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  • About
  • 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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A retrospective study the development of resilience among Black American women aged 85 years and older residing in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area /

Johnson, Cheri Carter. January 2005 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2005. / Principal faculty advisor: Bahira Sherif Trask, Dept. of Individual & Family Studies. Includes bibliographical references.
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The effects of neighborhood environments on the level of physical activity among older african american women in Texas

Shin, Woo Hwa 15 May 2009 (has links)
The older African American women living Texas fall into one of the most inactive population segments. Recently, the importance of socio-ecological models on human health behavior and more complex associations between variables have been discussed. Therefore, this cross-sectional study focuses on investigating the trends in physical activity among older African American women, exploring the effects of actual environmental variables that might encourage or discourage their physical activity, and discovering any plausible mediating effects between environmental factors and older African American women’s physical activity. The study sample is composed of African American women aged 55 to 84 who reside in independent housing in Bryan, Texas. A total of 282 older African American women’s addresses were systematically selected and a self-administrated survey questionnaire documenting the level of physical activity, psychological well-being, sense of community, perception of safety, physical health status, and background information was collected for each of the women. The environmental influences of natural and built environments were defined using two boundaries: 1) nearby home level (0.5 mile street distance), and 2) neighborhood level (1 mile street distance) from the participant’s house. The natural and built environments were measured using a Geographic Information System (GIS) and aerial photographs. Results showed that a) walking was the most prevalent type of physical activity and streets were the most popular places for older African American women; b) at the nearby home level, greenery and land use mixture were positively associated with older African American women’s physical activity while street pattern and access to commercial areas influenced their physical activity at the neighborhood level; and c) perceptions of crime-related neighborhood problems had significant mediating effects decreasing older African American women’s physical activity. The findings revealed that the environmental variables had a distance effects on older women’s physical activity. In addition, on a policy level, neighborhood problems should be dealt with using careful insight in order to encourage physical activity.
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The construction of aging and health in older African American women /

Reisz, Ilana. Linder, Stephen H. January 2006 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 197-218).
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An exploration of physical activity in the lives of older, minority women diagnosed or at risk for diabetes /

Atwood, Robin Dochen, January 1999 (has links)
Thesis (D. Ed.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 164-182). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

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