title: Predictors of leisure-time physical activity among African American women.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the extent to which social support and self-efficacy were related to the duration of leisure-time physical activity in a sample of African American women.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two hundred forty African American women completed a 45-item questionnaire at community health centers and churches.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Mean weekly physical activity was found to be 88 minutes. Self-efficacy (P < or = 0.01) and frequency of social support from friends (P < or = 0.01) were found to be significant predictors for physical activity and accounted for 23.7% of the variance.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Physical activity interventions for Black women must build on the constructs of self-efficacy and friends' social support.
authors: Health Promotion and Education, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0002, USA. manoj.sharma@uc.edu
authors: Manoj
authors: M
authors: Sharma
authors: Leslie
authors: L
authors: Sargent
authors: Richard
authors: R
authors: Stacy
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D000368:Aged; D015444:Exercise; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007899:Leisure Activities; D008875:Middle Aged; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012944:Social Support; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires