The purpose of this study was to investigate time commitment, self-efficacy and social environment as it relates to physical activity in a selected sample of hypertensive African Americans. In addition, this study focused on identifying additional research areas in regards to hypertensive African Americans. This study utilized a quantitative method for data collection. The survey instrument utilized contained the following subtopics: (1) demographics;(2)hypertension risk factors;(3) prevention and treatment;(4)hypertension knowledge, and (5)physical activity participation.
Data collected did not support the hypotheses or information contained in the review of literature. It was revealed from data collection that 69% of the respondents (n=90) disagreed with the survey statement that "exercise takes too much of my time (time commitment)." Fifty-two percent of the respondents (n=68) either disagreed or strongly disagreed with the statement "exercise tires me (self-efficacy belief)." Forty-three percent of the respondents (n=56) disagreed with the statement "my spouse (or significant other) does not encourage exercise."
There is a need for future investigation to examine how additional barriers to physical effect activity African Americans individually, and is there a culmination of specific barriers to physical activity that work in conjunction to inhibit African Americans to engage in physical activity. / Ph. D.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/26452 |
| Date | 24 April 2006 |
| Creators | Stith, Dettrick Lamont |
| Contributors | Educational Cirriculum and Instruction (Health Promotion), Redican, Kerry J., Brown, Michael D., Jones, Russell T., Burton, John K., Sanders, Reliford T. Jr. |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Relation | DLStithDissertation2006.pdf |
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