Physical Activity Characteristics of Potential Participants in Nutrition and Fitness Programs Based on Stages of Change, Self-Efficacy, and Decisional Balance  

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Cox, Ruby H. ; Stimpson, Tara S. ; Poole, Kathleen P. ; Lambur, Michael T.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal vol. 31 no. 4 (Jun. 2003), page 361-376.
Topik: physical activity; stages of change; self-efficacy; decisional balance; mail questionnaire
Fulltext: 361fcs314.pdf (106.72KB)

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The objective of this study was to characterize potential participants of nutrition/fitness programs regarding demographics, stages of change, self-efficacy, and decisional balance for physical activity. Across-sectional, mailed questionnaire was used. Participants included 545 adults randomly selected from Virginia Cooperative Extension mailing lists, with 213 questionnaires returned (response rate = 39%). Respondents were grouped by stages of change for physical activity and compared on demographics, self-efficacy, and decisional balance using frequencies, correlations, t tests,ANOVA, and Tukey’s post hoc test. Reported physical activity rate was higher than in other studies. Stage of change was positively associated with education, self-efficacy, and decisional balance. Physical activity characteristics were positively associated with educational level. Authors concluded that a mailed questionnaire is a feasible means of collecting pre-intervention, physical activity data for designing educational programs.

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