Participants & Setting
Study Design
Measurement
Results
100
North Carolina
What is the state where the study was done?
100
to examine the associations between acculturation, intrapersonal and contextual cultural factors, and physical activity among participants.
What is the goal/purpose of the study?
100
The module on moderate and vigorous physical activity from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey (BRFSS)
What is the method of PA assessment?
100
The most active group based on number of years in the USA (table 2)
What is 3 or more years in the USA?
200
a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race
What is Hispanic or Latino?
200
Cross sectional
What is the study design?
200
Meeting recommendations, insufficiently active and inactive
What is the categories of PA amount/volume?
200
The overall healthiest group based on age of arrival in the USA (table 2)
What is less than 25 years of age?
300
First generation
What is the generation of the participants?
300
Structured interview
What is the data collection method?
300
4 questions on the language the women spoke, read or thought in
What is measure of acculturation?
300
Group that does the most walking/heavy labor based on English language acculturation (table 3)
What is >6 (greater acculturation)?
400
laundry mats, shopping malls, festivals, markets, tiendas (Latino markets), grocery stores, bus stops, health centers, restaurants, apartment complexes, churches, English as a Second Language classes, a Hispanic center, and at a work site.
What is places where they recruited and/or interviewed the women?
400
30 minutes
What is average length of time the interview took?
400
lack of English language skills as a barrier to being physically active and fatalistic beliefs
What is interpersonal factors measured?
400
37.4%
What is the percentage of the women meeting current recommendations?
500
Mexico
What is country of birth for the majority of the women (59%)?
500
$10
What is the incentive the women received for completing the interview?
500
age, education, general health, marital status, and number of children in the home
What is sociodemographic measures?
500
(Among Mexican born women) the most active group based on age of arrival in the USA (table 3)
What is less than 25 years of age?