Publications by authors named "Zoila Sanchez"
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- The study investigated the impact of self-efficacy on physical activity, aerobic fitness, and body composition in rural children aged 11 to 13, amidst rising physical inactivity rates.
- Weak positive correlations were found between self-efficacy, physical activity, and aerobic fitness, while a weak inverse relationship was noted with body mass index.
- Although the school-based pedometer intervention did not show statistically significant results, the intervention group demonstrated greater improvements in self-efficacy, aerobic fitness, and body composition measurements.
Understanding contemporary socio-cultural stressors may assist educational, clinical and policy-level health promotion efforts. This study presents descriptive findings on a new measure, the border community and immigration stress scale. The data were from two community surveys as part of community based participatory projects conducted in the Southwestern US border region.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnderrepresentation of minority faculty in schools of nursing is well reported. Recently, there have been multiple initiatives from both public and private sectors to alleviate the shortage of minority faculty. This article describes how the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) College of Nursing took advantage of one such initiative: the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Minority Faculty Fellowship Program (MFFP) grant.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Relatively few transplant recipients participate in regular physical activity. There is a paucity of information regarding barriers and facilitators to physical activity in kidney transplant recipients.
Objective: To investigate factors that transplant recipients perceive as barriers and facilitators to physical activity and whether these barriers and facilitators differ on the basis of transplant patients' reported level of physical activity.
Context: Obesity frequently occurs following kidney transplantation and is of concern because of the associated risk for cardiovascular complications.
Objective: To examine weight gain over the first year after kidney transplantation to determine associations with gender, ethnicity, and cardiovascular risk factors.
Design: A retrospective analysis was completed on patients who had received transplants between January 1998 and January 2002 and who had matching baseline and 1-year follow-up data and a functional graft.