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DANCE AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN
Author Info
Murrock, Carolyn J.
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1159901402
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Year and Degree
2007, Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, Nursing.
Abstract
Culturally-specific nursing interventions are underutilized to improve health outcomes in minority populations. This 2-group longitudinal study examined the effects of a culturally-specific dance intervention on functional capacity and lifestyle physical activity in sedentary African American women, ages 40 years and older. The culturally-specific dance intervention was choreographed by and for African American women. Two African American churches were randomly assigned to treatment or comparison group protocols and a sample of 126 participants, 66 in the treatment group and 60 in the comparison group, were recruited. Variables measured were lifestyle physical activity, functional capacity, efficacy expectations, outcome expectations, social support, body fat, age, co-morbidity, and socioeconomic status. The participants were measured at baseline, 8 weeks, and 18 weeks. The results of the study determined that a culturally-specific dance intervention increased functional capacity in distance walked from baseline to 8 weeks and remained at 18 weeks when controlling for baseline covariates in those who received the intervention compared to those who did not. Also, outcome expectations and social support from friends mediated the effects between dance and lifestyle physical activity in the experimental group compared to the comparison group. This study yielded information about the meaning each African American woman attributed to culturally-specific dance, self-efficacy, and social support within the context of their lives.
Committee
Faye Gary (Advisor)
Pages
181 p.
Subject Headings
Health Sciences, Nursing
Keywords
Dance
;
Physical Activity
;
African American Women
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Murrock, C. J. (2007).
DANCE AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN
[Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1159901402
APA Style (7th edition)
Murrock, Carolyn.
DANCE AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN.
2007. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1159901402.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Murrock, Carolyn. "DANCE AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1159901402
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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