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Kidney failure and hemodialysis are associated with numerous physical and psychological symptoms and complications, some of which can be reduced or eliminated by adequate exercise. Dialysis patients, however, tend to be quite sedentary on average, which can further complicate their physical and mental health. The goal of this study was to investigate perceptions of barriers and motivators for exercise among hemodialysis patients. It was hypothesized that increased barriers would be associated with decreased exercise, and increased motivators would be associated with increased exercise. The results indicated that both motivators and barriers were associated with exercise behavior, with motivators being more salient. Contrary to what has been previously postulated, lack of motivation, as opposed to health-related impairment, appears to be the primary factor impeding dialysis patient exercise practices.

ABSTRACT Social Constructionist inquiry offers a perspective for understanding relationships among Chinese American family members, and a framework for carrying out therapeutic strategies. Traditionally, clinicians worked with Chinese families from a logical-positivist paradigm. The paradigm emphasizes absolute knowledge, therapist as expert, deficits in the family and change due to therapeutic intervention. Social constructionist inquiry emphasizes how the family uses language in talking about a situation. It also is concerned with evolution of the family's story, therapist as collaborator, family strengths and change due to a revision in the family's story about its experience. Ethnography and Multivocal Ethnography, grounded in social constructionist inquiry, are two approaches emphasizing interviewing questions in creating a context where families can tell their stories and work to revise the way experience is understood and discussed. The emphasis is not on the family being the problem, but how the family talks about a situation.

Journal Article The Child and His Home Get access Elizabeth Craig, Elizabeth Craig The New England Home for Little Wanderers, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Cheney C. Jones Cheney C. Jones The New England Home for Little Wanderers, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 16, Issue 1, October 1937, Pages 140–143, https://doi.org/10.2307/2571070 Published: 01 October 1937