Characteristics of insufficiently active hypertensive black women who volunteer to be in a physical activity promotion intervention: An application of social cognitive theory and the transtheoretical model

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 604-610

  Martin, Michelle Y ^a   Prayor Patterson, Heather ^a   Kratt, Polly ^a   Kim, Young ^a   Person, Sharina ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypertensive black women; Physical activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RISK MANAGEMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 36348973011     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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