title: Adolescent girls' experiences in the Go Girls! group-based lifestyle mentoring program.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the experience of being in the Go Girls! program from the perspective of its participants.
  
  
  METHODS
  Drawing from a social constructivist approach, this study consisted of semi-structured interviews conducted with 12 purposively sampled Go Girls! participants.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results provided evidence for the emergence of 2 higher-order themes that subsume 7 lower-order themes and 27 categories that relate to the general components of the program and program outcomes associated with participating in the program.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Participants in the Go Girls! program reported enjoying the program, experiencing changes in important health-enhancing cognitions and behaviors and developing meaningful relationships with program mentors and other program participants.
authors.affiliation: School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. justine.dowd@ubc.ca.
authors.forename: A Justine
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Dowd
authors.affiliation: Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
authors.forename: Samantha M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Harden
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
authors.forename: Mark R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Beauchamp
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D015438:Health Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008611:Mentors; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012944:Social Support; D055815:Young Adult