<p>ABSTRACT
An Intervention to Change Attitudes and Physical Activities of Adult Foster Care Home Workers in Hawaii
by Edna J. Smith
Insufficient information is available in the medical literature to describe the physical activity
habits of adult foster care home workers. Healthcare workers are notorious for lack of self-care.
Being a health care worker is a mentally and physically demanding job. It stands to
reason that physically fit health care workers are less likely to suffer injury or become ill.
This study questions whether attitudes towards physical activity outside the workplace
can be influenced the recommended downloading of a smartphone application (smart-phone
app). The intervention of the smart phone application provides a free standardized way to
manage physical activity.
Pre- and post-intervention questionnaires survey attitudes and thoughts towards physical
activity. Each participant was provided access to these questionnaires prior to downloading the
smart phone application. Approximately six weeks after the initial questionnaires were returned
from the study participants, the questionnaires were given again.
The data analysis for this study reveals the responses of the 21 study participants to preand
post-questionnaires. Interestingly, 19 of the 21 voluntary study participant identified as
being of Filipino ethnicity. Filipinos are the second largest ethnic group in Hawaii (Inouye,
Matsuura, Li, Castro, & Leake, 2014), where the study took place.
Key Words: adult foster care homes, physical activity, exercise, Filipino healthcare workers
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PROQUEST/oai:pqdtoai.proquest.com:10277652 |
| Date | 11 May 2017 |
| Creators | Smith, Edna J. |
| Publisher | Brandman University |
| Source Sets | ProQuest.com |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis |
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