Native American Students’ Activity Preferences and Self-Reported Activity

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dierdra Bycura ◽  
Pamela Hodges Kulinna ◽  
Janice Jirsak ◽  
Rachelle Jones
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Native American ◽  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Internal Consistency Reliability ◽  
Physical Activities ◽  
Sedentary Behaviors ◽  
Item Recall ◽  
Native American Students ◽  
American Students ◽  
Activity Preferences

The purpose of this study was to explore Native American students’ participation patterns and self-reported physical activities. Participants (N = 376) completed the previously validated Physical Activity Questionnaire (PAQ) a four part 83-item recall questionnaire from the NIH Pathways Study. Data analyses included internal consistency reliability, descriptive statistics and Kappa tests investigating stability over reporting time periods. Similar to urban students’ reports, these Native American students reported frequent participation in only a few types of physical activities along with common reports of sedentary behaviors. While this study adds to our knowledge of Native American students’ physical activity preferences and activity patterns, more information is needed to aid development of specific, culturally relevant physical activity programming.

Using Mobile Health Intervention to Explore the Daily Physical Activity Patterns among University Students: Observational Study (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shao-Wei Yeh ◽  
Chun-Yan Yuan ◽  
Yu-Feng Wu ◽  
Rui Shen
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Physical Exercise ◽  
University Students ◽  
Mobile Health ◽  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Exercise Duration ◽  
School Intervention ◽  
Sedentary Behaviors ◽  
Exercise Participation ◽  
Daily Exercise

BACKGROUND Promoting physical activity for adolescence is a global challenge in public health. Physical inactivity and sedentary behaviors have been regarded to cause harmful chronic diseases to adolescent lifespan. However, high engagement in mobile technology for students may provide opportunities to help change adolescent unhealthy behaviors. Therefore, school sectors may play an important key role, such as implementing mobile health (mHealth) intervention to change students’ unhealthy behaviors and promote regular physical exercise behaviors, especially during the transition from adolescence to young adult. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to explore university students’ daily exercise patterns upon intervention of school-based mHealth project. METHODS Students’ physical exercise participation was recorded with students’ mobile application. With 4152 university freshmen (1476 males, 2676 females) and 335898 of their exercise records were analyzed (mean frequency of 38.2 ±16.10 in males, 45.1±10.81 in females) during the semester. RESULTS Under the school intervention project, students that exercised on Friday and Saturday was lower than that on other days, which indicated that the participation in exercise were more active on weekdays than on weekends. Among the participants who completed the requirement set by the school intervention project, both males and females used weekends to do exercise. On the other hand, overweight male university students participated in physical activity more than the requirement of the school intervention project and their exercise duration were found to be significantly higher than other participants. CONCLUSIONS Understanding a week of daily exercise patterns among youth upon the school mHealth Apps intervention can benefit in developing efficient and flexible projects to promote physical health and improve regular exercise participation in youth.

scholarly journals Physical Activity and Sedentary Activity Patterns Among Children and Adolescents: A Latent Class Analysis Approach

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 457-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie D. Patnode ◽  
Leslie A. Lytle ◽  
Darin J. Erickson ◽  
John R. Sirard ◽  
Daheia J. Barr-Anderson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Latent Class Analysis ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Moderate Activity ◽  
Class Analysis ◽  
Sedentary Behaviors ◽  
Sedentary Activity

Background:While much is known about the overall levels of physical activity and sedentary activity among youth, few studies have attempted to define clusters of such behaviors. The purpose of this study was to identify and describe unique classes of youth based on their participation in a variety of physical activity and sedentary behaviors.Methods:Latent class analysis was used to characterize segments of youth based on patterns of self-reported and accelerometer-measured participation in 12 behaviors. Children and adolescents (N = 720) from 6th-11th grade were included in the analysis. Differences in class membership were examined using multinomial logistic regression.Results:Three distinct classes emerged for boys and girls. Among boys, the 3 classes were characterized as “Active” (42.1%), “Sedentary” (24.9%), and “Low Media/Moderate Activity” (33.0%). For girls, classes were “Active” (18.7%), “Sedentary” (47.6%), and “Low Media/Functional Activity” (33.7%). Significant differences were found between the classes for a number of demographic indicators including the proportion in each class who were classified as overweight or obese.Conclusions:The behavioral profiles of the classes identified in this study can be used to suggest possible audience segments for intervention and to tailor strategies appropriately.

scholarly journals Evaluation of a health sciences internship for Latino and Native American library students

2017 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alla Keselman, PhD, MA ◽  
Sanjana Quasem, BS ◽  
Janice E. Kelly, MLS ◽  
Gale A. Dutcher, MS, MLS, AHIP
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Graduate Level ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Native American Students ◽  
American Library ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
American Students

Purpose: This paper presents a qualitative evaluation of a graduate-level internship for Latino and Native American library science students or students who are interested in serving those populations.Methods: The authors analyzed semi-structured interviews with thirteen internship program graduates or participants.Results: The analysis suggests that the program increased participants’ interest in health sciences librarianship and led to improved career opportunities, both in health sciences libraries and other libraries with health information programming. It also highlights specific factors that are likely to contribute to the strength of career pipeline programs aiming to bring Latino and Native American students and students who are interested in serving those communities into health librarianship.Conclusions: Exposing graduate-level interns to a broad range of health sciences librarianship tasks, including outreach to Latino and Native American communities and formal mentorship, is likely to maximize interns’ interests in both health sciences librarianship and service to these communities.

Boarding School Poetry, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and the Demands of Americanization Poetics and Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

2018 ◽  
pp. 99-143
Author(s):  
Cristina Stanciu
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Native American ◽  
Original Poetry ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Native American Students ◽  
American Students ◽  
Carlisle Indian Industrial School ◽  
Industrial School

This chapter focuses on the under-examined corpus of Carlisle poetry, viewing it as a vital archive for theorizing the role of the American Indian intellectual tradition in negotiating Americanization discourses at the turn of the twentieth century. Materials published in newspapers and magazines at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania (1879–1918) include “Carlisle poetry,” which encompasses original poetry by Native American students, reprints of poems by Indian authors, poems by school personnel, and poems by well-known American authors. This poetry, along with the letters and articles published in Carlisle newspapers and magazines, is complicit with the ideological underpinnings of the institution’s ambitious goals of “making” Indian students into Americans, even as elements of this literature critique the Americanization that Carlisle boarding school demanded of its students.

What Is It Like to Be a Minority Student at a Predominantly White Institution?

2021 ◽  
pp. 191-209
Author(s):  
Lucila T. Rudge
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Campus Climate ◽  
Minority Student ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Predominantly White Institution ◽  
Native American Students ◽  
American Students ◽  
White Institution

This study examines the differences in experiences and perceptions of campus climate of 38 minority students enrolled in a predominantly white institution (PWI). African American students, Native American students, gender and sexually diverse students, students with disabilities, Latinx students, and international students participated in the study. About half of the participants reported negative experiences with racism and discrimination on campus whereas the other half reported the opposite. Attribution to discrimination theory informed the theoretical framework of this study and the data analysis. Policy recommendations to improve the climate of diversity on university campus are provided.

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