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Correlates of physical activity in urban Midwestern Latinas

Authors
 JoEllen Wilbur  ;  Peggy J Chandler  ;  Hoenkyeong Lee  ;  Barbara Dancy 
Citation
 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, Vol.25(3 suppl. 1) : 69-76, 2003 
Journal Title
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
ISSN
 0749-3797 
Issue Date
2003
MeSH
Adult ; Emigration and Immigration ; Exercise* ; Female ; Hispanic Americans* ; Humans ; Mexico/ethnology ; Middle Aged ; MidwesternUnited States/epidemiology ; Social Environment ; Socioeconomic Factors ; UrbanPopulation* ; Women's Health*
Keywords
14499812
Abstract
BACKGROUND:
Latinas (Latino women) are at higher risk than non-Latina white women of cardiovascular disease and stroke, primarily because of higher rates of obesity and type-2 diabetes mellitus. Increases in physical activity help control these cardiovascular risk factors, but a higher percentage of Latinas than white women are inactive. The study goals were to identify personal, social environmental, and physical environmental correlates of physical activity of urban-dwelling, Midwestern Latinas and to obtain their recommendations for increasing exercise in their communities.
METHODS:
A face-to-face interview (Women and Physical Activity Survey) that covered personal, social environmental, and physical environmental correlates of physical activity was performed with 300 volunteer Latinas (242 in Spanish, 58 in English), aged 20 to 50 years, living in Chicago. Physical activity was measured with questions on lifestyle and planned leisure activity (exercise) from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey.
RESULTS:
The sample consisted of urban-dwelling Latinas who were primarily from Mexico and who spoke predominantly Spanish. The breakdown was as follows: 36% met current recommendations for moderate or vigorous physical activity, 52.3% were insufficiently active, and 11.7% were inactive. Physical activity was higher among younger women, married women, and women with the following characteristics: had some confidence about becoming more active, saw people exercising in the neighborhood, attended religious services, or lived in areas with heavy traffic.
CONCLUSIONS:
Interventions need to focus on encouraging Latinas, especially those who are older, to reach the level of physical activity recommended to benefit health. The church may be a suitable community setting for initiating programs that provide women with the knowledge, skills, and motivation to become more active so that they can bring back to the larger Latina community.
Full Text
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749379703001673
Appears in Collections:
3. College of Nursing (간호대학) > Dept. of Nursing (간호학과) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Lee, Hyeonkyeong(이현경) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9558-7737
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/113218
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