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Adolescent girls' experiences in the Go Girls! group-based lifestyle mentoring program
A Justine Dowd1, Samantha M Harden2, Mark R Beauchamp3
1School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. justine.dowd@ubc.ca.
Objective:
To explore the experience of being in the Go Girls! program from the perspective of its participants.
Methods:
Drawing from a social constructivist approach, this study consisted of semi-structured interviews conducted with 12 purposively sampled Go Girls! participants.
Results:
The results provided evidence for the emergence of 2 higher-order themes that subsume 7 lower-order themes and 27 categories that relate to the general components of the program and program outcomes associated with participating in the program.
Conclusions:
Participants in the Go Girls! program reported enjoying the program, experiencing changes in important health-enhancing cognitions and behaviors and developing meaningful relationships with program mentors and other program participants.
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