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21. What effects has this lunchtime workout program had on you?
a. How does it make you feel?
22. Have there been any challenges to participating? What are they?
23. To what extent have you been able to mitigate those challenges? How have you done it?
24. Does it matter to you if students participate in your workout?
25. If you could run things at PCU for a month and wanted to gain more participants in the
lunchtime workout program, what would be some ways to gather more participants? Who
would you recruit to sponsor this?
26. If another department wanted to start something similar to Get Fit, what advice would
you give them?
27. What factors do you think are most important to the success of the Get Fit program? Why
does it work?
28. If you could change anything about Get Fit to improve it, what would that look like to
you?
29. Do you use a fitness tracking app? Yes/NO
a. (If Yes?) Does that influence your decision to participate in Get Fit?
30. Is there anything else that you feel we have not talked about that is important to know?
Thank you again for taking the time to talk to me today. Your insights really help me grow my
understanding of employee physical activity at PCU, and I appreciate you sharing them with me.
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 | 180 21. What effects has this lunchtime workout program had on you? a. How does it make you feel? 22. Have there been any challenges to participating? What are they? 23. To what extent have you been able to mitigate those challenges? How have you done it? 24. Does it matter to you if students participate in your workout? 25. If you could run things at PCU for a month and wanted to gain more participants in the lunchtime workout program, what would be some ways to gather more participants? Who would you recruit to sponsor this? 26. If another department wanted to start something similar to Get Fit, what advice would you give them? 27. What factors do you think are most important to the success of the Get Fit program? Why does it work? 28. If you could change anything about Get Fit to improve it, what would that look like to you? 29. Do you use a fitness tracking app? Yes/NO a. (If Yes?) Does that influence your decision to participate in Get Fit? 30. Is there anything else that you feel we have not talked about that is important to know? Thank you again for taking the time to talk to me today. Your insights really help me grow my understanding of employee physical activity at PCU, and I appreciate you sharing them with me. |
