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Barriers, Motivations, and Preferences for Physical Activity Among Female African American Older Adults.
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- Being active in Ghana: facilitators, barriers and preferences for being physically active in community settings among Ghanaian adults.BMJ public health · 2026Article
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- Physical activity and functional social support in community-dwelling older adults: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2024Article
- A Content Analysis of African Americans' Experience of Engaging inJournal of integrative and complementary medicine · 2024Article
- Intervening to reduce sedentary behavior among African American elders: the "Stand Up and Move More" intervention.Health promotion perspectives · 2024Article
- Barriers and Facilitators to Improving Cardiovascular Health in Churches with Predominantly Black Congregations.Ethnicity & disease · 2023Article
- Benefits and barriers to physical activity among African women: A systematic review.Sports medicine and health science · 2023Review
- Changes in physical activity and risk of ischemic stroke: The ARIC study.International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society · 2023Article
- Moving beyond Definitive Therapy: Increasing Physical Activity in Survivors of Cancers of the Head and Neck.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2022Review
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Abstract
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, less than 11% of adults more than the age of 65 meet the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. Among minority populations, only 5% of non-Hispanic Black older adults met the guidelines. Given our limited understanding of psychosocial and environmental factors that affect physical activity participation in these groups, the purpose of our focus groups was to investigate barriers, motivators, and preferences of physical activity for community-dwelling African American older adults. Three focus groups were conducted with female African American older adults (
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