An Assessment of UBC’s Recreation Women’s Only Fitness Hours Program
department or school: Education, Faculty of
department or school: Kinesiology, School of
data provider: DSpace
contributor: University of British Columbia. School of Kinesiology
contributor: University of British Columbia. Student Recreation Centre
contributor: University of British Columbia. Campus and Community Planning
creator: Song, Shannon
creator: Toye, Janessa
creator: Chartrand, Alaine
creator: Schlappner, Kaitlyn
issued: 2022-10-26T19:46:18Z
issued: 2022-04-12
description: Currently, UBC Recreation is only offering Women’s Only Fitness Hours (WOFH) 9 hours per week out of the 96.5 hours per week that the ARC gym space operates for, despite self-identifying women making up 55.8% of the UBC community’s population (University of British Columbia, 2021). WOFH is a program that offers self-identifying women designated times in which they are able to participate in physical activity (PA) in a safe and private environment (University of British Columbia, 2022b). WOFH was designed to provide women the confidence and empowerment they need to implement PA into their everyday routine (University of British Columbia, 2022b) without the fear that many mixed-gender gyms provide. Therefore, the purpose of our project was to examine the effectiveness of the communication of WOFH to the targeted community as well as to improve awareness by utilising feedback from survey participants and the existing literature. All of the survey participants (n = 119) recruited are self-identifying women currently enrolled as either an undergraduate or a graduate student at UBC Vancouver. Participants were directed to a short Qualtrics survey in which they consented to participating, then answered a variety of multiple choice, Likert-type and open-ended questions. Surveys were distributed through social media, including Facebook groups and Instagram stories over a span of two weeks. One Facebook group, in particular, targeted a specific UBC student population which may have played a large role in contributing to this study’s successful participant count – UBC Sororities. Following data collection, data analysis took place. This research highlighted several key findings including: the population of students aware of WOFH; of those aware, the number of students who have attended WOFH; reasons for continued participation, satisfaction ratings for WOFH experiences; gauged interest in attending WOFH; and gauged perspectives on UBC Recreation’s WOFH in relation to other wom…
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note: An Assessment of UBC’s Recreation Women’s Only Fitness Hours Program Prepared by: Shannon Song, Janessa Toye, Alaine Chartrand and Kaitlyn Schlappner Prepared for: KIN 464: Health Promotion and Physical Activity Course Code: KIN 464 University of British Columbia Date: 12 April 2022 Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS Sustainability Program provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student research project and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore, readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Sustainability Program representative about the current status of the subject matter of a report”. University of British Columbia Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (SEEDS) Sustainability Program Student Research Report 1 An Assessment of UBC’s Recreation Women’s Only Fitness Hours Program Shannon Song, Janessa Toye, Alaine Chartrand and Kaitlyn Schlappner School of Kinesiology, the University of British Columbia KIN 464: Health Promotion and Physical Activity Dr. Negin Riazi April 12, 2022 2 Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Literature Review 4 Methods 8 Data Collection 8 Participants 10 Research Design 11 Procedures 12 Results 13 Descriptive Statistics 13 Descriptive Qualitative Analysis 16 Discussion 17 Recommendations 19 Appendix A: Survey 27 Appendix B: Consent Form 33 Appendix C: Program Information 36 Appendix D: Social Media Recruitment Materials 37 Appendix E: Survey Results 38 Appendix F: Poster 58 3 Executive Summary Currently, UBC Recreation is only offering Women’s Only Fitness Hours (WOFH) 9 hours per week out of the 96.5 hours per week that the ARC gym space operates for, despite self-identifying women making up 55.8% of the UBC communit…
has type: Report
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0421605
language: eng
peer review status: Unreviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Undergraduate
is part of: UBC Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (SEEDS) Student Report
is part of: University of British Columbia. KIN 464
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/83053