Characterizing Beliefs about Stroke and Walking for Exercise among Seniors from Four Racial/Ethnic Minority Communities.

ABSTRACT: We described and compared seniors' stroke-related health beliefs among four racial/ethnic communities to inform a culturally-tailored stroke prevention walking intervention. Specific attention was paid to how seniors combined pathophysiology-based biomedical beliefs with non-biomedical beliefs. We conducted twelve language-concordant, structured focus groups with African American, Chinese American, Korean American, and Latino seniors aged 60 years and older with a history of hypertension (n = 132) to assess stroke-related health beliefs. Participants were asked their beliefs about stroke mechanism and prevention strategies in addition to questions corresponding to four constructs from the Health Belief Model: perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, and benefits and barriers to walkin

SUBMITTER: Chang E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7672710 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature