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Fysisk aktivitet och etniska minoriteter ? Faktorer som påverkar fysisk aktivitet bland medelålders och äldre personer


BACKGROUND: The relationship between physical activity and health versusphysical inactivity and poor health are well known. Ethnic minorities are generallyless physically active than the residence country's majority population andgenerally have a poorer health status. The study has a health promotion perspective.PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to describe factors that influencephysical activity among middle-aged and older persons, belonging to an ethnicminority. METHOD: The method used to answer the purpose is a literature-basedstudy. The searching for literature has been carried out in a systematic way.Scientific articles to base the results on, has been gathered from various databases.Included articles were analyzed with a qualitative content analysis and identifiedsimilarities and differences in the content were divided into themes and categories.RESULTS: Recurrent themes in the literature, that influence physical activity inmiddle-aged and older people that belong to an ethnic minority, was support, healthand illness, external factors, internal factors, community related and socioeconomicfactors and ignorance and beliefs. DISCUSSION: The subject is scarcely exploredand results of the study have been compared with research on physical activity andmiddle-aged and older people who do not belong to an ethnic minority. The resultsof the study are consistent with these studies, but the cultural aspects that arepresent in the result, were not possible to compare with previously publishedresearch. The study has practical relevance and can be used as a base for futurehealth promotion interventions that intend to affect the physical activity amongmiddle-aged and older people that belong to an ethnic minority. CONCLUSION:Found results can be seen as reasonable based on comparable literature and did notdiffer significantly from studies that investigate middle-aged and older people whodo not belong to any ethnic minority.

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Linnea Pontusson

Lärosäte och institution

Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för medicin

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