School of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182-7251, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 Nov 18;15(11):2581. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15112581.
Previous research has found churches to be effective at delivering physical activity (PA) programs to their congregants. Mosques, however, have not been extensively studied. Therefore, we quantified U.S. Islamic centers' advertisement of PA programming and examined their programming characteristics. We conducted a content analysis of the websites of 773 eligible Islamic centers of which 206 centers in 32 states advertised PA programming. We categorized PA by program type: camping, fitness classes, sports, youth programs, and irregular offerings. We calculated descriptive statistics by program type for specific activity, frequency/duration/volume, participant/instructor sex, and instructor religion. Youth group (44%) and sports (23%) programs were most and least frequently advertised, respectively. Most centers (66%) that posted information on PA programming advertised only one program type. Men and Muslims taught most activities. Most activities-except for fitness classes-were advertised to a male audience. Islamic centers should offer and advertise additional PA programming-especially for women-and better utilize their websites for promoting such programming. Individual Islamic centers and Islamic- and non-religion based public health agencies can utilize our findings to fashion future PA offerings.
先前的研究发现，教堂在向其会众提供体育活动（PA）项目方面非常有效。然而，清真寺并没有被广泛研究。因此，我们量化了美国伊斯兰中心宣传 PA 项目的情况，并研究了它们的项目特点。我们对 773 个符合条件的伊斯兰中心的网站进行了内容分析，其中 32 个州的 206 个中心宣传了 PA 项目。我们根据项目类型对 PA 进行了分类：露营、健身班、运动、青年项目和不定期活动。我们按特定活动、频率/持续时间/量、参与者/教练性别和教练宗教对不同类型的项目进行了描述性统计。青年团体（44%）和运动（23%）项目是最常和最少宣传的项目，分别。大多数发布 PA 项目信息的中心（66%）只宣传一种项目类型。男性和穆斯林教授大多数活动。大多数活动（健身班除外）都是针对男性受众宣传的。伊斯兰中心应该提供和宣传更多的 PA 项目——尤其是针对女性的项目——并更好地利用其网站来推广此类项目。个别伊斯兰中心和基于伊斯兰教和非宗教的公共卫生机构可以利用我们的研究结果来制定未来的 PA 项目。
