Results
The phase is characterized by the early decision-making and initiation behaviors of the women.
What is the Initiation phase?
The type of interview conducted in this study.
What is face-to-face?
The type of theory that was selected because of the lack of knowledge regarding the specific factors and factor relationships.
What is grounded theory?
Two main areas of limitation in this study.
What are the chosen methodology and the study population?
These were created for each new idea and theme found.
What are codes?
In this phase, women begin to see some of the enhanced results of their efforts and the results that took longer to realize.
What is the Integration Phase?
The number of focus groups of study participants.
What is two?
Institutional Review Board that approved this study.
Who is The Ohio State University?
The bias that women who desired to participate were somehow different than those who elected not to participate.
What is selection bias?
Similar ideas or themes are grouped together by those related in nature or meaning.
What are Concepts?
The cycle that indicates once an appropriate and successful physical activity regimen was planned and executed, enhanced benefits were noticed and these benefits provided motivation to continue, creating a circular cycle.
What is the Benefits-Motivation-Execution cycle?
The tool that the interviews and focus groups were collected with.
What is a tape recorder?
The age of females in the inclusion criteria.
What are African American females 25 to 45?
The elements of the study were designed to ensure the conclusions of the researcher were indeed grounded in the data.
What are peer debriefing and member checking?
The most relevant concepts from this study were integrated into this framework.
What is theoretical?
This loop accommodates the situation revealed in all of the women's lives where physical activity had to be temporarily ceased for various reasons.
What is Cessation Loop?
The qualitative data analysis program that all transcribed interviews and field notes were entered into for analysis.
What is Atlas.TI?
The place where the participants were recruited.
What are sorority alumni associations?
This material was reviewed by the principal investigator to check for appropriate interview style and rich data quality.
What are transcripts?
The type of analysis was used for all of the interviews to ensure that no important ideas or constructs were overlooked.
What is Microanalysis?
Women characterized this phase by using words such as "breakthrough" or "light clicking on."
What is the Transition Phase?
The number of women screened for the study and the number of women who were eligible.
What are 30 and 17?
Type of sampling used in the study.
What is Theoretical sampling?
The grounded theory requires data collection in an environment constructed by these two groups.
Who are the researcher and the participant?
The type of comparisons the concepts were developed through in this study.
What is constant?