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University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal

2016

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The Effect Of A Culturally Tailored Web-Based Physical Activity Promotion Program On Asian American Midlife Women’S Depressive Symptoms, Wonshik Chee, Sangmi Kim, Xiaopeng Ji, Sooyoung Park, Eunice Chee, Hsiu-Min Tsai, Eun-Ok Im Dec 2016

The Effect Of A Culturally Tailored Web-Based Physical Activity Promotion Program On Asian American Midlife Women’S Depressive Symptoms, Wonshik Chee, Sangmi Kim, Xiaopeng Ji, Sooyoung Park, Eunice Chee, Hsiu-Min Tsai, Eun-Ok Im

Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal

The benefits of physical activities on depressive symptoms have increasingly been reported in the literature, but the effect through which a Web-based physical activity promotion program alleviates depressive symptoms is not clearly known, especially among ethnic minority midlife women. The purpose of this pilot randomized control study is to examine the preliminary efficacy of the Web-based physical activity promotion program in enhancing the depressive symptoms of Asian American midlife women through increasing physical activity. This study adopted a randomized repeated measures pretest/posttest control group design. This study consisted of two groups of research participants: 18 in an intervention group and …