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Table 5
Survey Respondents’ Methods of Learning About the Get Fit Program
How Did You Hear About Get Fit? Number of
Responses
Percentage of Respondents
Friend/Coworker 20 83%
CLS Email About the Program 9 38%
CLS Advertisement for the Program 2 8%
Saw a Session Underway and Inquired 2 8%
Boss/Manager/Supervisor 2 8%
Department/Office Announcement 2 8%
Internet Search 0 0%
Other (Please Describe) 0 0%
Participants were asked to share their factual knowledge about available workplace
physical activity options at PCU, as well as to discuss how they learned about and began
participating in Get Fit. Four of the six participants (66%) learned about Get Fit through
coworkers or colleagues, while two (33%) learned through an email announcement. All six
interview participants were able to name a variety of available PCU exercise options. However,
participants expressed uncertainty about details including the cost of PCU activities and whether
staff discounts were provided. Other knowledge barriers to participation in PCU programs
included a lack of easily accessible and reliable information about programs and when they are
offered. By contrast, knowledge of the consistency and reliability of the Get Fit schedule and
programming emerged as an influence of importance to employee participation. Additionally,
knowledge of what the Get Fit program would be like and who participated emerged as a
knowledge influence that impacted motivation.
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 | 78 Table 5 Survey Respondents’ Methods of Learning About the Get Fit Program How Did You Hear About Get Fit? Number of Responses Percentage of Respondents Friend/Coworker 20 83% CLS Email About the Program 9 38% CLS Advertisement for the Program 2 8% Saw a Session Underway and Inquired 2 8% Boss/Manager/Supervisor 2 8% Department/Office Announcement 2 8% Internet Search 0 0% Other (Please Describe) 0 0% Participants were asked to share their factual knowledge about available workplace physical activity options at PCU, as well as to discuss how they learned about and began participating in Get Fit. Four of the six participants (66%) learned about Get Fit through coworkers or colleagues, while two (33%) learned through an email announcement. All six interview participants were able to name a variety of available PCU exercise options. However, participants expressed uncertainty about details including the cost of PCU activities and whether staff discounts were provided. Other knowledge barriers to participation in PCU programs included a lack of easily accessible and reliable information about programs and when they are offered. By contrast, knowledge of the consistency and reliability of the Get Fit schedule and programming emerged as an influence of importance to employee participation. Additionally, knowledge of what the Get Fit program would be like and who participated emerged as a knowledge influence that impacted motivation. |
