title: Cultural beliefs and physical activity among African-American adolescents.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the association of cultural beliefs with physical activity (PA) among African-American adolescents.
  
  
  METHODS
  For a list of 42 leisure-time physical activities, adolescents (N = 116) indicated whether they believed the activity was 'Mostly a Black Thing', 'Equally a Black and White Thing', or 'Mostly a White Thing'. Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity was assessed using accelerometers.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Participants scoring in the highest quartile of Mostly Black score engaged in more PA and were less likely to be overweight or obese compared to those in lower quartiles. However, these findings were not statistically significant.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Further research to validate the association of cultural beliefs with PA is needed to inform health-enhancing PA interventions for this population.
authors.affiliation: Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, Brown Alpert Medical School, Providence, RI, USA. Herpreet_Thind@brown.edu.
authors.forename: Herpreet
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Thind
authors.affiliation: Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
authors.forename: Tashauna U
authors.initials: TU
authors.lastname: Goldsby
authors.affiliation: Institute for Community Health Promotion, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
authors.forename: Akilah
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dulin-Keita
authors.affiliation: Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
authors.forename: Monica L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Baskin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D001741:Black or African American / Q000208:ethnology*; D002648:Child; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity