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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Medias påverkan på individers kostvanor och fysiska aktivitet : en kvalitativ studie om livsstilsbudskap och hälsa

Persson, Katarina January 2011 (has links)
I dagens samhälle sprids budskap om hälsa och en hälsosam livsstil genom en mängd olika informationskanaler, där kanske den största är media. Då mediavärlden kan ses som en stark trendsättare och då de flesta människor på ett eller annat sätt kommer i kontakt med media och dess budskap, var syftet med denna studie att undersöka hur individen upplever att medias budskap om hälsa påverkar livsstilen gällande kostvanor och fysisk aktivitet. Vilka mediabudskap rörande kost och fysisk aktivitet nås individen av? Hur stämmer dessa överens med officiella rekommendationer och hur upplever individen att livsstilsval påverkas av dessa budskap? Studiedesignen var empirisk, kvalitativ av deskriptiv karaktär. Sammanlagt har nitton semistrukturerade intervjuer genomförts, med tre män och sexton kvinnor. Åldersfördelningen varierade mellan arton och femtiosju år. Det insamlade intervjumaterialet analyserades genom en innehållsanalys som visade att mediabudskap påverkade informanterna olika beroende på ålder, intresse och livssituation samt yrke. Bland de yngre informanterna relaterades kost och fysisk aktivitet i hög grad till utseendet. Medias budskap kunde även upplevas som en press, där en smal kroppsbyggnad bland de yngre kvinnorna var förknippad med bättre självförtroende och psykiskt välbefinnande. Vad gällde kosthållning kunde stressen i vardagen vara en avgörande faktor, men där även media och samhället hade en avgörande roll och var viktiga trendsättare. Bland de äldre informanterna fick riskbudskap om livsmedel, livsmedels ursprung och innehåll större utrymme, och manade till eftertanke i högre utsträckning än andra mediabudskap. Kroppens åldrande och vikten av att hålla igång för att slippa värk var i högre grad motiverande för träning och fysisk aktivitet än medias budskap om ett vackrare utseende. Majoriteten av informanternas mål med hälsa och livsstil var att må bra, träna mer och ta hand om sig själva. Flertalet hävdade också att mediabudskap inte helt gick att lita på. Bland de yngre informanterna fanns en hög grad av medvetenhet kring hur media förvränger och omvandlar budskap om kroppsideal och utseende, varpå påverkan upplevdes ske medvetet, trots att full förståelse fanns för att budskapen varken var sanningsenliga eller verklighetstrogna. / In today's society messages about health and healthy lifestyles are spread through a variety of information channels, where perhaps the biggest is the media. Since the media world can be seen as a strong trend setter, the purpose of this study was to investigate how the individual experiences that media`s messages about health affect the lifestyle regarding diet and physical activity. What types of media messages reach the individual? Do the individuals perceive these to be consistent with official recommendations and how do individuals experience that lifestyle choices are affected by these messages? The study design was empirical, qualitative and of a descriptive character. A total of nineteen semi-structured interviews have been conducted, with three men and sixteen women. The gathered data was analyzed through a content analysis. The main results showed that media messages affect informants differently depending on age, interest, lifestyle and profession. Among the younger informants, diet and physical activity were more related to appearance than among the older informants and media impact was experienced to occur consciously. Among the older informants risk messages were given more consideration and old age was considered a motivation to increase exercise and physical activity.
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#Socialsupport for Diet and Physical Activity via Web 2.0: A Qualitative Study of College Women

Kies, Bethany Kies 01 May 2016 (has links)
Like other adults in the U.S., college students, have high rates of obesity and overweight, and they have a pattern of poor diet and physical inactivity. Emerging adulthood is a key developmental period for building life-long habits and behaviors, and health theory suggests that one’s social environment and amount of social support affects health behaviors, particularly among women. With the technological advances of Web 2.0, or social media, the opportunity for providing social support for health behaviors through the online social environment now exists; social media is a game changer for both research and practice related to understanding the social environment. The purpose of this descriptive qualitative study was to describe the ways in which social networking sites (SNS) provide college females with social support for their diet and/or physical activity goals. The social cognitive theory and previous research on the construct of social support, provided a conceptual framework for this study. With a purposive sample of 12 college females, data from three sources were collected over the course of four weeks. Journal responses and daily observations of each participant’s social networking site activity via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest were collected the first three weeks, and interviews were conducted the fourth week. Qualitative analysis was conducted at both the participant and group level, and results inform how the women engage with the topics of diet and physical activity during their daily SNS usage the ways in which their SNS experience provides them with support for diet and/or physical activity goals. Of the five functional measures of social support, participants most often indicated receiving emotional support, informational support and validation support from SNS usage. The findings of this study highlight current social media practices in college females, which can better inform the planning and implementation of health behavior programs that include an online, social component. Furthermore, the results serve to highlight examples of social support naturally occurring in the online environment, thereby adding to the body of literature about ways in which social support influence health outcomes.
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Direct Support Professionals and Adults with Developmental Disabilities: A Study of the Role Direct Support Professionals have in the Health Behaviors of their Clients with Developmental Disabilities

Leser, Kendall Anne 12 September 2016 (has links)
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