Hair As a Barrier to Physical Activity among African American Women: A Qualitative Exploration.
Hair As a Barrier to Physical Activity among African American Women: A Qualitative Exploration.
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头发是非裔美国妇女体育锻炼的障碍：一种定性探索。
DOI：
10.3389/fpubh.2017.00367
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
5.2
通讯作者：
Keller C
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作者：
Joseph RP;Coe K;Ainsworth BE;Hooker SP;Mathis L;Keller C
非裔美国女性在参与体育活动方面面临独特的社会文化障碍。这些障碍可能导致她们体育活动水平低以及心血管代谢疾病负担重。近期研究中，非裔美国女性所报告的一个特殊障碍是，体育活动可能对许多非裔美国女性的发型和头发护理产生不良影响。然而，导致这一障碍的潜在机制尚未完全阐明。本研究的目的是探究发型护理作为非裔美国女性体育活动的一个障碍，并确定在设计具有文化相关性的体育活动干预措施时克服这一障碍的有效策略。
采用了定性研究设计。数据来自焦点小组，这些小组由23名久坐且肥胖的非裔美国女性组成（中位年龄 = 38.1岁，中位体重指数 = 39.8千克/平方米）。采用内容分析法对这些焦点小组数据进行分析。
从参与者的定性叙述中出现了三个关键主题：（1）汗水对头发和发型护理的影响；（2）形象和社会比较；（3）克服体育活动中与头发相关障碍的解决方案。对于汗水和发型护理的影响，参与者描述了在进行体育活动时出汗如何对她们的许多发型产生负面影响。参与者还进一步讨论了与体育活动相关的发型护理所带来的时间和金钱负担如何进一步加剧了这一问题。关于形象和社会比较这一主题的研究结果侧重于非裔美国女性的发型如何是其形象的重要组成部分，以及非非裔美国人对非裔美国女性的发型和护理做法所进行的社会比较。对于发型护理障碍的解决方案，参与者描述了各种可能有助于缓解与体育活动相关的护理问题的潜在造型技术，包括辫子、脏辫和自然发型。然而，没有一种造型技术得到所有研究参与者的一致认可。
研究结果凸显了头发在非裔美国社区中的重要性，并为克服体育活动的这一社会文化障碍的适当干预设计策略提供了进一步的见解。未来需要进行研究以证实并进一步扩展我们的研究结果。
African American (AA) women face unique sociocultural barriers to physical activity (PA) engagement. Such barriers may contribute to their low PA levels and high cardiometabolic disease burden. One particular barrier reported among AA women in recent research is that being physically active can have an undesirable effect on the hairstyles and hair maintenance of many AA women. However, the underlying mechanisms contributing to this barrier have not been fully elucidated. The purpose of this study is to explore hairstyle maintenance as a barrier to PA among AA women and to identify effective strategies to overcome this barrier in the design of a culturally relevant PA intervention. A qualitative study design was used. Data were collected from the focus groups comprising 23 sedentary and obese AA women (median age = 38.1 years, median body mass index = 39.8 kg/m2). Content analysis was used to analyze these focus group data. Three key themes emerged from the qualitative narratives of participants: (1) impact of perspiration on hair and hairstyle maintenance, (2) image and social comparisons, and (3) solutions to overcome hair-related barriers to PA. For impact of perspiration and hairstyle maintenance, participants described how perspiring while engaging in PA negatively impacts many of their hairstyles. Participants further discussed how time and monetary burdens associated with PA-related hairstyle maintenance further contributed to this issue. Findings for the theme of image and social comparison focused on how an AA woman’s hairstyle is an important part of the image and the social comparisons made by non-AAs regarding the hairstyles and maintenance practices of AA women. For solutions to hairstyle maintenance barriers, participant described a variety of potential styling techniques that may help alleviate PA-related maintenance concerns, including braids, locks, and natural hairstyles. However, no styling technique was uniformly endorsed by all study participants. Findings highlight the significance of hair in the AA community and provide further insight on appropriate intervention design strategies to overcome this sociocultural barrier to PA. Future research is needed to corroborate and further expand on our findings.
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