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The Importance Assigned by Pregnant Women to the Quality Characteristics of Fitness Instructors. A Qualitative Study
INTRODUCTION: The exercise professional’s role is to provide proper exercise prescription and selection, regular feedback, positive reinforcement, and behavioral strategies to enhance adherence. Thus, knowing the preferences of the consumers will enhance pedagogical skills. OBJECTIVE: To characteriz...
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author | Fernandes de Carvalho, Marta Franco, Susana Simões, Vera Ramos, Liliana Santos-Rocha, Rita |
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description | INTRODUCTION: The exercise professional’s role is to provide proper exercise prescription and selection, regular feedback, positive reinforcement, and behavioral strategies to enhance adherence. Thus, knowing the preferences of the consumers will enhance pedagogical skills. OBJECTIVE: To characterize pregnant women’s preferences regarding the fitness instructor’s quality characteristics in specific group exercise sessions for this population. METHODS: A qualitative study was conducted in 2021. The Fitness Instructor Quality Questionnaire was applied to 29 pregnant women engaged in prenatal group fitness classes, aged between 24 and 48 years. This questionnaire includes 25 items, grouped in two dimensions, scored with a Likert scale with 7 levels of importance (1 = not at all important; 7 = extremely important). Descriptive statistics were used to characterize pregnant women’s opinion (mean, standard deviation, minimum and maximum). RESULTS: The global average of items was 6.41, showing that pregnant women give importance to the Quality of the fitness instructor. Relational Quality has the highest average (6.48), close to Pedagogical-Technical Quality dimension (6.34). The most important items for pregnant women were Ethics (6.76), Communication (6.72), and Availability, Motivation, and Punctuality (6.69). The less important items were Musical Domain (5.24), Image (5.69), and Physical Fitness (5.86). CONCLUSION: Pregnant women give great importance to the Quality of the fitness instructor, although they value some indicators more than others, as identified in other studies in different populations. Considering the results of this study, it can be recommended that fitness instructors delivering prenatal exercise programs should address these factors related to Quality. It can be emphasized that the fitness instructor should have an intervention that shows willingness to listen to pregnant women, allows them time to perform the exercises, encourages them to practice, without overestimating aspects related to image or fitness level. |
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spelling | pubmed-98880102023-02-01 The Importance Assigned by Pregnant Women to the Quality Characteristics of Fitness Instructors. A Qualitative Study Fernandes de Carvalho, Marta Franco, Susana Simões, Vera Ramos, Liliana Santos-Rocha, Rita J Multidiscip Healthc Original Research INTRODUCTION: The exercise professional’s role is to provide proper exercise prescription and selection, regular feedback, positive reinforcement, and behavioral strategies to enhance adherence. Thus, knowing the preferences of the consumers will enhance pedagogical skills. OBJECTIVE: To characterize pregnant women’s preferences regarding the fitness instructor’s quality characteristics in specific group exercise sessions for this population. METHODS: A qualitative study was conducted in 2021. The Fitness Instructor Quality Questionnaire was applied to 29 pregnant women engaged in prenatal group fitness classes, aged between 24 and 48 years. This questionnaire includes 25 items, grouped in two dimensions, scored with a Likert scale with 7 levels of importance (1 = not at all important; 7 = extremely important). Descriptive statistics were used to characterize pregnant women’s opinion (mean, standard deviation, minimum and maximum). RESULTS: The global average of items was 6.41, showing that pregnant women give importance to the Quality of the fitness instructor. Relational Quality has the highest average (6.48), close to Pedagogical-Technical Quality dimension (6.34). The most important items for pregnant women were Ethics (6.76), Communication (6.72), and Availability, Motivation, and Punctuality (6.69). The less important items were Musical Domain (5.24), Image (5.69), and Physical Fitness (5.86). CONCLUSION: Pregnant women give great importance to the Quality of the fitness instructor, although they value some indicators more than others, as identified in other studies in different populations. Considering the results of this study, it can be recommended that fitness instructors delivering prenatal exercise programs should address these factors related to Quality. It can be emphasized that the fitness instructor should have an intervention that shows willingness to listen to pregnant women, allows them time to perform the exercises, encourages them to practice, without overestimating aspects related to image or fitness level. Dove 2023-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9888010/ /pubmed/36733690 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S293693 Text en © 2023 Fernandes de Carvalho et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) ). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Fernandes de Carvalho, Marta Franco, Susana Simões, Vera Ramos, Liliana Santos-Rocha, Rita The Importance Assigned by Pregnant Women to the Quality Characteristics of Fitness Instructors. A Qualitative Study |
title | The Importance Assigned by Pregnant Women to the Quality Characteristics of Fitness Instructors. A Qualitative Study |
title_full | The Importance Assigned by Pregnant Women to the Quality Characteristics of Fitness Instructors. A Qualitative Study |
title_fullStr | The Importance Assigned by Pregnant Women to the Quality Characteristics of Fitness Instructors. A Qualitative Study |
title_full_unstemmed | The Importance Assigned by Pregnant Women to the Quality Characteristics of Fitness Instructors. A Qualitative Study |
title_short | The Importance Assigned by Pregnant Women to the Quality Characteristics of Fitness Instructors. A Qualitative Study |
title_sort | importance assigned by pregnant women to the quality characteristics of fitness instructors. a qualitative study |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9888010/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36733690 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S293693 |
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