A study of expressed barriers, and their comparative strengths, to conducting a health ministry in selected seventh-day Adventist churches in Idaho, Oregon and Texas

The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of geographic location, exposure to a health education program, and church position (pastor or layperson) on ten expressed barriers to conducting a health ministry in local Seventh-day Adventist churches. A paired comparison instrument, filled out by 217 church members in the states of Idaho, Oregon, and Texas, provided the rank order of the barriers. It was hypothesized that there would be no significant difference in the selected barriers between the groups tested, nor in the relative strength of each barrier within the groups tested. Results were obtained by utilizing two methods. Kendall's coefficient of concordance, the Friedman ANOVA for correlation, and Spearman's Correlation of Coefficients were used for statistical analyses, while Thurstone's (1927) method of tabulation provided a numerical analysis. All null hypotheses were accepted.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Health Education

Grantor

Texas Woman's University

Year dc:date.issued

1987

Author dc:creator

• Jamison, Robert

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Tandy, Ruth

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Meyers, Bettye
• Marshall, David, Ph. D.
• Shipley, Roger

• Health education programs in church
• Health promotion
• Disease prevention
• Education

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11274/9175

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:twu-ir.tdl.org:11274/9175