, Naylor PJ, McKay H, Zorzi A, Mitchell M, Panagiotopoulos C., (2011 on-line ahead of print). The impact of Action Schools! BC on the health of Aboriginal children and youth living in rural and remote communities in British Columbia International Journal of Circumpolar Health 70:x 2011.

Vander Wekken S, Soerenson, S., Meldrum, J. Naylor, P.J. (2011 on-line). Exploring industry perspectives on implementation of a provincial policy for food and beverage sales in publicly funded recreation facilities. Health Policy, doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2011.11.014.

Naylor, PJ, Strange, K., Kopelow, B., Fenton, J., Li, L., Burrows, M., Wharf-Higgins, J., McKay, H. (2011). A creative brief for physical activity messaging. Physical Health Education Journal, 77(3) 6-11.

Trinh L, Wilson R, MacLeod Williams H, Sum AJ, Naylor PJ. (2011). Physicians promoting physical activity using pedometers and community partnerships: A real world trial. Br J Sports Med. Published Online First: 31 January 2011 doi:10.1136/bjsm.2009.069567.

Casiro, N.S., Rhodes, R.E, Naylor, P.J., McKay, H.A. (2011). Intergenerational and Personal Physical Activity of Parents:  A comparison of Correlates American Journal of Health Behavior. 35(1), 81-91.

Naylor, P.J. VanderWekken, S., Trill, D., Kirbyson, A. (2010). Facilitating Healthier Food Environments in Public Recreation Facilities: Results of a Pilot Project in British Columbia. Journal of Park and Recreation Administration. 28(4), 37-58.

Aznar, S., Naylor, P.J., Silva, P., Perez, M., Angulo, T., Laguna, M., Lara, M.T., Lopez-Chicharro, J. (2010). Patterns of physical activity in Spanish children: a descriptive pilot study. Child: care, health and development, doi:10.111/j.1365-2214.2010.01175x., p.1 -7.

Zebedee, J., Gibbons, S.L., Naylor, P.J. (2010). Family influence on physical activity: Exploring the nature of reciprocal relationships. PHEnex Journal, 2(3), 1-17. Retrieved from http://ojs.acadiau.ca/index.php/phenex/article/view.

Temple, V. A., Naylor, PJ. (2010). Exploring family childcare as a setting for the promotion of physical activity. PHENex, 2, 1 – 16.

Naylor, P.J., Bridgewater, L., Purcell, M., Ostry, A., VanderWekken, S. (2010). Publicly funded recreation facilities: obesogenic environments for children and families? Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2010, 7, 2208-2221; doi:10.3390/ijerph7052208.

Naylor P, Scott J, Drummond J, Bridgewater L, McKay HA, Panagiotopoulos C. (2010) Implementing a whole school physical activity and healthy eating model in rural and remote First Nations schools: a process evaluation of Action Schools! BC. Rural and Remote Health 10 (online), 2010: 1296. Available from: http://www.rrh.org.au.

Rhodes, R.E., Naylor, P.J., McKay, H.A. (2010). RCT of a Family Physical Activity Planning Intervention among Parents and their Children. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 33, 91-100.

Marc S. Mitchell, Catherine A. Gaul, Patti-Jean Naylor, Constadina Panagiotopoulos, (2010), Habitual Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity is Inversely Associated with Insulin Resistance in Canadian First Nations Youth, Pediatric Exercise Science.22; 254-265.

Nettlefold, Lindsay, McKay, Heather A, Warburton, Darren ER, McGuire, K Ashlee, Bredin, Shannon SD, Naylor, Patti Jean. The challenge of low physical activity during the school day: at recess, lunch and in physical education. Br J Sports Med Published Online First 9 March 2010 doi:10.1136/bjsm.2009.068072.

Temple, V., Naylor, P.J., Wharf-Higgins, J., Wolski, L. (2009). Physical activity of children in family child care. Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism. 34; 794-798,

Naylor, P.J. & McKay, H.A. (2008). Prevention in the First Place: Schools a setting for action on physical inactivity. Brit. J. Sports Med.BJSM Published Online First 29 Oct 2008;Br J Sports Med 2008;000:1–4. doi:10.1136/bjsm.2008.053447, Hard Copy: Br. J. Sports Med. 2009;43;10-13.

Day, M.E., Strange, K.S., McKay, H.A., Naylor, P.J. (2008). Action Schools! BC- Healthy Eating: Effects of a whole-school model to modifying eating behaviours of elementary school children. Canadian Journal of Public Health 99(4) 328-331.

Reed, K.E., Warburton, D., Macdonald, H.M. Naylor, P.J., McKay, H.A. (2008). Action Schools! BC: A school-based physical activity intervention designed to decrease cardiovascular disease risk factors in children. Preventive Medicine. 46, 525-531. Doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2008.02.020,

Naylor, P.J., Macdonald, H.M., Warburton, D.E.R., Reed, K.E. McKay, H.A.  (2008). An active school model to promote physical activity in elementary school children: Action Schools! BC, British Journal of Sports Medicine, BJSM Published Online First: 13 February, doi:10.1136/bjsm.2007.042036.

Wharf-Higgins, J., Naylor, P.J., Day, M. Seed Funding for Health Promotion: Sowing Sustainability or Skepticism? (2008) Community Development Journal, 43(2):210-221; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsl052.

Smith, NEI, Rhodes, RE, Naylor, P.J., McKay, HA. (2008). Exploring moderators of the relationship between physical activity behaviors and television viewing in elementary school children. American Journal of Health Promotion, March/April, V22(14), 231-236.

Timmons, B.W., Naylor, P.J., Pfeiffer, K.A. (2007). Physical activity for preschool children — how much and how? Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, Volume 32, Supplement S2E, Pages S122-S134.

Gibbons, S., Naylor, P.J. (2007). Whole School Obesity Prevention Models: Considerations for Secondary Schools, CAPHERD Journal, Vol 72 (4) 8-13.

Ahamed Y.A., Macdonald H.M., Reed K.E., Naylor P.J., Liu-Ambrose T., McKay, H.A. (2007). School based physical activity does not compromise children’s academic performance. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. 39(2), 371-376.

Berry, T.R., Plotnikoff, R.C., Raine, K., Anderson, D., Naylor, P.J. (2007) An Examination of Organizational Stages of Change for Health Promotion, Journal of Health Organization and Management, Vol. 21 No. 2, 2007, pp. 121-135.
Berry, T., Wharf-Higgins, J., Naylor, P.J. (2007). SARS Wars: Examining the Construction and Dissemination of Health Information in the News Media, Health Communication, Vol 21 (1), 35-44, DOI: 10.1080/10410230701283322; (AN 25882332).

Naylor, P.J., Zebedee, J.A., Macdonald, H.M., Reed, K.E., McKay, H.A. (2006) Lessons learned from Action Schools! BC - An 'active school' model to promote physical activity in elementary schools, Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 9, 413-424.

Wharf-Higgins, J., Young, L., Naylor, P.J., Cunningham, S. (2006) Out of the Mainstream: Single Mothers’ Life Experiences and perspectives on Heart Health. Health Promotion Practice, 7 (2), 412-432.

Day, M., Strange, K., Fenton, J., Kopelow, B. Naylor, P.J. McKay, H. (2006) Addressing student obesity using a ‘whole school model’: examples from Action Schools! BC. Principals On-Line.

Naylor, P.J., Macdonald, H.M., Reed, K.E., McKay, H.A. (2006) Action Schools! BC: A socio-ecological approach to modifying chronic disease risk factors in elementary school children. Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research Policy and Practice, 3(2), http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2006/apr/05_0090.htm.

Wharf-Higgins, J., Naylor, P.J., Berry, T., O’Connor, B., McLean, D. (2006). The Health Buck Stops Where? Thematic Framing of Health Discourse to Understand the Context for CVD Prevention. Journal of Health Communication, 11 (3), 343-358.

Berry, T., Naylor, P.J., Wharf-Higgins, J.(2005) Stages of change in adolescents: Validation and reasons for relapse. Journal of Adolescent Health, 37 (4), 42-45.

Berry, T., Naylor, P.J., Wharf-Higgins, J. (2005) Adolescent Physical Activity: Reasons for Relapse. Alberta Centre for Active Living Research Update, 12(3).

Ebbesen, L.S., Heath, S., Naylor, P.J., and Anderson, D. (2004). Issues in Measuring Health Promotion Capacity: A Multi-Province Perspective. International Journal of Health Promotion, 19(1), 85-94.

Rhodes, R.E., Berry, T., Naylor, P.J. and Wharf-Higgins, J. (2004). Three-Step Validation of Physical Activity Processes of Change in an Adolescent Sample. Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science. 8(1), 1-20.

Naylor, P.J., Wharf-Higgins, J. Blair, L.E., Green L., O’Connor, B. (2002) Evaluating the participatory process in a community-based heart health project. Social Science & Medicine. 55, pp. 1173-1187.

Naylor, P.J., Adams J.S., McNeil, D. (2002) Facilitating Changes in Perinatal Smoking: The Impact of a Stage-based Workshop for Care-providers in British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Public Health, Vol.93, No.4:285-90.

Naylor, P.J., Wharf-Higgins, J., O’Connor, B., Odegard, L., Blair, L. (2001).  Enhancing capacity for cardiovascular disease prevention: an overview of the British Columbia Heart Health Dissemination Research Project.  Promotion and Education. Supplement 1: 44-48.

Naylor, P.J., Simmonds, G., Riddoch, C., Velleman, G., Turton, P.  (1999). Comparison of stage matched and unmatched interventions to promote exercise behaviour in the primary care setting. Health Education Research, 14(5), pp. 653-666.

Burn, G.E., Naylor, P.J., Page, A. (1999). Assessment of stages of change for exercise within a worksite lifestyle screening program. American Journal of Health Promotion, 13(3); 143-145.

McKenna, J., Naylor, P.J., McDowell, N. (1998) Barriers to physical activity promotion for general practitioners and practice nurses.  British Journal of Sports Medicine, 32(3); 242-247.

McDowell, N., McKenna, J. Naylor, P.J. (1997).  Factors that influence practice nurses to promote physical activity. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 31(4); 308-313.

McKenna, J., McDowell, N., Naylor, P.J. and Turton, P. (1995).  What limits general practitioners’ promotion of exercise. Inprint: The Multiprofessional Health Journal, 3(2): 46-49.

McDowell, N., McKenna, J., Naylor, P.J. Turton, P. (1995). Physically active general practitioners treat more patients with exercise. Inprint: The Multiprofessional Health Journal, 3(2): 50-53.

Chapters in Books

Wharf-Higgins, J. Naylor, P.J., MacLeod, H.M., Sporer, T. “Knowledge Translation Processes in Developing a Community-based Evaluation Toolkit” in Elizabeth M. Banister, Bonnie J. Leadbeater, E. Anne Marshall (Ed). Knowledge Translation in Community-based Research and Social Policy Contexts. 2010 University of Toronto Press, Toronto.

Wharf-Higgins, J., Rickert, T., Naylor, P.J. “The Determinants of Physical Activity-  Why Are Some People Active and Others Not?” in Carrie P. Saylor (Ed). Weight Loss, Exercise and Health Research,, Nova Science Publishers, Inc, 2007, New York.