Psychosocial Mediators of a Walking Intervention Among African American Women

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 40-46

  Dunn, Mary Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

African American women; focus groups; physical activity; qualitative data analysis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KINESIOTHERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; OBESITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SAFETY; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TIME MANAGEMENT; WALKING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; EXERCISE THERAPY; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GOALS; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; OBESITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SAFETY; SELF CARE; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TIME MANAGEMENT; WALKING; WOMEN;

EID: 37249056460     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659607309138     Document Type: Article

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