"It's not time for us to sit down yet": how group exercise programs can motivate physical activity and overcome barriers in inactive older adults.

Purpose: Physical activity and exercise are critical for older adults' physical and mental health. The purpose of this qualitative study was to richly capture the motivators of and barriers to engaging in physical activity in previously inactive older adults who participated in a three-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT) of eight-week group exercise interventions.

Methods: We conducted a qualitative content analysis of individual interviews with fifteen participants-five from each study arm: strength training, walking, and inactive control.

Perspectives of patients with chronic pain about a pain science education video.

Purpose: Patients have responded in variable ways to pain science education about the psychosocial correlates of pain. To improve the effectiveness of pain education approaches, this study qualitatively explored participants' perceptions of and responses to pain science education.

Methods: We conducted a qualitative content analysis of interviews with fifteen, adult patients (73.

Listening to Patients' Voices: Workarounds Patients Use to Construct Pain Intensity Ratings.

This study analyzed patients' perspectives about a measure of current, usual, and extreme pain and a measure of activity-related pain. Thirty-one patients with osteoarthritis participated in focus groups. Researchers completed thematic analysis of transcripts using coding software and an inductive approach.

Journeying to the White Coat Ceremony: A description of the people, situations and experiences that inform student visions of the physician they hope to become.

Little is known about the experiences that influence entering medical students' internal concepts of themselves as future physicians. During orientation to medical school, students were asked to write stories in response to the cue, "Tell a story about a person or experience that inspired you to consider a career of service in medicine." Qualitative methodology was employed to analyze 190 student stories.