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Using community insight to understand physical activity adoption in overweight and obese African American and Hispanic women: a qualitative study.
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- Integrating and adapting three evidence-based interventions to enhance physical activity and reduce psychosocial distress among rural breast cancer survivors: the Mind Your BEAT study.Translational behavioral medicine · 2025Article
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- Utilizing Social Determinants of Health to Elicit Perceived Control Beliefs About Physical Activity Among African Americans.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2020Article
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- Barriers to physical activity as moderators of intervention effects.Preventive medicine reports · 2017Article
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- Sexually explicit racialised media targeting men who have sex with men online: a content analysis of high-risk behaviour depicted in online advertisements.Culture, health & sexuality · 2015Article
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- Individual, social and environmental correlates of physical activity in overweight and obese African American and Hispanic women: A structural equation model analysis.Preventive medicine reportsArticle
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Abstract
Ecologic models suggest that multiple levels of influencing factors are important for determining physical activity participation and include individual, social, and environmental factors. The purpose of this qualitative study was to use an ecologic framework to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying behavioral mechanisms that influence physical activity adoption among ethnic minority women. Eighteen African American and Hispanic women completed a 1-hour in-depth interview. Verbatim interview transcripts were analyzed for emergent themes using a constant comparison approach. Women were middle-aged (age M = 43.9 ± 7.3 years), obese (body mass index M = 35.0 ± 8.9 kg/m(2)), and of high socioeconomic status (88.9% completed some college or more, 41.2% reported income >$82,600/year). Participants discussed individual factors, including the need for confidence, motivation and time, and emphasized the importance of environmental factors, including their physical neighborhood environments and safety of and accessibility to physical activity resources. Women talked about caretaking for others and social support and how these influenced physical activity behavior. The findings from this study highlight the multilevel, interactive complexities that influence physical activity, emphasizing the need for a more sophisticated, ecologic approach for increasing physical activity adoption and maintenance among ethnic minority women. Community insight gleaned from this study may be used to better understand determinants of physical activity and develop multilevel solutions and programs guided by an ecologic framework to increase physical activity in ethnic minority women.
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