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The Qualtrics web application also formatted surveys for readability and ease of use on mobile
phones and tablets, which allowed respondents to complete the survey at their convenience.
(Robinson & Firth Leonard, 2019). Survey respondents spent an average of 8.5 minutes
completing the survey.
Interviews
Interview Protocol
The interview portion of the qualitative methods section used semi-structured, one-on-one
interviews. An interview guide was developed to keep questions consistent across
participants (Patton, 2002), but the semi-structured aspect allowed participants and the researcher
to delve into topics or areas of interest that were not found on the interview guide. This enabled
discussion of topics the researcher did not consider based on the literature review that proved
relevant to informing her understanding of the knowledge, motivation, and organizational
influences of Get Fit participants. The interview guide included questions regarding behavior,
knowledge, feelings, and sensory data to elicit participant responses about their lived experiences
participating in an employee physical activity program (Patton, 2002). In the sequence of
questions, initial factual data served as a warmup for the interview, but the main focus of the
interview section was the motivational and organizational influences that impact Get Fit
participation. The interview guide can be found in Appendix C.
Interview Procedures
The researcher solicited all survey respondents who indicated a willingness to be
interviewed to participate via follow-up email. The follow-up email included a link to a web-based
calendar application that allowed participants to schedule a time of their choosing in which
to be interviewed from within a two-week time frame. Additionally, the researcher’s email
message included the option for respondents to contact her if none of the available times were
Object Description
| Title | Physical activity interventions to reduce rates of sedentary behavior among university employees: a promising practice study |
| Author | DeFrank, Ginny Mary |
| Author email | ginnydefrank@gmail.com;defrank@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Organizational Change and Leadership (On Line) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2020-06-19 |
| Date submitted | 2020-08-11 |
| Date approved | 2020-08-11 |
| Restricted until | 2020-08-11 |
| Date published | 2020-08-11 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Malloy, Courtney |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Canny, Eric Stowe, Kathy |
| Abstract | The purpose of this study was to understand factors influencing employee participation in a university-offered physical activity program to inform recommendations for other institutions of higher education seeking to address high rates of university employee sedentary behavior with physical activity programming. The instructor-led program was held four times per week beginning at noon each day and lasted one hour in duration on a university campus in the western United States. The program, which was offered at no cost to employees, typically served 20-30 participants each week. The Clark and Estes Gap Analytic Framework (2008) was employed to assess relevant knowledge, motivation, and organizational influences affecting university employee engagement with the physical activity program. The study utilized a convergent parallel mixed methods design, engaging 24 university employees by means of a fifty-four-item quantitative survey. Six survey respondents also participated in interviews. Research findings revealed the importance of the interplay of employee factual and metacognitive knowledge, as well as motivation influences including self-efficacy and expectancy value within the organization’s cultural models and settings. Recommendations for other institutions seeking to engage employees in physical activity were informed by the findings and supported by a review of literature. Recommendations include the use of training, communication strategies, information guides, modeling, and opportunities for reflection to meet employee knowledge and motivational needs. Evaluating and changing organizational policies, cultural values, and existing physical activity programming was recommended to ensure employees understand an organization’s support for participation in physical activity. Additionally, implications for practice involved a focus on the role of instructors and the development of communities of continuity to support and improve rates of university employee engagement in physical activity during the workday. |
| Keyword | sedentary behavior; physical activity; workplace physical activity; physical activity intervention; university physical activity; exercise |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | DeFrank, Ginny Mary |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-DeFrankGin-8921.pdf |
| Archival file | Volume13/etd-DeFrankGin-8921.pdf |
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| Full text | 66 The Qualtrics web application also formatted surveys for readability and ease of use on mobile phones and tablets, which allowed respondents to complete the survey at their convenience. (Robinson & Firth Leonard, 2019). Survey respondents spent an average of 8.5 minutes completing the survey. Interviews Interview Protocol The interview portion of the qualitative methods section used semi-structured, one-on-one interviews. An interview guide was developed to keep questions consistent across participants (Patton, 2002), but the semi-structured aspect allowed participants and the researcher to delve into topics or areas of interest that were not found on the interview guide. This enabled discussion of topics the researcher did not consider based on the literature review that proved relevant to informing her understanding of the knowledge, motivation, and organizational influences of Get Fit participants. The interview guide included questions regarding behavior, knowledge, feelings, and sensory data to elicit participant responses about their lived experiences participating in an employee physical activity program (Patton, 2002). In the sequence of questions, initial factual data served as a warmup for the interview, but the main focus of the interview section was the motivational and organizational influences that impact Get Fit participation. The interview guide can be found in Appendix C. Interview Procedures The researcher solicited all survey respondents who indicated a willingness to be interviewed to participate via follow-up email. The follow-up email included a link to a web-based calendar application that allowed participants to schedule a time of their choosing in which to be interviewed from within a two-week time frame. Additionally, the researcher’s email message included the option for respondents to contact her if none of the available times were |
