Physical activity determinants of military health care recipients

From: Military Medicine | Date: March 1, 2003| Author: Nelson, Mary S | Copyright information

This study describes physical activity determinants (motivation, self-efficacy, benefits/barriers, and stage of change) of 71 healthy, military-affiliated volunteers, 28 men and 43 women (mean age, 31 +/- 7 years) from a military primary care setting. The physical activity determinants were measured with investigator-administered questionnaires at three time points over 8 months. The Kruskal-Wallis analysis of variance indicated that there were significant differences (p < 0.0001) among fa...

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